New app, Bike

Posted by Jesse Grosjean
May 19, 2022 at 06:45 PM

> slightly baffled by Jesse’s obsessive emphasis on the ability to load and scroll through a very large document.

And in my reply I forgot my original claim…

“Bike is small, but designed for real work. It’s fast. It can handle big outlines that break other outliners. Bike’s also fast at the basics–opening files, scrolling views, and resizing windows. Bike won’t slow your Mac down”

These (the apps you tested) are all text editors with no structure or outliner features, at least the ones I could test.

Bike is an outliner. It’s pretty cool that (for this particular test) it’s faster than most macOS text editors (on my computer anyway), but there are many programmers text editors that are faster/more scalable than Bike.

That’s because Bike is designed as an outliner. Please try the same test on some outliner apps with the provided .opml file too. Make sure to expand everything then try to use. Most I can’t use. And when I can I look at Activity monitor and see they are taking GB of RAM… Bike has been open all afternoon for me, I just opened the test file, and now Bike it’s using ~50mb in main process in Activity Monitor.

My intention is not to say these other apps are bad. Moby Dick is big, generally you don’t need to handle that much text. But you ask why I even bother and this is why.