Phi-editor
Dev tools
text editor
SHOW HN2018
102points
34comments
#426of 2,155 in 2018
Top 20%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Performance: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting combination of Go and SDL for a text editor
From 1 comment
A text editor in Go rendered in SDL, that's an interesting combination I never thought I would see.
noobermin on HN
Objections
Performance and battery drain concerns from rendering like a game
From 4 comments
"Phi is a minimal text editor designed to look pretty, run fast, and be easy to configure and use. It's primary function is for editing code." "The editor is written as if it's a…
ishaanbahal on HNTight game-loops can be a battery drain, and especially if there are local 'go-lang' things running, inevitably, alongside the SDL bridge. I'd put it in as a clever and educated…
primitur on HNI skimmed through the code and I am interested to see what it is doing, so thanks. However from a high design point of view, don't you think that requiring 3D acceleration…
nspattak on HNSeriously quit writing text editors that require GPU acceleration.
gct on HN
Too immature to compare with Xi
From 1 comment
Xi is orders of magnitudes more mature than Phi. You can't compare 76 contributors and 1128 commits vs 1 contributor and 103 commits.
zippoxer on HN
Questions
Plans for text shaping, bidirectional text and font fallback given use of SDL_ttf
From 1 comment
I found it interesting to just glance at the code, having never touched Go (but familiar with SDL). Some day I will find the time hack around in one of these new languages,…
bionoid on HN
Alternatives named
Xi editor
From 1 comment
My guess (hope) is that Phi is just very new and alpha, and that the author was trying to say "it might eat your homework." Nevertheless, contrast that with Xi, another new,…
aorth on HN
Sublime Text
From 1 comment
alright, tried it out on a ~10K line file i have; lines can get pretty long, up to 1000 characters. xi is better than last time i checked -- it can open the file, and is snappy…
dilap on HN
VS Code
From 1 comment
>* Everybody keeps attempting their own implementation, but the existing players are good enough (or can be tweaked to be good enough) that no-one gets serious traction.* The…
coldtea on HN