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486 points ethanpil | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.373s | source
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pulkitsh1234 ◴[25 Jun 25 07:30 UTC] No.44374546[source]▶
Geniunely curious, how projects like these get approved in an org at the scale of Microsoft? Is this like a side project by some devs or part of some product roadmap? How did they convince the leadership to spend time on this?
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dark-star ◴[25 Jun 25 07:45 UTC] No.44374646[source]▶
As they explained, they needed a text editor that works in a command line (for Windows Core server installs), works across SSH (because for a while now Windows included an SSH Server so you can completely manage it through SSH), and can be used by non-vi-experienced Windows administrators (i.e. a modeless editor).
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llarsson ◴[25 Jun 25 07:53 UTC] No.44374677[source]▶
Telling people to use nano would of course have been next to impossible. Much easier to rewrite a DOS-era editor in Rust, naturally.
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1. red_admiral ◴[25 Jun 25 08:33 UTC] No.44374944[source]▶
This way gets coolness points, HN headlines, makes the programmers who wrote it happy, and probably is a contribution to making a couple of autistic people feel included.

Rust + EDITOR.COM is kind of like remaking/remastering an old video game.