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).
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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.