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Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by coldtea »

Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #15
hdjrudni wrote: post #12

Earlier 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.

>* 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.*

I also have news for you, VS Code's whole selling point was "built-your-own-IDE" and big plugin ecosystem, not "here's yet another lightweight editor".

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by coldtea »

monopoledance wrote: post #49
jokoon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>Personally, I just don't feel comfortable working with sensitive information or proto-executables in closed-source software.

So, just how the biggest companies, banks, governments, etc. in the world work (using e.g. Excel, Word, Visual Studio, etc)...

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by Hendrikto »

amelius wrote: post #34
DeathArrow wrote: post #5

This feels like fresh air compared to tons of tools written in Javascript and running in a browser.

Seems like you have been picking the wrong tool for the job.

Seems like Atom and VSCode picked the wrong tool for the job.

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by Ygg2 »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #13
debdut wrote: post #4

VS 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 :)

VS Code isn't bloated if you never install any extension. You can't hold Microsoft responsible for third party bloat.

But not using a single plugin is near impossible.

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by rapsey »

chrysoprace wrote: post #33

Xi, the backend that it's built on, is unfortunately in maintenance mode and it seems like it has been for a while now.

Druid is also in a poor state at the moment (it pulls master from git) and it's not using wgpu at all. I assume it used to use a piet wgpu branch but it is not anymore.

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by Hendrikto »

throw_m239339 wrote: post #13
debdut wrote: post #4

VS 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 :)

VS Code isn't bloated if you never install any extension. You can't hold Microsoft responsible for third party bloat.

Well… it‘s built on Electron. If your editor comes with its own browser, that‘s bloat.

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by akmittal »

stormbrew wrote: post #32
mikeyjk wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jetbrains is trying to catch up on this, and in some cases has.

If I escape vscode I'd rather it be to something lighter rather than heavier. I used sublime before vscode and I'm tired of my editor using up half my ram.

I think above comment is about jetBrains fleet. VSCode alternative written in kotlin

Re: Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

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Post by jonpalmisc »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #35
dzhou121 wrote: post #3

Author 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.

Edit: Alright nevermind just saw in the repo that the UI is in Druid, have a nice day and again thank you

Care to elaborate on what's wrong with Druid?
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