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viach on Nov 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Graphics for JVM

When one wants to implement a new desktop UI framework there is an elephant in the room - the rich text editor. You can implement your own layout engine, styling, fonts rendering but production quality feature-rich text editor is another level of complexity.

rmorey on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

evidenced by Raph Levien running out of steam on xi :(

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

vamega on Nov 17, 2020 | [–]

I don’t believe xi was a rich text editor. Just a regular text editor, with some interesting design decisions.

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