On: Fine, I'll build my own text editor

[Isofarro]

The author travels the same path that ended up eventually with VS Code.

Reminds me strongly of Marjin Haverbeke's talk at Full Frontal conf in 2011: https://ffconf.org/talks/respectable-code-editing-in-the-bro... - Using Canvas, then contenteditable, and then DOM.

Haverbeke went on to create CodeMirror and ProseMirror.