I think "people" deserves clarification: Almost the entire thing was written by a single person and with a _seriously_ impressive feature set. The launch video is well worth a quick watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0&pp=ygUJY29weXBhc...

I don't say this to diminish anyone else's contribution or criticize the software, just to call out the absolutely herculean feat this one person accomplished.

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flanbiscuit 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There was an HN discussion about it 3 months ago with responses from the author, in case anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711519

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mouse-5346 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah people there pretty much mean one dude. It's mine boggling how much that little program can do considering it had one dev.

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tspng 3 days ago | parent [-]

Don't forget, "Lot of the code was written on a mobile phone using tmux and vim on a bus". That's crazy.

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Imustaskforhelp 3 days ago | parent [-]

I have tried to run micro https://micro-editor.github.io/ on my phone but this is some other beast if someone is running tmux and vim on their phone

I have found that typing normally is really preferably on android and usually I didn't like having to press columns or ctrl or anything so as such since micro is really just such a great thing overall, it fit so perfectly that when I had that device, I was coding more basic python on my phone than I was on my pc

Although back then I was running alpine on UserLand and I learnt a lot trying to make that alpine vm of sorts to work with python as it basically refused to and I think I learnt a lot which I might have forgotten now but the solution was very hacky (maybe gcompat) and I liked it

	▲	cess11 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I do a lot of development and sysadmin stuff on phones and tablets, to a large degree due to PentiKeyboard. It helps a lot to see the entire screen and have all the usual keyboard sends that a regular, physical keyboard has. https://software-lab.de/penti.html
	▲	az09mugen 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm using micro in termux on my android. The keyboard of termux is quite adapted to the CLU bindings (ctrl-f, ctrl-s,...). My main use is to take notes, though I bought a physical small bluetooth keyboard perfect for making a little bit of python scripts from time to time. I must admit that coding in vim on a kinda big project on a smartphone is really impressive.