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Re: Lapce

#21
post #4

Find a way to port plugins from VSC and I'm in!

That will take a long time because plugins [1][2] are written in Rust too, e.g. Go LSP plugin [3][4]. [1] https://plugins.lapce.dev [2] https://github.com/lapce-community [3] https://plugins.lapce.dev/plugins/panekj/lapce-go [4] https://github.com/lapce-community/lapce-go/blob/volt/src/ma...

From the landing page:

"You can write a plugin for Lapce with any programing language that compiles to WASI."

Re: Lapce

#22

Just installed this on windows 10. First time I tried to open it the window hung for 3 minutes until I killed it. The second time, I couldn't reposition the window by clicking and dragging. Third time I loaded it, it hung again. It's an exciting product pitch but isn't working for me. I see now that there's a "pre-alpha stage" disclaimer on the download page and wish that were in larger font.

For an editor whose differentiating factor appears to be "written in Rust", having a first-time user experience of crashing/hanging is unfortunate.

Re: Lapce

#23

Just installed this on windows 10. First time I tried to open it the window hung for 3 minutes until I killed it. The second time, I couldn't reposition the window by clicking and dragging. Third time I loaded it, it hung again. It's an exciting product pitch but isn't working for me. I see now that there's a "pre-alpha stage" disclaimer on the download page and wish that were in larger font.

How is a project with 30,000 GH stars a pre-alpha stage project?

Re: Lapce

#25
I am constantly confused by text editors pitching themselves on speed. Is the world really full of developers going crazy with frustration because they’re waiting on vs code to do something? I opened a 100,000 line text file a few days ago & it rendered in like half a second, considering I do this about once a year it’s really more than good enough.

Re: Lapce

#26
I still don't understand how Zed or Lapse can build a viable business out of an OSS editor but at the same time there is an OSS VC funded Python linter so it's probably me.

Re: Lapce

#27
No thanks, I don't want fake open-source apps anymore.

Some fake open-source software that are actually in it for the money:

- Langchain (and most "open-source" LLM software)

- Zed

Re: Lapce

#28

Just installed this on windows 10. First time I tried to open it the window hung for 3 minutes until I killed it. The second time, I couldn't reposition the window by clicking and dragging. Third time I loaded it, it hung again. It's an exciting product pitch but isn't working for me. I see now that there's a "pre-alpha stage" disclaimer on the download page and wish that were in larger font.

Not sure if you tried the installer or the portable version, but for me, running the latter required me to put it in a location where it had permissions to create the 'lapce-data' sub-folder. (And no, there was no sensible error message when that inevitably failed).

Having said that, there doesn't seem to be very much "there" there, right now. I managed to open a C# project using the 'csharp-ls' language server, but, other than suggesting some refactorings that I couldn't successfully apply, there wasn't much that indicated that this actually worked. Debugging certainly didn't.

It did load very fast, though, so that might make it worth checking out again in, oh, a year or so...

Re: Lapce

#30

I am constantly confused by text editors pitching themselves on speed. Is the world really full of developers going crazy with frustration because they’re waiting on vs code to do something? I opened a 100,000 line text file a few days ago & it rendered in like half a second, considering I do this about once a year it’s really more than good enough.

Nowadays I just assume "lighting fast" means "written in Rust". Even if it's actually slower than the status quo.

I'm a Rust fanboy, so not dunking on Rust. Just an observation.

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