Shameless plug: I did a series a couple years back, before AI was this huge, about writing a Vim-like editor in Rust, in case you want to play with it in the future:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9KpW-9Hl_het1V3_dLhG...
Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#22I'm a little annoyed that for a Rust based tool the recommended installation command is to use npm. Why? Is Cargo not good enough? Cargo seems exceptionally well to me.
I did it because not everybody has cargo installed. I'm using cargo-dist to create this npm package.
consider wget or curl if possible (why not if npm was...)
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That (security ) is something I also worry about. I'd like to get off npm if only for this reason. It's a hack to get started. The other thing it gives you is the ability to easily upgrade and uninstall so just a script to copy stuff is not on par.
Thing is… who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date? I wouldn’t, because I might be in a repo and it starts upgrading all my local dependencies, and I’m not gonna add a text editor as a dev dependency. I’ll happily take the binary, or a tar.gz with the binary in it, though. (Btw I love how it’s following the old DOS aesthetic)
The npm distribution here is just the binary, you run npm install again and it upgrades to the latest binary. That's convenient
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did it because not everybody has cargo installed. I'm using cargo-dist to create this npm package.
I've been wanting a generic package manager for a while that is cross-platform. I wonder how one could find funding for such a project. Thinking about users from various OS' installing tools and software from your niche package manager, yeah that bad boy is going to grind to a halt if you have no key funding.
Artifactory exists. It's not hard to store packages and metadata somewhere.
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#25The look reminds me of Turbo Pascal. Without the bright blue color.
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#26The look reminds me of Turbo Pascal. Without the bright blue color.
Check out the nostalgia theme, built in: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sinelaw/fresh/refs/heads/m...
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#27400mb executable for a terminal text editor?
Modern developers have lost their mind
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#28Interesting license choice, would why did you choose version 2 instead of 3?
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#29> I did a quick benchmark loading a 2GB log file with ANSI color codes... Emacs: Load Time: ~10 seconds | Memory: ~2 GB
Now try opening it in Emacs with vlf [1] ;) Great work overall — looking forward to seeing further development!
Re: Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
#30I'm a little annoyed that for a Rust based tool the recommended installation command is to use npm. Why? Is Cargo not good enough? Cargo seems exceptionally well to me.
I did it because not everybody has cargo installed. I'm using cargo-dist to create this npm package.
Is there a way to install it with cargo instead? I won't install npm on my machine just to install a Rust package