git.js

This is great, thanks for sharing! It's funny, I was just thinking about trying to use Electron for a markdown editor project. I work in an academic environment and fantasize about luring writers and editors away from MS Word into Markdown. Unfortunately it looks like the Marked library (the most popular JS parser) doesn't support extensions like footnotes, which are critical for my use-case. My ultimate dream would be to have an Electron-based markdown editor that supports inline "tracked changes" through something like git.js[1], sort of like a desktop version of prose.io. Care to share any thoughts about the experience of working in the Electron platform? [1]: https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js

Tim, do you know about https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js ?

A pure Javascript implementation of git? 0. Why is this a good idea? Have all the desktops and laptops died, and are people forced to use Mozilla OS for development? I'd vastly prefer native applications on iPad, Windows RT, Android and other such platforms (if I suddenly went crazy and decided to do development on them). And a PNaCl application on Chromebook, if that's what you're specifically targeting. 1. Why won't it die like git.js did? [1] Why aren't you working on extending git.js? 2. Where can I see a technical roadmap? You're planning to deflate, applying deltas, huge packfiles with 4G objects in Javascript? What performance guarantees can you make? 3. Git is not a dumb book-keeper where you just checkout, make changes, and checkin. How are you going to replicate what makes git so awesome: `rebase -i`, `filter-branch`, `rer

Readwriteweb adds no value here; just click thru to the github repo - https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js Also, already discussed - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747216