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Comment by hnlmorg

This looks slick but I think you need a better way to market it.

The 2D canvas part is the norm for anyone who wants performance. Working with the DOM becomes painfully slow and resource intensive the moment you add syntax highlighting, spell checking, and other visual chrome, to large documents.

This is why Monaco (the editor widget behind VSCode) is a canvas. Why terminal emulators built with web technologies use canvas. And so on.

So I wouldn’t say the canvas part of the heading is a differentiator.

Edit: apologies, seems I was wildly wrong here. Please disregard the above.

parent hnlmorg 2 days ago

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