ONoneshtein·Aug 18, 2023
> Rust
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gchp / iota
iota
A terminal-based text editor written in Rust
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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7 sources> but I'm sure it won't be able to open a 1KB text file instantaneously in 5 years
Unless you decide to switch to a modern console-based text editor. It doesn't have to be vim or emacs. There are many other alternatives. One new such (written-in-Rust) editor being Iota: https://github.com/gchp/iota
In Your CPU may have slowed down on WednesdayFor another small rust text editor project see Iota: https://github.com/gchp/iota
In Show HN: Amp – A text editor for your terminal, written in RustDo you have syntax highlighting on? I've seen huge speed-ups with large files when the editor doesn't have to try parse & highlight everything.
I agree that its annoying though. I've started writing my own text editor, and aim to solve this problem. Not quite at that point yet, however! https://github.com/gchp/iota
/shameless plug
In Ask HN: Best Multi-Core Text Editor?I'm currently building a similar project in Rust called iota: https://github.com/gchp/iota
I don't intend it to be a vim clone, however I'm currently adding some features which I've borrowed from vim. The main one being modal editing. Its much earlier on than this project, though.
As a side note, building a text editor is great fun, one of the most interesting projects I've worked on!
In Design of a Vim-like text editorI'm pretty stoked about this. I've been following Rust since 0.4, and it's been super fun to play around with. I have two major problems with it, but none of them are Rust's fault -- purely flaws of my own:
1) I have no idea what to do with it. I'm primarily a web developer, and I really want to get into systems programming, but I have no idea what to do with it or where to start. I wound up implementing about 50 different Rosetta Code things in Rust 0.9 and 0.10, but I still never came up with a really solid use-case that I could start and finish.
That said, I've been really impressed by rust-doom (https://github.com/cristicbz/rust-doom) and the new Iota editor (https://github.com/gchp/iota), and I wish I had the know-how to even start down that path.
2) Given that the last time I touched systems programming was in college (15 years ago)
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, I've found it difficult to wrap my head around some of the concepts (ownership in particular). I actually hung out in the IRC chat room for awhile, but I felt more than a few times that people were treating me like an idiot because of my questions ("Ha! You did X? Why in the world would you do that??"), so I wound up not really going back. I'm sure it was all my imagination and that I'm just being sensitive, but I think it would be very helpful to have more people interested in getting new people on board -- specifically people like me, with over a decade of programming experience in higher-level languages.
I guess the TLDR of this is: I love Rust, but I don't know what to do with it.
Congrats to the Rust team, though. 1.0 is a huge milestone. Good job!
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