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Raph Levien presents Xi editor at RustConf 2016, a high-performance text editor built in Rust. The talk goes into technical details, building polished GUI apps, and running a community-focused open source project.
HN lists it among good resources on building text editors and as a recommended lunch-and-learn talk.
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Little drunk so bear with me :) Rich Hickey: Clojure concurrency[ [LINK] ] Keynote - Rust: confident, productive systems programming by Aaron Turon [ [LINK] ] RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien [ this video ] Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned[ [LINK] ] What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services[ [LINK] ] Dynamic Code Optimization and the NVIDIA Denver Processor [ [LINK] ] * if you can get anything on Apple's Ax series that's even better
We had a talk at RustConf previously about the Xi editor; it uses an immutable data structure to handle text. It's a video but the author lays out the details here: this video They make an interesting argument about how Rust makes it easier and nicer to write these kinds of structures. It's still an area of exploration in Rust generally though; I wouldn't say immutable data structures are idiomatic, but that's also just because we haven't had a ton of easy ones to use, so nobody uses them. So we'll see!
What are some good resources to learn more about the inner workings of text editors or building one from scratch? So far I've found and enjoyed reading/watching the resources below and would love to learn more. * The Craft of Text Editing: [LINK] * Writing a Text Editor From Scratch: [LINK] * A Modern Text Editor Built in Rust: this video
There's a talk about it, too, if interested: this video I'm hoping to find the time to get more comfortable with Rust and try to contribute at some point