Re:New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm
by bee_rider on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @12:48AM
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I don’t think anyone cares about emacs vs vim anymore. (Because that would require caring about emacs even a little bit). It is now VSCode vs neovim and it seems like a tough fight.
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Clearly! Emacs has won but the fight for the second place is fierce.
I'm on the verge of converting. I'm sick of vscode using 4-6 CPU cores at 100% when I'm not doing anything.
Do you think drawing a cursor is free ? Think again. /s
I'm conceited enough that lately I've been thinking, "maybe I should just write a text editor. It can't be that hard."
I tried a new text editor today that's written in rust. I downloaded the tar.gz and it just had a single executable binary in it It doesn't feel any more responsive than vscode, but at least its rust extension seems to work. I wrote like 20 lines of rust without any borrow checker errors so it was a good day?
Back when I worked on space ships, I used gedit and grep. That was before gedit's UI got butchered. Those were the good old days I guess.
neovim. I'm still trying to help my friends work through their guilt over running VScode at all.