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I haven’t used many of these vibe coded clones, but the ones I have used have all been significantly lacking in depth compared to what they are ripping off. I’m sure wordcraft works fine for typing a high school 5 paragraph essay (although, I don’t think high school students still do that). I would be shocked if it can handle revision history, complex redline edits, legal brief formatting, etc.

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It handles complex redlines, legal brief formatting, etc.

When you convert to pdf, it typically produces identical content streams to Word.

I just tried it out of curiosity. It doesn't exist in their web suite, when I tried to run it using their launcher it failed to install and crashed the installer.

I can't directly refute your claims, but I can say that a program that won't install can't do any of those things for me.

I don't care if my lawyer doesn't use word. I do care if they use a buggy, vibe coded that is still in Alpha. Word processing is a solved problem. Free (beer or speech) word processing is a solved problem. Word compatible free word processing is a solved problem. Don't put my case in jeopardy because you want to use untested, alpha software.

Hard to diag from here. use claude code to launch and diag.

All your points are laughably trivial features. We don't "Word" for that bullshit.

Which parts of your bullshit do you use word for?

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