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RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien

Confreaks · 42.7K views · 2016-10-04 · 36:16

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Overview

Raph Levien presents Xi editor at RustConf 2016, a high-performance text editor built in Rust. The talk goes into technical details, building polished GUI apps, and running a community-focused open source project.

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HN lists it among good resources on building text editors and as a recommended lunch-and-learn talk.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2018

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesTesting, debugging & developer toolsSoftware performance & optimization
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steveklabnik · 2018-04 · Recommendation

We had a talk at RustConf previously about the Xi editor; it uses an immutable data structure to handle text. It's a video but the author lays out the details here: [VIDEO] They make an interesting argument about how Rust makes it easier and nicer to write these kinds of structures. It's still an area of exploration in Rust generally though; I wouldn't say immutable data structures are idiomatic, but that's also just because we haven't had a ton of easy ones to use, so nobody uses them. So we'll see!

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kartD · 2017-09 · Recommendation

Little drunk so bear with me :) Rich Hickey: Clojure concurrency[ [LINK] ] Keynote - Rust: confident, productive systems programming by Aaron Turon [ [LINK] ] RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien [ [VIDEO] ] Microservices at Netflix Scale: Principles, Tradeoffs & Lessons Learned[ [LINK] ] What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services[ [LINK] ] Dynamic Code Optimization and the NVIDIA Denver Processor [ [LINK] ] * if you can get anything on Apple's Ax series that's even better

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MildlySerious · 2016-10 · Recommendation

There's a talk about it, too, if interested: [VIDEO] I'm hoping to find the time to get more comfortable with Rust and try to contribute at some point

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