Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal

Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by Cyphase on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:04AM (#18508806)

I think one of the main reasons it exists is that it's written in Rust. One clue is that the TLD is .rs, plus there's been a lot of "a <type-of-program> written in Rust" lately. Which is fine; it's just an observation. I myself am going to be getting into Rust soon, hopefully.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by wasted_intel on Thursday November 22, 2018 @08:18AM (#18509807)

Yes, this is definitely one reason. At the time, I was interested in working on Vim, but it's hard to make changes to a C codebase and be confident you won't introduce segfaults or subtle memory safety issues.

Rust's "hack without fear" mantra definitely applied here. :)

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by monotypical on Thursday November 22, 2018 @06:45AM (#18509408)

being written in rust might make it more appealing to develop, but it doesn't give any benefit to the user and I can't see it being a reason for someone to use this over vim

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by DC-3 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:44AM (#18509650)

Rust programs tend to be more stable, more efficient, and more highly parallelized than equivalents written in other languages by developers of the same quality.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by __Joker on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:54AM (#18509690)

Again, I am not sure when is the last time vim crashed on my *nix set up. Not trying to sound unreasonable but in this argument of VIM/amp it might not be relevant.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by gdfasfklshg4 on Thursday November 22, 2018 @08:05AM (#18509746)

It depends upon plugins. My Vim is quite prone to crashing but I'm fairly sure it is one of my plugins.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by petepete on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:13AM (#18510065)

Yeah, more than likely. I'm down to just a handful of plugins and don't recall it crashing in the last couple of years, and I use it a lot.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by z3phyr on Thursday November 22, 2018 @09:46AM (#18510251)

False advertisement is false. Please refrain from such statements as it actually hurts the language more.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by gpm on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:38AM (#18510574)

I think that that statement is true, the "tend to" and "same quality" are very important qualifiers though.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by tendencydriven on Thursday November 22, 2018 @05:31AM (#18509154)

I think it's a lot easier for someone to learn a new language, or learn the benefits of a new language, by recreating something which already exists.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by ranza on Thursday November 22, 2018 @06:37AM (#18509377)

I usually go for irc bots when trying to learn a new language. I already know the api and the thought process which makes it easier.

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Re:Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal by danellis on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:40AM (#18509630)

> there's been a lot of "a <type-of-program> written in Rust" lately

It's the new Go.

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