There finally starts to be consciousness about input and output latency for GUI applications.
Xi sounds like an editor I'd love to use. Latency while typing is a jarring experience.
Xi sounds like an editor I'd love to use. Latency while typing is a jarring experience.
This is so true.
I grew up on the Commodore 64. The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers could do, this would certainly have been on the list.
Now, 30 years later, whenever my cursor gets stuck I like to think:
"If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption..."
I'm talking 100-800ms. I was so off-put, even after changing a few settings, that I returned to Notepad++ for a while.
I'd never been so disgusted at a piece of software. It's the 21st century and we're dealing with input latency in a text editor???
Eventually they seemed to fix things and it started running better, and now on Linux it runs buttery smooth and is a joy to use, but clearly they were not finished with their work by the time this article was published.
Somehow got accustomed to to pretty much vanilla Sublime, mostly because I can't seem to get the language "intelligence" plugins to work correctly.
What did you find bad about it? If it was just input latency, that's fixed.
Fuschia front-end client for Xi: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/topaz/+/master/app/xi/
Thumbs up!