Primrose
Dev tools
text editor
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
14 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 9 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 10 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Excited about editing code inside VR and 3D worlds.
From 2 comments
So here's why this is particularly awesome in my head. I am a digital nomad, and basically travel with a backpack's worth of stuff, developing off my 13"MBA. The thing I miss the…
keerthiko on HNWow, this is AWESOME. Imagine playing around in a Voxel.js Minecraft world, walking up to an NPC, and lifting the hood to reveal its live-editable source code. Looking forward to…
bcjordan on HN
Good direction for next-generation editors.
From 1 comment
Just from the description, this nails something I've been wanting to see for awhile. Having text editor "primitives" (panes, windows, tabs) be actual geometric primitives is a…
daenz on HN
Objections
Site crashed or went down under traffic.
From 2 comments
Site down for me
hassaderpdole on HNFailing with the following error in Chrome: ``` GET https://primroseeditor.com:8082/javascripts/ga.js net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT ``` And in Firefox it's not even loading the home…
BoppreH on HN
Safari can crash and lose tabs.
From 1 comment
Just a warning, if you try this while using Safari it might crash and close all of your tabs somehow. And it might make it so that you can't reopen those tabs despite the fact…
bronz on HN
Fullscreen, caret and focus bugs on OS X.
From 1 comment
This would be cool to code a game from within a game. A game mechanic where you have to "hack" a computer system to gain rewards or advance levels. A few notes, using FF35 on OSX…
leepowers on HN
Fails to run well on Android.
From 1 comment
This is so cool. Very interesting as an idea, hard to explain without seeing it I almost didn't click. Side note: I tried to load this on Chrome for Android and it went very…
habosa on HN
Requests
Non-English keyboard and umlaut support.
From 1 comment
Sadly no umlauts, but the other alphanumeric keys are mapped correctly. Any chance for non-English keyboard support?
noiv on HN
Mobile and touch support.
From 2 comments
There are no overt technical reasons it won't run on Android. At one point, I did have it running in Chrome and Firefox on Android, but I had a lot of difficulty getting it to…
moron4hire on HNWhich keyboard are you using? It's impossible to accurately detect keyboard layout in javascript, but I do provide a option to select keyboards. Unfortunately, the only ones I've…
moron4hire on HN
Questions
Is the license a one-time payment covering updates?
From 1 comment
Is it safe to assume that the $10 closed-source license includes all updates through a 1.x release?
bkyan on HN
Alternatives named
RiftSketch
From 1 comment
This reminds me of RiftSketch[1]! Maybe you should get in touch with brian_peiris :) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411638
hughes on HN
LabVIEW
From 1 comment
My wife chimes in here and says, "don't even talk to me about LabVIEW". She's apparently not happy with it right now, haha. I don't see what you mean about Magma. This is what…
moron4hire on HN