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- …is it fast? Why assembly? Impressive, regardless!
“Super responsive, minimal-by-default” is kinda already met by Sublime Text, but it’s certainly not in assembly lol. And not OSS — thanks for sharing your work with the world :)
by bbor - People... I just tried it... It is SOOO FAST !!!by gespadas
- Assembly plus platform translation, hmmm. I don’t get it but that’s a heck of a thing to do! And yes, I’ll try it.
- can you talk about why you do this in assembly?by rgbrgb
- The plan is to add as less new features as possible and keep the same performance/launch time/memory and disk footprint as it is currently.by vladcodes
- I'll have to try it.
It occurs to me that in this era of RAM hardware shortage, resource-frugal applications like this one could become more prevalent.
Anyway I guess we'll see if that happens.
by jrapdx3 - If you use an LLM to write assembly, it is officially your (optimizing?) compiler :)by haolez
- Ok wow I am in love! Not just it’s fast, but also it automatically detected the AI session that’s actively working! Might ditch zed now!by tamimio