| ▲ | JdeBP 4 days ago | |
This article is a pile of rubbish from top to toe. Starting with the conflation of TUI with CLI, and ending with the claim that one has to extract it from an archive afresh "each time you want to use it". Microsoft hasn't designed a new text editor to "avoid VIM memes". It has re-implemented its old EDIT editor, which was a DOS program with a PIF on Windows NT, and which came out with MS-DOS 5 in 1991. There weren't silly "VIM memes" in 1991. Indeed, Stevie had barely turned into VIM in 1991. The original announcement was discussed on Hacker News about a month ago. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529 And the idea that "Windows devs are forced to fire up Notepad" is just risible. Even by 1991 there was a wide array of text editors available in the Microsoft world. EDIT was over half a decade late to the party. DR-DOS had had EDITOR for a while. And if memory serves E and T2 were already in IBM's PC-DOS and OS/2. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041533 It was pointed out back in 1991 that it was late to the party. Quite how someone from the world of Ubuntu can think that there are no text editors in the Windows world in 2025 apart from Notepad and so developers are "forced", its word, to use it, boggles the mind. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44037559 Anyone who actually does Windows development, and has probably discussed with other developers the merits of the various editors available, from MobaEdit through EditPad, WordPad, Brief, CodeWriter, and many others to Notepad++, would question the apparently zero knowledge that has informed this piece. | ||
| ▲ | tialaramex a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
Although there are vim memes, the whole "Oh no, I'm trapped in the editor" problem with modal editors is certainly there for vi which begins in the 1970s. By 1994 when I was first using vi, (not vim) the rather faded "cheat sheet" I was handed already had remarks about the need to teach beginners how to leave the editor. I think I went years writing :q! which isn't the fastest way out but does do what I meant. | ||
| ▲ | croes a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Windows devs are forced to fire up Notepad I think that’s a joke | ||