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I don't want to speak too much for raphlinus here [1], but I don't think it was ever the goal to make an editor that gets a lot of downloads like a startup pitc

I don't want to speak too much for raphlinus here [1], but I don't think it was ever the goal to make an editor that gets a lot of downloads like a startup pitching a product. All the things you've listed are non-goals, or at least lower-priority goals. The goal was to make an editor based on sound technology principles, and that included investigating said technology principles. It turned out some of those principles were bad ideas, and that's that. [1]: My involvement with xi was limited to being part of conversations he had about rendering performance on Windows in the winapi crate's IRC channel.

raphlinus 6y ago
This is a bit complicated. My main goal was to make something good. I would have liked it to be so good that lots of people would use it, but I wasn't optimizing for popularity, and, indeed, had I been, I would have done quite a few things very differently. Also, thanks for those early winapi discussions. The attitude of Rust towards winapi is one of the early reasons I started seeing Rust as being viable for actually building GUI.
rvz 6y ago
That's a long way of saying it's a 'research project' or an 'experimental text editor' written in Rust.