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Comment by vunderba

17 hours ago

Yeah, good point. To expand on that: this actually started out as an animated typist for classic literary works in the public domain (some of which are in the Library), like The Machine Stops or The War of the Worlds.

That’s why, if you look at the IDEs, there’s a WordStar one. At the time, having it write from top to bottom made sense.

Now that I've expanded it to handle code, it would basically require building or integrating some kind of AST so a bit more work than I want to put in right now. Maybe I’ll include it in a future update!