Mawww's experiment for a better code editor

This is very interesting.

My question is, could this be implemented on top of an existing editor, like Sublime or Atom?

I'm guessing that that would lower the barrier of entry for most people, including me. (I for example, found the demo video very interesting, but knowing that I'd then have to give up all the customizations I've built up in my favorite editor, I was a bit discouraged to actually try it.)

Wow, this actually looks really neat. I have been playing around with it for a few minutes and it seems _much_ more usable than I was expecting from an "experiment".

It would be nice to see some comments from the author(s) on the current stability/roadmap. Or at least a proper release; am I using alpha-quality software here, or what? I don't always like to be running my workhorse software tools on the bleeding edge of the developer's repository.

I'm no developer but I've been using kakoune for editing for the past month or two and the experience is very good. Mawww has been working on the editor for the past 3 years so it's in a pretty good shape. Programming-wise there's syntax highlighting for many languages already, check out https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/tree/master/rc for a list. Adding a basic syntax highlighter is simple enough as well. IDE-wise you'll get the best experience when writing c/c++ I think as the author does that and put a lot of effort in it running smoothly. Editing-wise I like the features more than vim's or emacs'. Working with multiple selections is very effective, fast and fun. Stability-wise I don't think you have to worry too much anymore, there's occasional bugs that are fixed very quickly and the key bindings are pretty much set (there's a minor change every now and then when implementing new bindings but nothing major). Customizing-wise there's enough options and they are quite well thought out. There's no vimscript or elisp, for the design choices check out https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/doc/design.asci... . The author is also very responsive to suggestions and is implementing features the users are asking for (if they make sense and conform to the design of course).

Is Mawww someone I should know about?

This looks awesome.

Honestly, us and our tools obsession (take that how you will).