Microsoft’s new vim alternative is written in Rust???

lol, it's not a vim alternative. it's more like a Nano alternative. Simple terminal editing without any modal editing

Theo: "I wish big company was backing it so it will be there forever." Google: 💀

A big company backing something is never a safeguard for longevity.

Primeagen finna have a field day with ts

I was confused why would they even make something like this but when I heard him say "ship it with windows" it all clicked this is made to be a simple easy to learn editor so a sys admin could use it to modify a configuration file or do simple tasks It's a nano replacement not a vim one

Bro paid $100 dollars for Parallels only to figure out you could just chmod it and run it on macOS itself🙏

3:45 as a vim guy, that hurt to hear

This was really *needed*, not only as a cute text editing tool. A couple weeks ago I discovered how the current version of Notepad doesn't work in Windows Recovery environment, so when you have to edit some files from that environment to repair Windows, you can't unless you use some external tool. If this comes standard, that's a pretty big lifesaver in that situation.

This is just a simple editor for doing things on the versions of windows that don't have a desktop environment without installing things. It's not a replacement for notepad.

Oh. I remember the old edit tool. When I moved from a 32 bit Windows system to 64 bit I was disappointed that their wasn't a simple built in commandline tool to make quick edits