xi-editor VS Servo

Have a look at what Lapce uses. The editor is coming along nicely, and iirc, they use the Xi editor as a plug-in.

Raph Levien posted a retrospective about using CRDT’s for collaborative editing in xi-editor here [1]. His conclusion is

“I come to the conclusion that the CRDT is not pulling its (considerable) weight. When I think about a future evolution of xi-editor, I see a much brighter future with a simpler, largely synchronous model, that still of course has enough revision tracking to get good results with asynchronous peers like the language server.”

[1]https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187#issuecomm...

Maybe architect kernel as a microservice? There was some text editor developed as a microservice; I don't see why it couldn't work for a FX application or game engine.

A while ago there was a post about Zas Editor, an editor for mac that used parts of Xi as the backend. Since then, the website has been taken down and it's presumably abandoned. There was some apprehension about its licensing but it was cool.

I thought that after the failure of the https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor project (which Lapce seems to take inspiration from) people would stop trying it, but looks like it's doing the opposite.

Why not collaborate with developers of existing code editors such as Xi Editor (https://xi-editor.io) or Lapce (https://lapce.dev) instead of making yet another one?

As for lightweight alternatives to Atom, there is also Lite-XL (https://lite-xl.com).

My initial thoughts are using something like the xi-editor or parts from it for text manipulation, some rust GUI framework for rendering, like egui or iced, for more language contextual actions like autocomplete I think I'd have to look into the LSP.

Oh I didn't realize that it might have been a serious question, I'm too unfamiliar with the domain to not make stupid misinterpretations it seems, really sorry about that. Anyway no, that's a good suggestion, I think starting there makes the most sense but I'm having some decision-anxiety about where to start. I think xi-editor is likely to be the best place to start constructing an editor without making the project impossible to finish

Given it's in Rust, I wonder if something like that could be based on top of Servo instead [1].

[1] https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/24162

https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors?from=2021...

Most of the commits are updates to dependencies and the like.

So basically, none.

It's busier than I would've thought.

https://github.com/servo/servo/pulse/monthly

It’s still around as a “independent, modular, embeddable web engine” (servo.org) so it may have some use as an electron alternative. I am not sure though.

Active-ish. The last two weeks has mostly build system, test, and bot updates. The last substantive change goes back to Oct 9th from a quick scan. The previous substantive change is May 9th.

Active. Their most recent commit was 18 hours ago https://github.com/servo/servo

No benchmarks yet. But I would just take the words from Servo https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Research

Perhaps it feels like cheating depending on how much you wanted to implement yourself. But you'd still need to parse HTML+CSS and implement all the layout stuff. Though of course there's some libraries for that too. I mean, Servo is an entire (experimental?) engine written in Rust.