QED VS metadesk

Compare QED vs metadesk and see what are their differences.

QED

NOW OBSOLETE. UTF-8/Unicode-aware port of Rob Pike's QED editor for Unix (by phonologus)
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QED metadesk
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32 316
- 2.5%
2.7 0.0
3 months ago 7 months ago
C C
- MIT License
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QED

Posts with mentions or reviews of QED. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-06.
  • Ask HN: More “experimental“ UIs for editing/writing code?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2022
    Not exactly "experimental", considering the Unix heritage, but -- line editors.

    "I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing." -- Ken Thompson, on the superiority of ed to visual editors. Summarized by Peter Salus in A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley, 1994).

    Definitely a blast from the past, but I do think line editors may force one to write simpler programs -- or to think in smaller chunks, as opposed to (doom)scrolling or moving about incrementally on a large screen.

    Rob Pike's sam editor has an interesting command language. You're not limited to thinking in "lines" as in ed or sed; rather, the whole file is a giant string that you manipulate using regular expressions, external pipes, etc: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf

    Its predecessor, qed, is also interesting, extremely powerful, but it seems to have a much steeper learning curve. I have used sam quite a bit, but not qed. https://github.com/phonologus/QED/raw/master/doc/qed-tutoria...

metadesk

Posts with mentions or reviews of metadesk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-06.

What are some alternatives?

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impulse - Impossible Dev Tools for React and Tailwind

enso - Hybrid visual and textual functional programming.

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gtoolkit - Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through experiences tailored for each problem.