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486 points ethanpil | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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anyfoo ◴[25 Jun 25 00:27 UTC] No.44372516[source]▶
Fun. I must admit I don't really know who this is for, but it seems fun.
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DrJokepu ◴[25 Jun 25 00:43 UTC] No.44372607[source]▶
It’s right there in the readme actually:

> The goal is to provide an accessible editor that even users largely unfamiliar with terminals can easily use.

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scblock ◴[25 Jun 25 00:49 UTC] No.44372647[source]▶
That may be the written goal, but I doubt that's the actual reason the project exists.
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cosignal ◴[25 Jun 25 00:57 UTC] No.44372682[source]▶
Yeah ... I don't think there's any overlap between "users largely unfamiliar with terminals" who want something easy to use, and 'Linux users who are sufficiently technical that they would even hear about this repo'.
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zamadatix ◴[25 Jun 25 01:09 UTC] No.44372760[source]▶
The title is a bit confusing depending how you read it. Edit isn't "for" Linux any more than PowerShell was made for Linux to displace bash, zsh, fish, and so on. Both are just also available with binaries "for" Linux.

The previous HN posts which linked to the blog post explaining the tool's background and reason for existing on Windows cover it all a lot better than a random title pointing to the repo.

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egorfine ◴[25 Jun 25 09:17 UTC] No.44375201[source]▶
TIL PowerShell exists for Linux.

But.. why?

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1. trelane ◴[25 Jun 25 15:52 UTC] No.44378682[source]▶
Well, parts of it do, anyway.

As with .net, it is not intended to let you easily get away from Microsoft.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/whats...