raphlinus

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1. 1831.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   Probably not a lot. The Swift code is basically for plumbing to the GUI toolkit. All the actual text processing is done in the core.
2. 1832.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   Qt 4 or 5? I had difficulty getting even "hello world" running in 5, and the size of deploy binaries (~16M) was scary. Maybe that doesn't matter so much if it'll primarily be using system libraries.
3. 1833.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   I think a Vim mode will be possible one way or other. I'm not sure having all interaction mediated by plugins is the best way to accomplish it.
4. 1834.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   The main thing I'd add to http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/font-rendering-gdi-vers... is that DirectWrite looks very smooth on high-dpi displays while GDI+ is quite grainy.
5. 1835.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   I'm leaning towards Gtk+ because I'm more familiar with it (I used to be very involved in that community, in fact) and because I know its Unicode support is good.
6. 1836.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   I haven't started implementing plugins yet, so details are still vague. General thoughts, they communicate with the core through a simple JSON-based protocol, so can be written in any language you like. I imagine Python will be one of
7. 1837.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   I've been playing a bit with the various choices (there are so many!) and am leaning in the direction of C# + WPF + Windows.System.Media for the text drawing. Using something based on DirectWrite rather than GDI+ is important to me bec
8. 1838.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   I'm basically planning on following Sublime Text's keybindings except when there's good reason not to.
9. 1839.▲
   by raphlinus 11y ago

   NeoVIM is great, and obviously it has been inspiration. I think it remains to be seen whether NeoVIM can deliver an experience that feels like a modern editor. My experience is that projects which attempt to layer a GUI on top of an existin
10. 1840.▲
    by raphlinus 11y ago

    Rust is working out very well so far. If you look at the rope implementation, you'll see that it's high level and mathematical almost like a functional language, but performance is first-class. I'm also very much looking forw
11. 1841.▲
    by raphlinus 11y ago

    It's a project by a Googler (me), but it's a personal (20%) project, not an official Google one.