"The editor is written as if it's a game, so it will probably eat up your battery, as well as run possibly quite slow - especially if you dont have a dedicated GPU - and probably crash frequently."
Can't quite understand what it wants to be, a fast editor that's minimal or one that's like a game and kills my battery and run slow?
> Incredibly high performance. All editing operations should commit and paint in under 16ms. The editor should never make you wait for anything.
> Reliability. Crashing, hanging, or losing work should never happen.
My point is it's not like they are intending Phi to replace sublime, they're probably just doing it for fun. Even if they are more serious, they're being honest about its short comings right now.
I think the Phi page is just including "current state of editor" as well as "aimed for state of editor" in the README.
sublime, for comparison, is very snappy on the file.
i also tried it out on a pathological json file, which is just one line, 429984 characters long. it hung xi for a long time, and when it loaded, was very slow. again, sublime is completely snappy on the file.
probably not worth a bug since i think it's related to long-line support, which i think is already on your radar?
(i hope my comment didn't come across as overly negative. i am very excited about xi! :-)
It can be a minimal and fast editor in terms of text operations.
It can be a heavy and slow editor in terms of screen rendering.
There is no inherent reason why, as it matures, it couldn’t become lighter and faster overall compared to other editors, since it actually uses available modern hardware.