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You cannot claim you're "against feature bloat" while then in the same breath say that it is acceptable that a basic text editor have an entire additional render pipeline.

If you want Markdown use VSCode, it is a first class citizen. Don't take an intentionally stripped down text editor and bolt on VSCode-like features.

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As I posted in a sibling, I thought the whole point of markdown was that it was simplified to the point that rendering it was easy to do from scratch. But we fumbled that because we (collectively) have no idea what we are doing.

The whole point of markdown is that it is easily readable and editable and the structure is evident without being rendered. That it doesn't strictly need to be rendered in all or any context is its utility.

>But we fumbled that because we (collectively) have no idea what we are doing.

Because, almost entirely, the software development industry has disclaimed all responsibility. It's super common for people to try to do shit they have no experience or skill at, push their effort to be adopted by others, then when it crashes and burns they have no accountability. If software "engineers" adopted the rigors and accountability and dignity of traditional engineering, the industry would be very different.

And on top of that, now we have people letting LLMs go to town on their work, even though the things can't program worth a damn, all because those people can't be assed to actually program (you know, their job). We're entering very dark days for software quality, unfortunately.

Even traditional engineering is now being coerced by "move fast and break things" management.

It feels like a plague of ignorance and enshittification has silently taken over everything.

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