Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!

Hello RSS reader! This post contains interactive features. Please visit the canonical web page for an optimal viewing experience :) “They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore” resonated with a lot of folk. Software these days is garbage. That got me thinking; I’m good at building garbage!Why can’t I build my own text editor?VS Code is built upon Monaco Editor which is a <div> soup hellscape. I was late to the VS Code train because for years my Intel inside™ Mac was too slow. That issue was resolved when I bought Apple silicon. If that’s the standard I have a lot of room to make mistakes.CanvasMy first experiment renders everything on a <canvas> element. RSS does not support this interactive feature. Please visit the canonical web page. You can’t tell, but your CPU is doing a lot of work to render that picture at 60–120 frames per second. Lack of interactivity is an obvious problem for a text editor.I made a list of the “minimum viable” features and implemented them.Pointer down to…