Comment by kibwen 3 days ago
The authors of Xi are currently working on Xilem, an experimental reactive UI framework for Rust: https://github.com/linebender/xilem
In the announcement post, they mention that work on Xi is considered "on hold" rather than strictly discontinued: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/05/07/ui-architect...
You have no idea.
I think we're at five or six levels of yaks by now.
(xi -> xilem -> masonry -> vello -> peniko -> color)
It's a lot of fun to follow, especially as its so different than my developmental expertise.
You can see the current projects (13 active) on https://linebender.org , and several members post interesting checkins in https://xi.zulipchat.com/
> first I must solve rendering 2D graphics purely on the GPU
To be fair, the original author of Xi ('raphlinus) has been working on GPU-side 2D rendering much longer than on Xi.
Yes, the xi repo is discontinued. They recommend the lapce editor as the spiritual successor:
I'd also recommend Helix [0] (which also uses the rope data structure [1]), that's a more widely used editor also written in Rust.
[0] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix
[1] https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/docs/archi...
This looks pretty cool - except... modes like in vi are a no-go area; has anyone tried to modify the GUI (key bindings) to make it similar to Emacs or Notepad?
The extra keypress for switching between "i" (inserting text) "ESC" (moving cursor) "i"... would drive me insane (just not used to it, but used to very fast, friction-free typing/editing).
helix is a really really good text editor / terminal IDE
I'm seriously impressed by the level of quality out of the box
Thanks for posting. I discovered floem https://github.com/lapce/floem I’ve been looking for something like it
Legendary-tier yak shaving.
"I want to build an editor, but first I must solve rendering 2D graphics purely on the GPU, invent a parallelizable path solver, and code a human perception-based color value manipulation library."