Very excited to share my first article on the engineering tradeoffs behind building a hybrid code editor!
Most products completely avoid this space, choosing either raw text or a constrained UI model. Supporting both of these exposes uncomfortable problems like real-time bidirectional state sync, correctness of parsing arbitrary user syntax/formatting, and avoiding complexity or corruption over time.
This piece breaks down my approach to each of these issues.
Very excited to share my first article on the engineering tradeoffs behind building a hybrid code editor!
Most products completely avoid this space, choosing either raw text or a constrained UI model. Supporting both of these exposes uncomfortable problems like real-time bidirectional state sync, correctness of parsing arbitrary user syntax/formatting, and avoiding complexity or corruption over time.
This piece breaks down my approach to each of these issues.