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145 points itkeman | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.209s | 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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nottorp ◴[] No.42797863[source]
Just to be the devil's advocate, notepad.exe is 200 kb.

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.

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bangaladore ◴[] No.42798340[source]
According to Chrome dev tools, 7.1 kB of network traffic, about 100 kB of total resources.

Actually much better than I expected.

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RadiozRadioz ◴[] No.42798726[source]
You need to include Chrome.

NotePad runs on Win32 (or whatever it is these days). This runs on Chrome + Win32.

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bangaladore ◴[] No.42799003[source]
NotePad runs on Windows. You need to include Windows.

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!

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1. RadiozRadioz ◴[] No.42821988[source]
The division between the OS and user space is a pretty obvious line in the sand.