There are a lot of ideas that I run across in my daily life that I find interesting. This is a place for me to write them down and later share them with the world. Zed Text Editor https://zed.dev/ This was an episode of the source graph podcast talking with the author of tree-sitter, a library for incrementally parsing code. He and two others are now working on a text editor in Rust called Zed....
I've tried many different editors in my time as a programmer. At first it was Notepad++, while I was still using Windows. Eventually I moved to linux, and used GEdit and Nano. Atom, an electron based editor with plugins was next. All the plugins you could install were awesome. However, I quickly began to chafe at the idea of using electron. It was slow and memory-intensive. Why did a text editor need an entire web browser to run?...