Fun and Beautiful, but power intensive

The editor is beautiful and fun to use. It’s extremely customizable, just like the other app by this developer “Cathode”. You can choose everything ranging from the scan line strength to the text color to the amount of distortion. The editor is very fun to use, though I wouldn’t write “War and Peace” on it, the actual text editor capabilities are slim, though I believe that is intentional. For a quick note or a few shell scripts, this app gives you that extra bit of flair, and is well worth the 3$.

My main complaint is that the app seems to be very power intensive. Once I open the app, the fan on my 2014 MBP (13’) starts spinning at max, and I can feel the computer get noticeably warmer. I understand there’s a lot of graphically-intensive operations going on, but I feel there’s no good reason why my simple text editor gets my computer all worked up. Also a reason why I wouldn’t write anything too long in this editor. Other than that, I don’t have any major complaints.

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