Total Focus
There are myriads of text editors out there, and I've written about them . In my last post, I landed on Helix as my ultimate editor. Lately however, I've been using a different program to write code. It has no "smart" features—no LSP, no autocomplete, no go to reference/definition—only syntax highlighting and good search. Despite this simplicity, in the past three months, using this editor, I have written the most critical lines of code in my entire career as a software engineer. The program is called Focus Editor . It's written in Jai, a long-anticipated programming language created by Jon Blow that is yet to be released. The compiler has been distributed among closed beta testers. The author of Focus Editor is one of those early testers. Jai is promised to be a language for writing high-performant software, primarily geared towards game development. In fact, Jon is developing a full-blown complex puzzle game alongside his work on the compiler and the language. ...