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dizhntoday at 11:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's so fascinating how different things people look for in such a simple thing as a text editor. A file browser? Terminal?


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embedding-shapetoday at 12:02 PM

Indeed, all I need is something that connect to a running background repl so I can evaluate code, everything else basically bells and whistles. Others seem to run entire OSes as their editor.

I'm glad we have so many options, and it seems like each year we have even more options :)

mghackerladytoday at 1:53 PM

there's a reason Unix like systems usually ship with 3 or so