Making a large profit and growing 100X every month is very hard with an emacs package. You must understand that the only reason to develop software is to make an obscene amount of money?
They should pivot this package to crosswords as a service and ensure growth, maybe seek some funding while they are at it.
If big fat electron apps are to become the standard, users who are content with older, more stable, slimmer software will have to be brutally mocked online. We've seen this technique used here on this site as a way to help market such diverse technologies as Rust, VSCode, Wayland, and System D.
Emacs is meant to really be a text-editor. I'm all for utilizing Emacs and Vim to do unique things, like ledgers and time tracking, since those are essentially markup formats for text editing. However, crosswords just seems more or less like playing games in Vim. It is cool and all, like I said, but it seems much better suited for at least a semi-interactive text-based CLI app.
I applaud the developer regardless, but I personally would be much more keen on using this if it was standalone and not dependent on Emacs.
That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo. ;-P emacs is an interactive Lisp environment that incidentally ok at editing text. I remember someone making the argument that Emacs is a great application platform, because it provides an extremely consistent API across all operating systems.
Again, I applaud them for their efforts. I think it is cool. However, it would also be cool to have a standalone crossword app that uses an ncurses-type of library to play crosswords in the console without relying on Emacs. That is all I was saying. I'm not criticizing the author that what they did isn't neat.
