[messe]

Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free environment and as a bonus is in the base install of OpenBSD).

[kjeetgill]

I'm a basic bash and vim kinda cat too. Even then, I vastly prefer things in the browser for these 'flavor-of-the-week' type apps than many of the alternatives like:

  $ curl shady-url.com | bash, or
  $ tar xzf $(curl -O shady_url); make install, or
  $ npm install some-shady-package
  $ whatever other ruby/python/gem/egg/cmake/pathogen/etc.
  $ brew install cask github/shady-business
  $ docker pull ubunut+apt-get+myapp+postgres

Or hey, click this and forget about it in an hour. Ah. so much better.

[b_b]

While these web-app things may be nice for quickly trying out these programs, for actual long-term use on my machine and workflow besides all of the other programs, they don't stand up to the test unless they are truly revolutionary and needed.

[petepete]

I'm with you on that. Even if I'm typing a long response in a web form I often write it in Vim and paste it onto the form.

I created a documentation CMS that functions as a Git repository allowing you to make the choice. The web editor is quite nice but power users will always prefer a proper editor.

https://www.graphia.co.uk

[zouhair]

> Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days?

This. I hate this trend, I even systematically use mpv/youtube-dl to watch videos out of the browser.

[MR4D]

According to item #10 on the page, you can download it and run it on the command line.