Comment by zozbot234
1 year ago
This could be a great text-mode IDE with the addition of some LSP, tree-sitter and DAP support. There is already an open issue about possibly adding support for tree-sitter grammars for fast syntax highlighting, but they do mention that this requires some sort of optional plugin system to avoid bloating up the codebase severely (for example, the tree-sitter grammars within the Helix editor take up hundreds of megabytes, which is obviously unacceptable here).
That just feels like scope creep. Notepad would also be neat with some better keybinding support, plugins, lsp, ... - but then it wouldn't be notepad, and theres countless not notepads out there.
Tools like nano (well, pico) exist to provide a reliable and always available minimum feature set. If you expand it, then you end up with something that is neither the minimum nor capable enough to sensibly compete with fully fledged alternatives.
Well, Notepad is introducing AI support which already feels like scope creep to me…
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...
They already introduced it. It's been there for some months.
... Yikes.
No, it would still be notepad, but a higher quality one where especially users who don’t know better wouldn’t have to suffer as much from bad/lacking functionality
There are already: Notepad3 (https://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad3/) or metapad (https://liquidninja.com/metapad/).
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More features ≠ higher quality.
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What on earth needs hundreds of megabytes to describe its grammar?
Even the hundreds of kilobytes used in the official grammars seems bulky to me. https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-java/releases