2026-05-06

Ben Holmes says switching from TipTap/ProseMirror to Slate made a rich-text bulleted-list interaction drama...

useful anecdote for editor-stack choice, especially when complex WYSIWYG behavior is on the roadmap and dev velocity matters more than ecosystem gravity alone.

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Reading Log X Post Historical Backfill Developer Tools LLM Research

Imported from historical reading log.

  • Extracted main post via api.fxtwitter.com fallback.
  • Ben Holmes says switching from TipTap/ProseMirror to Slate made a rich-text bulleted-list interaction dramatically easier to build; something that took weeks to half-work in TipTap took a couple of hours in Slate, with Codex helping.
  • Core signal is less Slate is universally better and more framework ergonomics matter a lot for AI-assisted development: some abstractions are much easier to extend/debug with model help.
  • Why it matters: useful anecdote for editor-stack choice, especially when complex WYSIWYG behavior is on the roadmap and dev velocity matters more than ecosystem gravity alone.
  • Possible angle: AI changes the editor-framework tradeoff by amplifying libraries with simpler mental models / extension surfaces.