Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
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Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
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Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#2This is an electron app.
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#3This is cool but it makes me wonder about all of the electron apps that are coming out. Is there something more efficient that could do the same? Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#4This is cool but it makes me wonder about all of the electron apps that are coming out. Is there something more efficient that could do the same? Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?
> Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?
Because the people who are building and releasing these Electron apps are not interested to learn GTK/Qt; simple as that. Same reason why JavaScript is so "popular" because it's easy [1] to learn and — with the help of these other projects, Electron just being one of them — it becomes very easy to develop "cross-platform" applications.
Imagine being a 12 years old interested to become a desktop application developer, and then someone comes and gives you the option to spend several hours learning GTK/Qt with C++/Python, and then another person gives them the option to learn JavaScript (a language that is daily giving something to talk about) with Electron, what would be your choice?
[1] If you disregard all the ambiguity of the language.
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#5Is the editor really a problem to solve for Markdown? Philosophically I regard Markdown as a language in the text-only-editor-unimportant family.
I recently built a (simple, only works for me) filter for pandoc that allows for formulas in Markdown tables. org-mode features is what Markdown is missing, but without the marriage to the editor.
At the same time: an editor like this makes Markdown more accessible for non-hackers, which is always good.
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#6Too bad it's electron. I'm working on a just-for-fun markdown editor using GtkSourceView and GtkWebkit and, despite a slight learning curve getting familiar with gtk, it's been a pleasure to work on. Ugh...electron? Really??
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#7Too bad it's electron. I'm working on a just-for-fun markdown editor using GtkSourceView and GtkWebkit and, despite a slight learning curve getting familiar with gtk, it's been a pleasure to work on. Ugh...electron? Really??
These kinds of dismissive comments make me wonder if the writer ever created anything of substance in their life.
For example, notice how this project is actually accessible for people to try today. Building something in the privacy of localhost is pretty worthless if you think it equips you with the power of judgement. That's the easiest part of building something. Congratulations on your unreleased hobby project that doesn't use Electron.
Let's keep this sort of comment off HN. You'll notice it only squanders interesting discussion from the pool.
In fact, that it's built with Electron suggests that the core can be factored out into a library that you can embed in a website or another project, and that's great.
So, please, spare us next time.
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#8Anyone know of a markdown editor that has quick, notational velocity style file search/creation and just saves files to the hard disk? (So I can sync the directory via Dropbox or Google drive myself)
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#9This is cool but it makes me wonder about all of the electron apps that are coming out. Is there something more efficient that could do the same? Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?
"More efficient" how? At saving developer time? At producing shippable end products? At debugging? Will using GTK result in a better product that increases the end-user's "efficiency" more? Or will it really result in the developer shipping a product with 1/10th the features, or nothing at all?
Re: Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform
#10This looks really awesome! I really wish I could use it as a library and embed it into my SaaS app. Is there a way to extract just the rendering functionality and add it to a website?