The killer feature for me is not being an Electron app.
Neither is kate.
Nor vim nor emacs for that matter.
Yup. I use Emacs since 2002 and am pretty happy with it. Never used an Electron-based app and probably never will.
Not everything has to have a killer feature. It's an oper-source project, not a for-profit startup
this is the one
> You can write a plugin for Lapce with any programing language that compiles to WASI
though faster and slicker than Electron would also be nice. A helix-like as opposed to vim-like mode as well
> A helix-like as opposed to vim-like mode as well
Discussed here: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/281
I'd say it's either "VS Code, but with better performance / resource usage" or "Sublime Text, but open source"
Re:Lapce Editor 0.3
by whywhywhywhy on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:32AM
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> Or is it just "something like vs code but in Rust and faster and slicker"?
By that logic wasn't the "killer feature" of VSCode just "something like Atom but in Typescript and faster and slicker"?
I'd give it a try, but I am very happy using Helix, which is pretty novel in its own right.