There's some cool things to note about Xi which make me more excited about it:

  * It's being written by Raph Levien, known for his work on Inconsolata, Ghostscript, and font-rs[1] among other things.
  * The design goals include incredibly high performance, beauty, reliability and developer friendliness[2].
  * It's very fast at handling large files, though the editor is still missing a lot of functionality.

Raph was also interviewed on the New Rustacean podcast[3] and talks a fair bit about Xi.

  [1]: https://github.com/google/font-rs
  [2]: https://github.com/google/xi-editor#a-modern-editor-with-a-backend-written-in-rust
  [3]: http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/interview/_2/part_1/index.html