Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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6 points

Quoting the guy:

“that rewriting those in Rust will take an eternity, so not sure what is actionable here, hence closing.”

That’s Rust shining from all its glories here gentlemen…

The best language, if there is nothing changing.

That’s a thing to make a web server or a library that displays Fibonacci, that’s something else when there are humans with changing scopes…

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Its not Rusts fault, the devs are simply lazy and making insecure products, as they dont want to rewrite everything.

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That’s what I am saying.

To quote you: “they don’t want to rewrite everything” …

Writing Rust often implies major refactoring and it takes so much time to write that your requests go: “pewf” closed due to the amount of effort it takes.

Anyway, been there, done that! Zig is probably the real future; it’s a joy to write, it compiles fast, clear to read, and safe.

It has shared libraries and a proper integration with existing C/CPP code base.

You should try it, that’s an amazing language with a real potential to replace the legacy.

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I dunno man… I’m not sure I’m so keen on a language that prides itself on not having macros

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4 points

They were exaggerating to avoid work. Look at the PR diff to determine whether your anti-Rust bias is true.

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There are no patch, the issue has been closed as in rejected.

There are a few tasks that are open that are loosely related, but let’s not mix things up.

Moreover, I will take the words of the maintainers over a random potato on a forum.

No offense…

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The issue was closed, but a draft PR was linked… potato:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14034

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I use rust only if we need performance, for small services. The industry does the same. People use node for backend but e.g. redis is in rust. It’s a good tool if you use it for the right stuff.

EDIT: redis is not in rust, but e.g. aws writes many services in rust

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Wtf are you talking about? Redis is in C…

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yeah I’m a fucking idiot because I thought wrongly the redis’ language…

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