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Re: Zas Editor

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Post by Annili »

johnsea wrote: post #116
Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

Can't you add some sort of impressum to the website where you give some information about you?

Added my info on the contact page

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by newlisp »

jhoechtl wrote: post #120
8fingerlouie wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've certainly been down that rabbithole. Started with Vim, planned on eventually learning Emacs (still do), and then to whatever editor was "flavor of the month", including TextMate and Sublime Text. Sublime Text was great in it's day, and i still hold a license for the latest version, but it is caught in a death spiral it seems. Whenever i check if it "does X", it turns out it maybe does, but VS Code has a much bet…

I currently settle on Emacs (again) after three years of NeoVim. LSP is so much better integrated and works for my needs out of the box. I currently don't miss treesitter, expect for semantic selections at point. But I realized I could get rid of a massive and ever changing NeoVim configuration mess. Using Emacs 29 though.

With Evil? is it any good?

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by notimetorelax »

Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

Hi, the image in “Simplicity of Command Line + Expressivity of Graphical UIs.” section is not cropped leading to horizontal scroll on mobile.

Re: Zas Editor

#126

Post by isodev »

Annili wrote: post #122
johnsea wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't you add some sort of impressum to the website where you give some information about you?

Added my info on the contact page

Could you also include a privacy policy and more information about telemetry or data collection?

Re: Zas Editor

#127

Post by cutler »

isaacimagine wrote: post #66

From the domain name I confused this with the Zed editor[0] for a second. Despite both being editors written in Rust with zed* domain names, they are different. Really interested in both projects though. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29566960

The soon to be sanctioned Zed editor.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by pjmlp »

mindwok wrote: post #85
pjmlp wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two language development stack, with the complexity it entails, when the product is mac only.

They mentioned elsewhere it started off as a fork of the Xi editor which is written in Rust. Xi separates the text-editor idea into backend and frontend, and Xi itself is primarily the Rust-based backend which concerns itself with making editing operations very fast, and then you can write a front-end client for whatever language/platform you want. In this case, they can use a fast Rust backend for multiple platforms…

Which is why I made the point on my comment about what the cross platform goals were, but the RIR folks are too quick to jump the gun in any kind of critic and only read half of it.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by wiz21c »

jhoechtl wrote: post #120
8fingerlouie wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've certainly been down that rabbithole. Started with Vim, planned on eventually learning Emacs (still do), and then to whatever editor was "flavor of the month", including TextMate and Sublime Text. Sublime Text was great in it's day, and i still hold a license for the latest version, but it is caught in a death spiral it seems. Whenever i check if it "does X", it turns out it maybe does, but VS Code has a much bet…

I currently settle on Emacs (again) after three years of NeoVim. LSP is so much better integrated and works for my needs out of the box. I currently don't miss treesitter, expect for semantic selections at point. But I realized I could get rid of a massive and ever changing NeoVim configuration mess. Using Emacs 29 though.

I'm locked in emacs (joke intended).

But I must admit that my rust/LSP experience with Emacs doesn't hold 5 seconds in front of what I've just seen on the Zas website...

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