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- Just tried it out in linux, its very fast and responsive. It would be awesome if it has LSP support though
- can you talk about why you do this in assembly?by rgbrgb
- Very nice project. A feature suggestion: add context variables (${file}, ${fileBasename}, ${workspaceFolder}) so that I can run external commands on the opened file.
- - now imagine building entire systems tailored to each OS in just assembly
- imagine the next gen browser built in only assembly with a browser engine made in assembly
- imagine photoshop, illustrator, movie maker built ground up in assembly
- imagine an entire windows 12 operating system made in pure assembly
- the performance profile of each of the above must be absolutely wild
- since i am an an absolute newbie at assembly at this point, a sincere question to the some of the more englightened ones reading this, how and where do you recommend I learn assembly? I understand its different for x86 x64 and ARM? where should I start?
by vivzkestrel - …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 - 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.
Edit: Downloaded, running under Windows.
Impressive. Loads fast, looks pretty polished. Highlighting for many languages included "obscure" ones that I sometimes use.
Mem used: 7.9MB (gvim 12.2MB, emacs 35.5MB, vscodium 291.1MB)
by jrapdx3 - This is amazing. I think that the binary itself is just 980kb, which is such a fresh breath of air. I think that I am fairly impressed by the project!
Some few features that I would love to have for myself is if it can support remote development similar to zed[0] using ssh
and if possibly, LSP support can be added.
I also think that this project can be used as the base support for many things and not just an editor as initial inspiration (sort of as a way to bootstrap a way to create extremely minimalist applications with themes and everything!)
I wish luck to the project and I might even start to daily drive it, there are many ideas that I can think of which I wish to add on top of it (I wish to create a scratch-pad app which can automatically save the files and I wouldn't have to prompt it), I had built it in Odin[1] but I feel like writing it on top of rhun might be easier as well
or a markdown editor similar to a more barebones version of obsidian/notion also come to my mind (If you are interested, please, do create something like this. QTmarkdown is one of the more minimalist things that I use but nearly all of these aren't really as minimalist as I would want them to and I think that rhun can help in it.)
Thanks once again and have a nice day! Man, do I love hackernews for these type of creative projects :-D