Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
by gsliepen on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:44AM
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This looks very nice. However, the description mentions "lightning fast" and "powerful". Unfortunately, those things don't mean anything without further clarification. If you really want to show your editor is faster than other commonly used editors, consider posting a benchmark of cases where speed matters (like loading a large file, inserting in the middle of a large file, search/replace, latency of pressing a key and having the screen updated, and so on). It is harder to quantify "power" though.
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Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
by DrBazza on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:00AM
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Standard rust marketing, it's a bit tedious tbh, and I don't think anyone who is honest is surprised any more. Everything is "lightning fast" by default just because it compiles to native. I thought we were past that. Never mind that you can write crap code in any language (not making any comment about the editor's author here).
Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
by Aeolun on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:20AM
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I still prefer crap lightning fast code to crap tediously slow code though. If the only thing people do is build a native application instead of a webapp and that speeds my stuff up by 80% then that'll make me very happy.
Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
by DrBazza on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:11AM
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That reminds me of the (current) top-most comment in the `drgn` thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29537594
"just keep rebooting to solve the problem, rather than fix it"
Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
by Dylan16807 on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:31AM
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When "lightning fast" just means native, then it could very easily be slower than a webapp that uses a more fitting algorithm.
Re:Lapce – Fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
by IshKebab on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @08:32AM
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It's not just marketing. Rust tools like Tokei and Ripgrep are lightning fast. It's partly because it compiles to native - that applies to C/C++ too, e.g. Git is "lightning fast" compared to Mercurial. But it's also because Rust lets you do multi-threading without going insane.