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by adastra22 155 days ago
Why the comparison? There are obvious risks to rolling your own crypto or auth solutions. That concern doesn’t apply to an editor though.
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Many years ago I've used Editra under Linux, it was crashing and losing my unsaved changes at least once a day.

Sure, these days you could (and should) use source control, but still I would be concerned about using a non vetted editor for my code.