rust-smallvec VS remacs

You might want to check out how popular ecosystem crates do some of these things. Particularly relevant to you are probably crates providing collections, such as smallvec, hashbrown, or indexmap.

# Uses the given git repo when used locally, and uses # version 1.0 from crates.io when published. smallvec = { git = "https://github.com/servo/rust-smallvec", version = "1.0" }

smallvec

> the chances for triggering a buffer underflow / overflow exploit are zero

Doesn't the mere existence of unsafe make this untrue? From a quick google I can see at least one[1] so the chances are definitely a lot higher than zero

[1] https://github.com/servo/rust-smallvec/issues/252

you might want to check remacs, a rewrite of emacs in Rust.

Emacs. There's Remacs… well, there was Remacs. It seems the project has fizzled out.

Remacs

Well...

here are a few

[1] https://github.com/remacs/remacs

Yeah most likely they won't mature at all. Many of the emacs-ng folks were doing an incremental Rust rewrite called Remacs before abandoning that. It's great to see these people having fun, but I wouldn't bet on them to be around in the long term.

There are alternative Emacs-like editors implemented in better languages like Common Lisp like Climacs which seem to be no longer maintained, there have been attempts at rewriting Emacs in Guile Scheme like Guile Emacs which have fizzled out, there are more recent attempts at implementing Emacs in Rust which isn't even a Lisp. I am really hoping Guile Emacs or Climacs see a resurrection, that or some other Lisp-based Emacs clone comes along that manages to supplant GNU Emacs. If more people would put efforts into projects like these, Emacs as a platform would be so much better than something like Electron.