There has been a resurgence of native editors these days (Helix, Nova, …).
Every time I rush to check if there are vim keybindings. It's a dealbreaker otherwise!
Zas Editor
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#22Hi 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…
For the rope, are you using xi-rope, ropey, or did you roll your own? Any thoughts on how you made that decision? Glad to see stuff like this, it brings back memories.
Hi Raph. It amazing to see you here and thank you for all the xi crates.
> Any thoughts on how you made that decision?
The reason behind that is Zas Editor started out as a fork of Xi Editor! We're also using a fork of xi-rope, though we haven't made many changes to it.
If you would like to discuss this more, DM me at twitter @ZasEditor
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#23All of the chrome and tailfin is fine, but if it doesn't work well headless over ssh and emulate vi, then I'm not the audience.
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#24There has been a resurgence of native editors these days (Helix, Nova, …). Every time I rush to check if there are vim keybindings. It's a dealbreaker otherwise!
I believe Nova added support for vim keybindings recently. We're going to add vim keybindings soon. In fact, we're starting to regret not implementing the functionality for this release!
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#25This looks really good. I was a major fan of Coda, but I’ve been disappointed with Nova, so I’m looking for something else.
The fact that this isn’t saddled with subscription pricing is a huge plus. I don’t even consider software I can’t own; $24.99 as a one-time payment with a year of updates is more than fair.
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#26This looks really good. I was a major fan of Coda, but I’ve been disappointed with Nova, so I’m looking for something else. The fact that this isn’t saddled with subscription pricing is a huge plus. I don’t even consider software I can’t own; $24.99 as a one-time payment with a year of updates is more than fair.
This is one of the reasons I like JetBrains subscription service. Even if you stop paying, you get a fallback license that updates every year (I believe); so you have perpetual access to their product, even if slightly out of date.
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#27Hi 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…
How long did it take you to build it?
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#28For those wondering, Zas only supports Rust and Google Go for now.
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#29I don't see myself switching from VSCode any time soon. The plug in system is just too amazing, too vast. I understand how hard it would be to create something competitive.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry to hear that. At the moment only Go and Rust are supported. We are currently working on plugins. What did you think about the Rust & Go support? Would you use it for Python if we add support?
I'm wondering why no support for LSP and DAP? Is it missing feature you guys need?
We are using LSP under the hood, but you can't add more language servers yourself. AS for DAP, a debugger would be a huge feature to implement, we wanted to get it right before releasing it.