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!
How much space and ram does this use?
The MacOS textedit bundle is 2 Mb too.
TextMate's bundle is 38 Mb but even that is probably less than a browser, npm and all the baggage it comes with.
Actually much better than I expected.
NotePad runs on Win32 (or whatever it is these days). This runs on Chrome + Win32.
The argument doesn't really pass the sniff test frankly. Windows is a general purpose operating system much like Chrome is a general purpose web browser.
Infact nowadays to get this sort of NotePad you'll always have Edge installed in your computer, so you don't even have to download Chrome!
And you conveniently forget that you can choose not to start a browser while running the native notepad.
I mentioned how many resources are downloaded. NPM is not required. "Modern" webapps get bundled, NPM is not distributed.
> And you conveniently forget that you can choose not to start a browser while running the native notepad.
When running a PWA, you don't have to start a browser. Does Chromium run in the background, sure, but you just click a icon or search like you always do. And honestly it opens and is ready to use possibly quicker than Notepad itself.
No need to hate on a submission. Some things aren't for everyone, but that doesn't mean its fundamentally flawed.
You are arguing by chucking out claims and seeing what lands. That's not a good faith argument.