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points by bombcar 2 days ago | 0 comments

Just like any text editor is doomed to become either Emacs or Word, so any image editor is doomed to become Photoshop.

Reminds me of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment[^1,2]: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

[^1]: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/zawinskis-law/

[^2]: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/

[–] wilkystyle 2 days ago

Too true. I gave up trying to fight it years ago and now write all my documents in Emacs and edit my code with Microsoft Word.

[–] jodrellblank 2 days ago

Did you miss the chance to edit your code with MS Paint as your IDE?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mspaint+ide

[–] sam345 2 days ago

Except Vim of course.

[–] eru 1 day ago

Well, there's vile for you.