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Building a hackable editor in the browser

by bjenik on 7/14/19, 5:07 PM with 72 comments

• by kjar on 7/15/19, 12:10 AM

  So AFAIK Electron is built on V8 JS engine. Last I looked that has a JIT compiler, then I’d expect performance to increase as that ‘warms up’

• by awake on 7/14/19, 6:19 PM

  If you like this check out https://github.com/Webstrates/Codestrates

• by kevingrahl on 7/15/19, 12:41 AM

  Could someone upgrade/update the link to include https:// please?

• by pier25 on 7/14/19, 6:30 PM

      script, style { display: block; }
  

  I have no words.

• by atum47 on 7/14/19, 8:32 PM

  nice, I did something similar to myConsole, except I did override some functions and added some buttons to make it look like and app

  https://github.com/victorqribeiro/myConsole

• by pcr910303 on 7/15/19, 12:20 AM

  Yeah, so it's basically emacs in the browser!

  Changing editor capabilities on-the-fly!

• by Kaiyou on 7/14/19, 7:09 PM

  ...how about moving things out of the browser? It's cramped as it is. And then people wonder why their browser is so slow... "it's just displaying documents!"