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

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[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Comptime replaces macros/reflection.

It's basically Zig code that runs at compile time in your code...

No other "weird" language to learn; it's zig all the way. What you would have written in macro is written in zig comptime.

Even the build system is zig...

Same for generics, it's comptime...

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