Tuesday, May 31, 2011

CodeMirror vs. Ace

Here's why I went with CodeMirror over Ace for Rewritepad:

4 comments:

FEBO said...

Thanks for the comparison. I'll take this as todo list for Ace. Though I cannot easily turn in to Marijn :)

FYI your third point is wrong. Ace actually pioneered this technique and CodeMirror2 implemented it later. So both editors are perfectly suitable for large documents.

Best,
Fabian

Sandeep Shetty said...

> Thanks for the comparison. I'll take this as todo list for Ace.

Looking forward to it.

> Though I cannot easily turn in to Marijn :)

I know I'm being unfair by putting that on the list :)

> FYI your third point is wrong.

Fixed.

Adam Jimenez said...

Codemirror is good but Ace is better

Richer API (once you figure it out)
Many more features such as:
-Wordwrap
-Code folding
-Drag 'n drop code
-JSHint
Very active community - with lots of help and contributors (including mozilla)

santosh said...

Hi sandeep,
Present i am using codemirror in my web application, now i want to move to ACE, can you guide me how change this. Thank you in advance.

This is santosh