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See also Lapce, an editor also written in Rust although it's trying to compete more with VSCode rather than Vim.

Also, RIP OniVim 2, it was great having been written in a similarly fast ReasonML/OCaml but the creator ran out of funding and had to get a job. A shame, it even had compatibility with VSCode extensions.

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Lapce is looking really promising IMO. It's very fast, has single-click support for a few languages (Rust of course) and the UI is surprisingly complete.

Obviously there are still a ton of paper cuts but it's still very impressive and they are very welcoming of contributions.

The only thing that concerns me slightly is that they're using their own fork of Druid which was pretty much labelled a failed experiment by its primary author (though tbf he still seems to be working on it). On the other hand the UI mostly looks and works really well! I've only noticed a couple of niggles - misalignments, labels not linked to check boxes, ugly context menus on Windows etc. (and that last one is mostly Windows's fault).

Oni was presumably dead in the water as soon as they switched from Neovim to vim, as the initial backers would have been primarily composed of neovim enthusiasts

Does anyone know what happened to Zas editor [0]? I was a huge fan of the concept (a mac-assed app [1] with first class Rust support).

In fact, I was such a fan that I bought it, which has turned out to be a rather foolish move. The people behind it have gone completely silent.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-mac-a...

Yeah seems like a scam. I paid for it, requested an invoice and never got a reply. Never received a single software update either.

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