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		rovr138 on Sept 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilo... How do you implement a text editor? I think a lot of people don't consider how complex text editors are and then there are the complexities of an IDE, or extensions, to be able to interact with it. ropes? gap buffers? https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r... how vscode does it, - https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table

k__ on Sept 17, 2024 [–]

I'm not saying text editors are on the last place in terms of perf requirements.

I'm just saying, that general graphics editors is above that and do just fine with React.

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