"Step 1: Install NodeJS" I think what got people excited about Xi with Ropes and CRDT and Rust was that it was going to be a modern codebase with performance.

"Step 1: Install NodeJS" I think what got people excited about Xi with Ropes and CRDT and Rust was that it was going to be a modern codebase with performance. Now that Moore's Law is buried next to Denard scaling, we need less software written with time-to-MVP in mind and more software written with performance in mind. Software is used a lot more than it's created. If I looked at editors like emacs and vi/vim/neovim, and tried to calculate the person-decades spent making them vs. the person-millennia spent using it, it's quite clear that optimizing for the single-core performance we have today pays off tomorrow when singe-core performance is 10% faster.