Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim?

Re:Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim? by gnusouth on Saturday November 08, 2014 @12:27PM (#8577504)

If I were to rewrite vim I would want to avoid C/C++ and all their warts. A Rust text-editor with guaranteed memory safety would be cool.

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Re:Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim? by Artemis2 on Saturday November 08, 2014 @01:28PM (#8577711)

Your OS is written in C/C++. When you know what you are doing, these languages are not harmful.

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Re:Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim? by gnusouth on Monday November 10, 2014 @12:49AM (#8582195)

Yeah, and every third boot my display manager segfaults :P

I know it's possible to write good systems software in C/C++, I just think writing in Rust is a marked improvement.

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