[tmcw]

CodeMirror is one of the most important pieces of software, period. This thing is powering everyone's editors - heck, Chrome DevTools uses it.

CM6 has a steep learning curve, in exchange for being even more flexible than 5. It's worth it.

[capableweb]

I'm not sure the over-exaggerations are necessary (one of the most important? Everyone's editors?), CodeMirror is plenty good to just stand on its own merits without over-hyping it.

[tmcw]

CodeMirror powers a ton of editors that people use: https://codemirror.net/5/doc/realworld.html

It's exhausting to tailor language to the comments section. I once wrote a post called "the best programming font" and all the comments were about how it was not provably scientifically the best and it was just "my opinion." We're not writing math proofs here, let people express thoughts.

[capableweb]

Sure, I'm not saying it doesn't power a lot of editors. But it doesn't even come close to powering the editors most people use daily, so your over-exaggeration just makes the praise feel less like adding value to conversation and like over-hyping something for no reason.

As some sort of reference, the most common (loved) editors are: neovim, vscode, rider, vim, emacs, intellij, ipython/jupyter, webstorm, pycharm, visual studio, rubymind, phpstorm, notepad++, xcode, sublime, android studio and so on.

Neither of those use CodeMirror.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dr...

> Question: Which development environments did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year? Please check all that apply.

Yes, CodeMirror is big and popular, and great overall. Again, I'm not saying otherwise. It's just hard to take comments seriously when they are obviously not factual, and it detracts from the message you want to convey.

Edit: To be a bit more constructive: Instead of saying "CodeMirror is what everyone uses!" or "This font is the best font for programming!", try to write out the reasons of why you think like that instead, and let people arrive to their own conclusions. Describe the cases you've seen where CodeMirror shines, or write why and in what cases the font truly stands out to you. And maybe then you'll get a warmer reception in your replies.

[Existenceblinks]

Yep, at the end of the day it's just text editor. I hope UX people with coding skills would re-visiting Paredit and make it mainstream. Designing keystroke for the mass is hard, especially for text heavy (e.g. docs) content.

[leaflets2]

Thanks for the tips in the edit, I'll try to do that :-) (I'm sbd else).

Same as "Show, don't tell" among writers

[hjkl0]

This seems to go beyond choice of words. All you’re saying here is that context is exhausting. But sounds like you’d sooner exhaust your listeners with vagueness then try to exhaust yourself to find clarity.

[Existenceblinks]

The best editor will have no syntax. I'm more into re-visiting structure editor to finally skip lexer and parser altogether.