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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by hdjrudni on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:18AM (#29549772)
Ya...it's going downhill :-( I liked it as a lightweight editor. Now it's just another IDE. But instead I have to sift through thousands of half-baked 3rd party plugins to get the functions I need. Editors/IDEs should do one thing or the either well.
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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by Philip-J-Fry on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:24AM (#29549803)
>But instead I have to sift through thousands of half-baked 3rd party plugins to get the functions I need

That's the entire point? The functions don't exist because it's supposed to be lightweight.

If you're finding that you need 20+ plugins to add features then I've got news for you, you're looking for an IDE that has all these built in by default.

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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by fileeditview on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:22AM (#29550159)
Not OP but..

I have certainly around 20 plugins in my Vim and it runs faster than Usain Bolt.

I agree with your first point but the IDE argument is wrong. I could use 100 plugins and it still would not be an IDE nor would I want one.

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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust by coldtea on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:36AM (#29550229)
>* If you're finding that you need 20+ plugins to add features then I've got news for you, you're looking for an IDE that has all these built in by default.*

I also have news for you, VS Code's whole selling point was "built-your-own-IDE" and big plugin ecosystem, not "here's yet another lightweight editor".

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