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a text editor written in Rust

Shown by gchp on Dec 11, 2014. Click the card to turn it over.

221points

45comments

#80of 2,272 in 2014

Top 4%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

7 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.

Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against

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Good write-up of how the maker learned editor internals
From 2 comments
- This is an absolutely awesome answer, and in the best tradition of old school hackers. This is why open source rules. If you have some time - would you mind writing a high level…
  Fede_V on HN
- Thats a lot for the excellent answer, Greg! Really appreciate it :)
  krat0sprakhar on HN
Interest in Rust as a language
From 1 comment
- I'm so excited to see more and more projects in Rust, which will bring more speed and security in our digital lives. Thank you very much, Greg!
  kolev on HN

Unclear what advantage Iota has over Vim
From 1 comment
- You say on the readme: "Iota was born out of my frustrations with existing text editors. Over the years I've tried combinations of simple text editors, IDEs and everything in…
  bbcbasic on HN

Offer a higher-level write-up of editor architecture
From 1 comment
- This is an absolutely awesome answer, and in the best tradition of old school hackers. This is why open source rules. If you have some time - would you mind writing a high level…
  Fede_V on HN

Which resources were used to learn how editors work
From 1 comment
- Thanks for sharing Greg! I've been waiting for Rust to reach 1.0 so that I can dive-in and work on side projects. Text editors to me (a web programmer) look too intimidating to…
  krat0sprakhar on HN
Why use termbox instead of ncurses or terminfo
From 1 comment
- What's the advantage of using the limited termbox interface over (n)curses, or just using the low-level terminfo library directly?
  thristian on HN

Vigo
From 1 comment
- I actually contributed quite a bit to a fork of godit called vigo [0]. It gave me lots of insight into how text editors work. When I went to start writing Iota, I found that…
  gchp on HN
godit
From 1 comment
- This[1] emacs inspired editor, written in Go, also uses termbox (pure go port: https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go) - great little library. I'm rewriting a python command line…
  swah on HN
Vim
From 1 comment
- You say on the readme: "Iota was born out of my frustrations with existing text editors. Over the years I've tried combinations of simple text editors, IDEs and everything in…
  bbcbasic on HN
Neovim
From 1 comment
- Great work, thank you. I was awaiting for something like this for a while. Thanks for sharing. As a side note: In the long term what I would really love to see - is Rust GUI for…
  leonardinius on HN