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Comment by tommoor | Hacker News Reader

When a project appears on HN that's identical to one you're working on… always a sad moment.

https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

Anyway, If you're interested in an open source team wiki built on a very similar editor then check out the underling project, https://github.com/outline/outline

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It means free early feedback. For example I'm working on a JavaScript based editor like Atom and vscode, and when I announce it will be very fast and it will be possible to edit GB sized files without any lag. And it will be very thin, less then 10 MB in size. And use less then 100 MB of memory. If it wasn't for the other similar projects I would have no idea about these requirements.

I don’t want to sound like a jerk, but you didn’t know people like things to be fast and memory efficient before the dumpster fire collection of web view “code editors” became popular?

I used to worry too back when I only had a few MB. But now I have several GB's of memory on my dev machine. Also I have not heard people complain about Ecipse et-al, but when it comes to the web and JavaScript it has to be fast, or it will be "slow because of JavaScript".

People definitely complain about Eclipse and Intellij being slow, but you might not notice this unless you work in a java shop.

I have 16GB of memory, and I use a java IDE. It uses more memory than the javascript toy editors do, but it does so much more.

If you just want a text editor, there are dozens of native ones for each platform that don’t require java or javascript and are fast.

It’s when you want stuff like advanced code intel, refactoring, etc that the likes of JetBrains products make the memory usage a good trade off.

Using a boat load of ram to render a text file slowly with no more features than textmate or kedit or what have you “because electron” is fucking stupid.

I kind of can relate, as my last project was finished just after the "Run SQL on CSV and TSV" submission popped up, and my project was the same thing but for XML. So have a star (:

Also, I like the way your dashboard looks like (judging by the screenshot on your website).

I hope you'll share it anyway. I enjoyed working on this in school. My thesis advisor worked on a couple papers on your very topic, but as far as I know, nothing was ever turned into a product: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6d34/878442dfde070ada9846fb...

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