>>>[Design Decisions] ...The back-end needs to be extremely performant. In particular, it should use little more memory than the buffers being edited. That leve

>>>[Design Decisions] ...The back-end needs to be extremely performant. In particular, it should use little more memory than the buffers being edited. That level of performance is possible in C++, but Rust offers a much more reliable, and in many ways, higher level programming platform... Google not prepared to eat their own [gopher-flavoured] dog food then?