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Dude. TFA is literally about the core data structures for a text editor. Many people care about large text files. It's something people actually do. BBEdit on t
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Dude. TFA is literally about the core data structures for a text editor. Many people care about large text files. It's something people actually do. BBEdit on the Mac can edit files much larger than RAM without thrashing. If you don't want to support text editors, that's fine, but then what is your rope library for?
- josephg 3y agoGood question. I wrote it to support my work on highly efficient text CRDTs for collaborative editing. I wrote a blog post about it a few years ago, though this is out of date now since I’ve made so many new performance improvements: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/ https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/