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Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor

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255 points rd07 | 2 comments | 20 Aug 24 07:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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geenat ◴[20 Aug 24 08:22 UTC] No.41297978[source]▶
As an extension writer...

Writing extensions in Lua is huge. (Same as OBS) Looks very simple and productive.

It's one of the main reasons I've stuck to Sublime... extending with Python is very easy and works everywhere.

Even if both Zed and VSCode are strong in other areas.. Rust extensions makes me cringe (a build toolchain? ugh..) VSCode's inconsistent undocumented Javascript API is a pain in the butt (paste & pray driven development).

Will be keeping an eye on this.

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1. daelon ◴[20 Aug 24 14:58 UTC] No.41300681[source]▶
I'm a VSCode extension author and I don't really know what you mean by "inconsistent undocumented API". Do you have any examples?
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2. golergka ◴[20 Aug 24 15:06 UTC] No.41300761[source]▶
I haven't written much vscode extensions, but I've worked professionally on editors that use Monaco (the text editor library used and developed by vscode team). There's almost no documentation whatsoever.