Comment by vsgherzi

11 days ago

Honestly the experience looks pretty nice. Which is crazy to say for such an old style of program but I kind of like it. Perhaps just nostalgia for a time I never got your experience.

A year or so ago I spent half a day writing some Rust on an actual DEC glass teletype (VT520) connected to a Debian box. I used vim and shell job control (^Z, jobs, fg, etc.) to switch between tooling and a persistent text editor. It made me feel things.

I'm not mad at this at all. It probably runs with like 20kb if RAM.

I realize the author is probably just having fun, but if a few modern features added to this and I would probably try it.

Multi cursor, a little terminal window, some way to do code hints or intelligence. This would be a dream boat lol

  • https://github.com/boxed/TurboKod

    I started this just for the lulz, but now I've got:

    copy/paste/undo

    multiple cursors

    debuggers

    syntax highlighting (even nested languages with jetbrains style comments!)

    find-in-files

    integrated documentation

    integrated git client (roughly modeled after lazygit)

    spell checking

    and tons more that I can't even remember

  • Thank you! I may build this out further. I just wanted to get started and feel like back then; share and see what happens. If I am the only one who is excited about this.