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This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.

Ah yes, <title>[object Object]</title>

Or if they wrote to a database on change and read on every cycle. For correctness, blockchain may be suitable.

Last week there was an article about how a tool that monitor WhatsApp contacts' online status can be used to stalk. Because I was bored I did a DDG search, and the top result was a Github repo of a Chrome extension that promised such monitoring. The readme was in broken English and hat lots of emojis, it had 500+ commits so I thought "Must be an active developer". Looking through the commits, the majority of them were "Changed readme" with single line changes to the readme file...

I was aghast when I read this comment until I realized it was sarcasm, and then I got a good laugh thinking about the look I still had on my face. It made me wonder... how many people in any given echo chamber are simply fanning the fire due to a misunderstanding? Probably a lot.

Ah yes, trade a small, easily fixed, bug for a life-time of JS induced jank. No thank you.

The parent comment meant it as sarcasm.

Poe strikes again.

sigh Well, I certainly shot myself in the foot that time. Thank you Sergio for slapping some sense into me.

I mean, React Native is not a bad choice for a "new notepad", similar to how they did with the calculator. It can even get the "Microsoft OpenSource Project" seal. See ReactXP[1] a library for React Native from Microsoft

Speaking about the calculator app, did you know it is OpenSource[2]? You can only compile to windows as of now though

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp

[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

The new calculator is written with UWP and C++, right? I'm failing to see the similarity.

The similarity is just the revamp in a old already established UI, nothing to do with React specifically

> This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.

Why? I suppose if your render() function had something like

    showAstrix = this.state.editorBuffer != this.state.savedBuffer

then it wouldn't be subject to the bug, but the performance would be terrible if you're editing a large file. To get good performance you'd need to use a flag and update it accordingly, which will subject you to the same bug.

You do have me wondering now how long it takes to compare large strings. DDR4-3200 has a peak transfer rate of 25.6 GB/s. So if you were editing a ridiculously large 1 GB text file, you could only make that comparison ~12.8 times per second, and that's assuming the CPU could compare data that fast.

It seems like some people are a little too serious for the internet today...

Can’t tell if serious...

A rewrite in Rust would be better tbph.

Or if it were implemented in my planned record-oriented logic language, a mix of COBOL and Coq called CoqBOL.

Okay that is hilarious

I would drop everything and try to compromise a nested dependency

Why not Electron?

Why not Squeak or Oberon?

Why not Common Lisp and Mcclim?

Or TkInter in python?

Or Cloyster, Landorus, or Minior?

Or just pure CSS.

ill give the short answer to this. millions depend on notepad. a small change , can have devastating effects. What if the editor doesn't respond to the same WM_XYZMESSAGE? what if your enterprise depends on an obscure app that modifies notepad.

So no, best option create a new editor, but there are 1000 editors out there.

look at sublime text 4.. its pure opengl. fast, and epic done right.

The parent comment was definitely a sarcasm. I am not sure if yours is.

For a while I did a job where I had need for a text editor but wasn't allowed to install my own programs on my work computer. I tried using Notepad for a bit but switched to Code Writer and found it an acceptable solution. It seemed to me at the time Microsoft was considering that their 'modern' Notepad alternative(?). I haven't seen much about it since though.

Won't somebody please think of backcompat with the Notepad raytracer?![1]

[1] http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notep...

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