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What’s a user-friendly mouse friendly modeless cli text editor you can compile to wasm?


I don't think its really practical to do so. wasm can't directly access the canvas or webgpu contexts. it has to route date through js anyways so you will always have js code in the loop here.


micro?


You literally, and I mean literally read my mind dear random stranger down to the wording. Micro is definitely underrated.

Micro is a truly goated software. I mean, it can genuinely replace vscode for small scale editing in the context of shopify that the parent comment was referring to.

https://micro-editor.github.io/

It also helped me in physics when I had to remember the units like 10^-6 being micro, 10^-9 being nano etc. and the funny thing is that I used to remember it in the start by seeing I am not sure if it was on micro's github or something but it was a comment on how micro has more features than nano and thus it's name.

So like for some time I definitely felt like I was thinking of micro software, then nano and making the feature comparison to find micro to be larger than nano.

Might seem kinda niche but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MICRO. Its the one software that I install everywhere, even on my android phone by using UserLand[1] with alpine linux.

I tried writing python code on my phone and it was definitely pleasant thanks to micro.

[1]:https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd




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