I actually contributed quite a bit to a fork of godit called vigo [0]. It gave me lots of insight into how text editors work.
When I went to start writing Iota, I found that there was no termbox-type library in Rust, so I created a wrapper [1]. My goal is to create a pure-Rust version, similar to termbox-go. It's a long way from that, but it will get there!
I initially found it much harder to work with Rust, as the language is more strict in a number of ways. But once I began to understand how it works, and began to grasp some of its concepts such as ownership and lifetimes I found it much more powerful than Go.
Go has a larger community right now, many more libraries and resources openly available. That's probably one of Rust's downsides right now however its catching up, especially with the launch of crates.io. I don't think it will be long in maturing following the 1.0 release.
Saying that, both are enjoyable to work with. But for me Rust wins out!
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I actually contributed quite a bit to a fork of godit called vigo [0]. It gave me lots of insight into how text editors work.
When I went to start writing Iota, I found that there was no termbox-type library in Rust, so I created a wrapper [1]. My goal is to create a pure-Rust version, similar to termbox-go. It's a long way from that, but it will get there!
[0]: http://github.com/kisielk/vigo [1]: http://github.com/gchp/rustbox.
Cool! So, you're a perfect position to compare your experiences writing text editors in both languages :)
(Although Go is more mature at this point)
I guess you could say that!
I initially found it much harder to work with Rust, as the language is more strict in a number of ways. But once I began to understand how it works, and began to grasp some of its concepts such as ownership and lifetimes I found it much more powerful than Go.
Go has a larger community right now, many more libraries and resources openly available. That's probably one of Rust's downsides right now however its catching up, especially with the launch of crates.io. I don't think it will be long in maturing following the 1.0 release.
Saying that, both are enjoyable to work with. But for me Rust wins out!
Well, I had an implementation of termbox for `bisschen` (a mail viewer on top of notmuch), but that was pre-cargo and I don't work on it anymore:
https://github.com/skade/bisschen/tree/master/src/libtermbox