Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple provide Xcode 27's markdown editor as a separate app?

2 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by amichail

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7 Comments

andsoitis

13 hours ago

.md files are mostly (only?) used by engineers. Why build and maintain a second app when you already have something that does the job sufficiently?

amichail

13 hours ago

It would be mostly the same code. But loading Xcode is overkill when you just want to edit a markdown file.

andsoitis

13 hours ago

Just use a plain text editor.

amichail

13 hours ago

I like WYSIWYG editing.

andsoitis

12 hours ago

What if you used something like VSCode if you don't like Xcode?

Or one of the many many others that exist? A quick google yielded this one for example: https://stackedit.io

Be resourceful :-)

platevoltage

13 hours ago

You don’t love it when you open a file that is randomly associated with Xcode and you see that icon start to bounce?

tybstar

13 hours ago

As bad as accidentally clicking on a mailto: link and watching Mail.app spool up.