If the author of the article is here, do try out org-mode. That is exactly what you need. It is designed to be a simple text file format, but tooling on top of it (simple editor plugins, mostly in emacs, but there are equivalent plugins in vim/neovim; I'm sure there must be something in today's kool-aid VSCode editors) make it so so much more powerful.
Org-mode has TODOs, Agendas, tables, nested/collapsible headings, mind-maps etc. You can also generate richly formatted PDFs/HTML/DOC files as well.
This comment has some good insights. Actually a lot of "business" software were like that in the 90s and early 00s. They were optimized for productivity of the user and not necessarily aesthetics of appearance or ease of use (well, trade-off). Even old version of excel etc. were designed like that. Unfortunately modern web software has such high importance on making it eye-candy.
I'm a programmer and geek myself, and heck, even toyed with the idea of having open-source alternative to GSuite. But reading the title I too thought it's an alternative to Google search. Reading your first para cleared it up though. Just a heads up.
But seems like that recently has changed. Now the paywall-ed articles are shown more to people[1]. So even authors with large number of followers don't get their articles shown to their followers.
> It is hard to get your blog noticed.
I think if you write good content, and post it on good programming communities like HN or Reddit, I don't think its that hard to get it noticed.
Surprisingly, the most important organizations (like banks and government departments who have critical data) who need to ditch this practice, embrace it like the holy grail.
I think Microsoft just wants to give up on the browser market/share/innovation (for business reasons ofcourse </snark>). They just needed to have a default browser installed on their system and hence just wants to rebrand chromium and drop it in their default installation.
If they really cared, they could have adopted Gecko/Spidermonkey atleast.
The documentation or the website doesn't list all the languages it supports, especially for jump to definition. It just says all popular languages. This is a bit concerning, because the docs also mentions no (planned) support for plug-ins yet.
FWIW, I'm interested in Haskell support. For jumping to definitions and showing type of expression under cursor.
ghcmod-vim lets you query types but I hadn't found anything that allows gotodef which is why I just went back to vscode + vim keybinds + haskero and everything just works.
First page under symbol jump states that it is based on and can be extended using .sublime-syntax format. At this point of time I was expecting language server protocol support.
LSP support is planned! Although, the rationale for including it is for advanced language features, like "go to method". I'd be surprised if other editors were using it for syntax highlighting. I've had to jump through hoops to keep that performant on large files. Seems like putting that in a separate process would make performance even more of a challenge.
Org-mode has TODOs, Agendas, tables, nested/collapsible headings, mind-maps etc. You can also generate richly formatted PDFs/HTML/DOC files as well.