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Raph Levien on using Rust to build the Xi editor
NotesChris chats with Raph Levien about his background in software development, what attracted him to Rust, and how he’s using Rust to build the Xi Editor, a project which aims to be the fastest text editor out there, with native user interfaces and a Rust text engine.
Links- Past work:
- Current projects:
- fuzz testing
- sanitizers
- FreeType
- HarfBuzz
- ICU
- Ropes
- “log n operation”, or O(log n)
- Rust:
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Arc] - [
RefCell] - [
Borrow] - [
AsRef]
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- Rust libraries
- [Crossbeam]
- [Rayon]
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- Ralph Giles (“rillian”)
- Ralph “FriarTech” Loizzo
- Raph Levien
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