No windows build?
Yes but not sure it works for you
Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
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Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#42Author here. I didn't expect this will go on Hacker News. Although the editor has been my daily drive for almost one year now, it's really rough on the edges. The plugin system as described in the README hasn't been implemented yet.
Lsp support as well ? You have got to be kidding me. How did you add these feature so quickly ?
It probably doesn't have support for the full LSP, which is pretty huge. I imagine just the most useful things like completion and go-to-definition.
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#43No windows build?
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ya...it's going downhill :-( I liked it as a lightweight editor. Now it's just another IDE. But instead I have to sift through thousands of half-baked 3rd party plugins to get the functions I need. Editors/IDEs should do one thing or the either well.
>But instead I have to sift through thousands of half-baked 3rd party plugins to get the functions I need That's the entire point? The functions don't exist because it's supposed to be lightweight. If you're finding that you need 20+ plugins to add features then I've got news for you, you're looking for an IDE that has all these built in by default.
Not OP but..
I have certainly around 20 plugins in my Vim and it runs faster than Usain Bolt.
I agree with your first point but the IDE argument is wrong. I could use 100 plugins and it still would not be an IDE nor would I want one.
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
The bloating cycle should merit its own xkcd comic I guess. VS Code was specifically successful because it was perceived as much less bloated then IDEs, yet much more user friendly than most editors. Now we hear complaints that it is bloated. What will be next?
All "lightweight", "fast" shiny new things are so because they have plenty of missing features. But anyway is it a widespread opinion that VSCode is bloated? Because for me at least it feels fast, especially considering all its features.
A challenge is that we tend to have roughly the same 80 percent point for things like editors, but all want different sets of features for the remaining 20. You then either end up with bloat or extensibility/plugins, or both.
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#46VS Code is so bloated af Waiting for this to be stable! Would love to contribute! Any next features doc, so I can pick a topic and submit some PRs. Awesome work :)
sublime text is the best editor currently, in my view. apart from code folding.
It was my daily driver for programming, editing.. pretty much everything text related until their latest version. Autocomplete became extremely annoying and the editor feels less snappier. After years I ended up switching to VS Code, and I keep sublime text when I quickly want to edit a text file.
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#47> Built in remote development support (inspired by VSCode Remote Development) Well... This has me intrigued. This is basically the only thing that keeps me on vscode.
Sadly can't get it to run on linux :( Lot of garbage about loading font config from /etc/fonts/conf.d/... and then: memory allocation of 18446744073709551615 bytes failed Aborted (core dumped)
Trying to allocate memory the size of an underflowed uint64 does not seem safe. Is this possible in safe Rust code? Is there a Rust build flag that would catch this behavior?
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#48> Built in remote development support (inspired by VSCode Remote Development) Well... This has me intrigued. This is basically the only thing that keeps me on vscode.
Sadly can't get it to run on linux :( Lot of garbage about loading font config from /etc/fonts/conf.d/... and then: memory allocation of 18446744073709551615 bytes failed Aborted (core dumped)
Just need more RAM.
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#49VS Code is so bloated af Waiting for this to be stable! Would love to contribute! Any next features doc, so I can pick a topic and submit some PRs. Awesome work :)
sublime text is the best editor currently, in my view. apart from code folding.
Not FOSS. For many, that's an issue. Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software. I get the appeal, if you come from macOS or Windows, but for Linux it's often the first "dirty" thing you would introduce, so it feels like a big deal.
Btw. I have used Sublime. It is a very nice Editor. Most importantly incredibly snappy and so far no other editor matched Sublime's intuitive `TAB` completion dynamics.
Oh, yeah, and it's fucking expensive...
Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
#50My first thought was, not yet another terminal editor written for fun, but when I read druid, lsp, wasi plug-ins... That sounds very intriguing!
Yeah, this reads like my bucket list of Rust technologies if I ever decided I'd want to implement a text editor. Definitely going to try this out. Thank you for bringing this to our attention, OP!