Great work, thank you. I was awaiting for something like this for a while. Thanks for sharing.
As a side note:
In the long term what I would really love to see - is Rust GUI for Neovim[1] (embedded library / service). Thus I would be able to both hack around my editor and get VIM's maturity and experience most of the times.
Nothing besides convenience. As a rule of thumb I would love to have editor I find suiting my needs and ideally it would be easy to me to contribute/adjust it to my needs.
Regarding [Neo]Vim - I don't think core is something I would touch a lot. Most likely UI/GUI stuff and plugins (vimscripts etc ..). Due to the nature of vimscripts I would prefer to hack around it in something like Python, Lua or Rust.
- I find C++ codebase too hard to follow and understand. I like C, but it lacks syntax sugar etc...
- I find Rust promising (hopefully it's something I will be able to read relatively easy and hopefully it would be easier to reason about,especially in regard to memory management).
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Great work, thank you. I was awaiting for something like this for a while. Thanks for sharing.
As a side note: In the long term what I would really love to see - is Rust GUI for Neovim[1] (embedded library / service). Thus I would be able to both hack around my editor and get VIM's maturity and experience most of the times.
[1]: http://neovim.org/
* Update *: spelling and formatting
Thanks! It's still very much a work-in-progress, but I like it so far. Plus its been really fun writing it.
I don't get what a Rust GUI would give you, in this case?
Nothing besides convenience. As a rule of thumb I would love to have editor I find suiting my needs and ideally it would be easy to me to contribute/adjust it to my needs.
Regarding [Neo]Vim - I don't think core is something I would touch a lot. Most likely UI/GUI stuff and plugins (vimscripts etc ..). Due to the nature of vimscripts I would prefer to hack around it in something like Python, Lua or Rust.
My personal subjective judgement:
- Disclaimer: I'm mostly Java, C#, Python developer
- I find C++ codebase too hard to follow and understand. I like C, but it lacks syntax sugar etc...
- I find Rust promising (hopefully it's something I will be able to read relatively easy and hopefully it would be easier to reason about,especially in regard to memory management).