Good work on the effort to the author.

And every time y'all, how absurd is it that this still has to exist? It never stops being wild to me.

jnathsf 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

it could be worse and be completely closed source like google docs

skrebbel 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t completely follow. Why is it absurd to want to generate documents that are editable by humans?

No, I mean it's absurd that a horrible "standard" like a Word Doc has such staying power, and that we have to keep writing things against it.

	▲	fishbone 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Since HTML is so rich and the DX is amazing these days, I wish HTML file sharing for the document use case (and using the browser as a client) was widely accepted, it’s another problem/opportunity I’ve pondered a lot.