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Ok. Was this just a case of someone seeing if they can? Because my only thought here is “Why?”
It's really small, can easily replace nano
That it can fit on a 5 1/4" floppy with room to spare might have been important once, but I think we are long past that point. Micro takes 5 MB, Nano 3.
Looking into it further it looks a bit like NIH syndrome. Here's Microsoft's explanation: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/
TL;DR: We tried nothing and were all out of options.
I actually understand why Microsoft would create their own terminal editor again. It kinda make sense and they now have it fully in their own control.
Not only it the binary under the magic 200k file size limit. They can now also better integrate it with windows and their key bindings etc.
Why didn't they write this instead of the BS above?
They didn't ask me 🤔