NeoVIM is great, and obviously it has been inspiration. I think it remains to be seen whether NeoVIM can deliver an experience that feels like a modern editor. My experience is that projects which attempt to layer a GUI on top of an existing, mature console UI end up leaking bits of the underlying UI. I'm thinking mostly of the various TeX shells here.
A large part of my motivation for starting this project is to explore how suitable Rust is for this kind of work. End users shouldn't have to care, they should judge it strictly by the quality of what it delivers. But I'm hoping this project will be interesting to Rust programmers for a number of reasons.
A large part of my motivation for starting this project is to explore how suitable Rust is for this kind of work. End users shouldn't have to care, they should judge it strictly by the quality of what it delivers. But I'm hoping this project will be interesting to Rust programmers for a number of reasons.