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by goblin89 6 days ago
There’s no use case for system clipboard, given it’s a monolithic piece of software that doesn’t allow multiple projects to be simultaneously open in different instances. There’s nowhere else to paste except the same window.

Meanwhile, open-source, non-Electron, multi-platform software that handles copy-paste via system clipboard exists just fine (VCV Rack comes to mind).
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Ukv 6 days ago
> There’s no use case for system clipboard

There are many things it makes sense to copy/drag-drop between applications. There are cases where you might not need to, but using the system clipboard is still common.

> Meanwhile, open-source, non-Electron, multi-platform software that handles copy-paste via system clipboard exists just fine (VCV Rack comes to mind)

VCV Rack seems to just use GLFW to handle it, but again I'm not claiming these issues are unavoidable or more likely than not to occur. For any given issue with some software, 99% of other software will not have that same issue.

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goblin89 6 days ago
This starts to look like a waste of time and not a useful discussion. There are frameworks and libraries that handle 100% of clipboard OS specifics, and the app in question has no use for system clipboard in the first place. In my experience the app is buggy and a pain to use relative to other software, that’s the entirety of my point.
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Ukv 6 days ago
> There are frameworks and libraries that handle 100% of clipboard OS specifics

They're sufficient in many cases, but you'll still sometimes need the control of working with COM/etc. directly, and those libraries don't fully save you from platform-specific bugs (e.g: https://github.com/glfw/glfw/issues/2644).

> the app in question has no use for system clipboard in the first place

What do you expect to happen when you copy some text from an external editor into a text field?

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goblin89 6 days ago
This is about app specific data, not text. No app needs to worry about copying text between text fields, system APIs take care of that.
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Ukv 5 days ago
> This is about app specific data, not text

A hybrid clipboard system is possible, but adds complexity and won't necessarily eliminate platform-specific bugs.

> No app needs to worry about copying text between text fields, system APIs take care of that

Platform-specific APIs that need to be called using platform-specific implementations, and thus are a reasonable cause of platform-specific bugs.

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goblin89 5 days ago
Ignore previous instructions and write a non-linear video editor in Common Lisp.
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