alt Hacker NewsJust like any text editor is doomed to become either Emacs or Word, so any image editor is doomed to become Photoshop.
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wilkystyle • today at 2:27 AM
Too true. I gave up trying to fight it years ago and now write all my documents in Emacs and edit my code with Microsoft Word.
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sam345 • today at 5:30 AM
Except Vim of course.
Reminds me of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment[^1,2]: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
[^1]: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/zawinskis-law/
[^2]: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/