lapce VS winit

Apparently, currently based on width: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/commit/87e0fc06f1862d9124d3fe...

Portable version loaded instantly for me on Windows 10. Remote SSH functionality doesn't work at all unfortunately[1]. Would be nice to try out but I don't do any local dev.

1: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2985

There are plenty of issues like this in Lapce (no support beyond qwerty layout for instance). Just go for Zed instead.

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/945#issuecomment-12853...

They have a download page on their website that will give you a binary. Alternately, you can install it from Flathub[0] or see if they have packages for your distro[1].

[0]: https://flathub.org/apps/dev.lapce.lapce

[1]: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/blob/master/docs/installing-w...

They rewrote the UI recently in their own toolkit, Floem [^1], and that broke all scaling under X11 for me (now the UI and fonts are rendered so large that it's unusable). It works fine in Wayland though...

Here's some issues that were filed for this same problem:

  - https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/2732

The list of available Linux packages seems to be here:

https://github.com/lapce/lapce/blob/master/docs/installing-w...

As a Neovim afficionado - I think you lose some credibility recommending it as an alternative to VSCode and Sublime. They're different beasts. I imagine a lot of people would be immediately turned off if they were expecting a VSCode/Sublime-like editing experience.

I'd put Lapce in that spot: https://lapce.dev/

Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.

I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp: https://warp.dev/

Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).

Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.

[1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

Have you seen the official example?

That's a bit shortsighted given that there is an active discussion about reducing the interior mutability.

There are a number of up-and-coming Rust-based frameworks in this niche:

- https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (probably the most usable today)

- https://github.com/vizia/vizia

- https://github.com/marc2332/freya

- https://github.com/linebender/xilem (currently very incomplete but exciting because it's from a team with a strong track record)

What is also exciting to me is that the Rust GUI ecosystem is in many cases building itself up with modular libraries. So while we have umpteen competing frameworks they are to a large degree all building and collaborating on the same foundations. For example, we have:

- https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit (cross-platform window creation)

- https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu (abstraction on top of vulkan/metal/dx12)

- https://github.com/linebender/vello (a canvas like imperative drawing API on top of wgpu)

- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (UI layout algorithms)

- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing)

- https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs)

In many cases there a see https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-subsection-gui for a more complete list of frameworks and foundational libraries)

Name: Francesca! Location: Portland, OR (UTC-7) Looking for: Remote only, full-time or contract. Contact: [email protected] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-lovebloom/ GitHub: https://github.com/francesca64 Experience: 4+ years of professional Rust experience; former lead maintainer of winit and creator of cargo-mobile.

Window manager: https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit

I'm using winit and softbuffer for my CurrentProject™.