yoanizer

Do you really think choosing between vim, emacs, textmate, sublime, etc is going to make such a big difference in the end result?

What's wrong with text files + text editor + dropbox?

I'm tired of seeing all these "distraction free" writing tools. People have been writing using MS Word for years without any problem.

Don't try to find excuses for laziness by blaming the "writing tools", and just get to your writing.

All you really need is a text editor, most of them are already much better than you'd need them to be.

Hello, I have a question, what made you want to start this project? What do you not like about main branch vim?

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yet another (scripting) language? nice.

I have a feeling people tend to over estimate the importance of language choice. Might be just me though.

...* after reading some of the comments here *...

I think we would be better off caring a little bit less about what language to use and a little bit more about what programs to write.

Price control (not just rent control) causes similar effects in all industries.

I don't understand how people would want to invest in this. But that's just me.

This maybe related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712703

I don't think watching someone "code" (God, I hate this word) is going to teach you much.

It might teach you about what tools he uses, and what keyboard shortcuts he likes, but not about the more important tasks of understanding problems, and organising solutions. That's what makes writing software hard, not the "coding" part.

Yeah I know. I'm weird like that.

I'm constantly looking for things I can improve, and running out of free time to do that.

I don't find it makes me insecure in social situations though.

Don't worry about what others might think of you. But do worry about what you think about yourself. Aside from the facts that you mentioned what do you think about yourself right now? Are you happy with your body? are you happy with your career? are you happy with your hobbies? Do you eat well? Do you exercise regularly? Do you take care of yourself well? ...

Bottom line: Be someone YOU respect and like. The rest will take care of itself.

If you don't like yourself, nobody else will.

I see a lot of hate, but I can't see the arguments.

The article fails to explain why it worked.

It is going to take a lot to convince me that the world needs yet another statically typed OO programming language that looks just like any other.

It really leaves me shrugging my shoulders when I see titles like "such and such written in such and such language/framework". Like saying that writing a window manager in Rust (or whatever) is interesting just because it is in Rust.

Tell me, what does it bring to the table compared to other window managers ?

Great work. I love the fact that this encourages writing tests that are readable/documenting.

Definitely gonna give this a try.

Any recommended test runner to go with it?

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Really how you place your {} will never make or break your project. Focus on what really matters.

I have to admit I was expecting a little more than this. Why don't you rename the project into ``Bootstrap dropdown replacement'' or something, it would be more accurate.

+1 for Goyo.

As a side note, I don't like line-wrapping too much, I prefer auto formatting (:set tw=80 and then type away, vim will handle the line breaks)

Do you often find yourself writing on somebody else's machine?

I don't know about you but I find that I do 99.99% of my work on one of my machines (where I have control over what's installed and what is not).

So the issue for me is not if I can access the editor from remote, but if I can access/sync the data. (which dropbox solves for me).

To be honest I never really understood this need for minimalistic text editors. I can understand if all you know is MS Word, but when I need distraction free editing, I just launch Vim, open a file in my dropbox, and switch to full screen, done. No need for 10,000 projects like this (FocusWriter, WriteMonkey, WriteRoom, and whatever else).

(and as everyone else already mentioned, don't start by asking people their email).

I don't use Emacs, but this is great. Nice work.

I don't want to sound mean, but most of them look very amateurish at best.

I can't even think about blaming my Clients for not using the latest IE because I want to use some syntax sugar for things that I can already do with ECMA 5.

Ok but when can we expect to start using that and have our web apps work in the real world? in 10 years? 20 years?

I've been using vim and text files. If you want to create a journal entry for today: $ vim $(date +%a_%d_%m_%Y.txt) type your text and you are set.

If you want to search/sort/filter, etc your journal files, Unix has already all the tools you want. (grep, find, less, cat, sed, etc).

Don't sweat the small stuff.

I know failure success. You just have to deal with it. Sometimes it's so hard that you have lock yourself in your room cry, and curse the world. That's fine.

That's just something you have to go through on your road to success.

(Repost) Really we should stop talking so much about tools, and what tool/language/ide/whatever is best. Many years ago people didn't have half the tools we have now, and they still did amazing things. Most of what we have today is very good already. IMO focus on building products, not on bashing the tools. checkout http://prog21.dadgum.com/51.html