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Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

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145 points itkeman | 2 comments | 22 Jan 25 11:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source

As a native Windows user who switched to macOS a few years back, one thing I never got over was the simplicity and usefulness of the old school Notepad app. This app aims to recreate that very same experience, cross-platform and easily installable as a PWA.

I've been using this for personal use for around 2 years and I figured it was time to share it with the world. Criticism, issues and PRs are welcome. Thanks!

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JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B ◴[22 Jan 25 12:42 UTC] No.42792182[source]▶
What's wrong with TextEdit on macOS?

It's good that you made an alternative but it's not serious. I need to run Firefox, enable JS, reload the page, there is no "top menu" or install button, the open/save button does nothing, I can't choose my own fonts, and I guess it doesn't work if I don't have an internet connection.

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stijnstijn ◴[22 Jan 25 12:56 UTC] No.42792295[source]▶
It is indeed not quite a drop-in replacement for the 'real' Notepad, but I do find the complaint that you need to enable JS for something that has 'JS' in its name a little strange. That's the platform it was made for, it may not be a platform you enjoy using, and it could perhaps have been made on another platform, but it wasn't. That's hardly a reason to call it "not serious".
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1. bigstrat2003 ◴[22 Jan 25 17:31 UTC] No.42795285[source]▶
Web apps are not a viable replacement for native apps, so I think it's a fair criticism.
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2. hombre_fatal ◴[22 Jan 25 18:51 UTC] No.42796189[source]▶
I think they are most of the time. Most apps don't deserve to be installed on my computer for them to work. And there's no browser network bar nor browser plugins like uBlock Origin to control what they can do.

So native apps need to offer something more than "not a web app" to pay their rent on my system where they have often things like full filesystem access.