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Show Notes
Raph Levien on using Rust to build the Xi editor
Notes
Chris 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:
- [
Arc] - [
RefCell] - [
Borrow] - [
AsRef]
- [
- Rust libraries
- [Crossbeam]
- [Rayon]
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The Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, short, clear, modular, and extensible code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators. The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design.
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- Leif Arne Storset
- Luca Schmid
- Micael Bergeron
- Pascal Hertleif
- Ralph Giles (“rillian”)
- Ralph “FriarTech” Loizzo
- Raph Levien
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- Ryan Ollos
- Vesa Kaihlavirta
- William Roe
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