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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoZed editor is a great example of this. There's so many moving parts missing here that I could write a book just listing those one by one ;-) This is objectively marketing propaganda because absolute timing values without context and environment do not have any other meaning than giving preferred impression.
Examples of reasonable ways to analyze performance can be found from e.g. https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoIt is really only web engine that has a realistic chance for feature par with Gecko and WebKit, which is purely open source, so it is in my opinion somewhat exciting.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoI guess I’ve activated to post random stories about #vim lately ;-) There’s so much hate for it, especially from some members #neovim community, so I just want to show that there is also other side of the story. In other words, there are people who pick “just” Vim purely based on technical advantages.
It is a bit over year since Bram Moolenaar died so I guess this is also good timing in that sense (RIP) ;-) Remembering that by migrating my vim files to vim9script 🍾
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoOn #macOS, I’ve found that best way for me to manage #vim installation specifically is to just download the dmg and install pkg given that it auto-updates and contains all the command-line versions (instead of using homebrew or macports):
$ ls -1 /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin
gview
gvim
gvimdiff
gvimtutor
mview
mvim
mvimdiff
mvimtutor
view
vim
vimdiff
vimtutor
xxd
Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoNot sure if I dare to say this but what a load of nonsense.
Just to name an example, the standard for RISC-V with MMU is unfinished and ambiguous to the point that how a SiFive CPU's do stuff is more of a guideline than the specs. The commercial weight if AFAIK more in the compute core area where you just "fork" the hardware description and make it your own.
Not slandering RISC-V per se, I actually like many thing in that ISA, just saying that it is not *even* comparative to x86 and ARM at this point of time. E.g. OpenMIPS would have been (if there had been any analysis of other ISA's than x86).
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/why-x86-needs-to-die/
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoOther than I don't really care what the browser is as long as it is fairly modern (e.g. WebKit based). Safari and GNOME Web are reasonable, and I'd think that as they are not the selling product, they also minimize the harm, as it is not intended to make profit in any significant figures.
That said, not sure if I would trust Edge on Windows ;-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoI mean why be the king of lua dependency hell, when you could have just as well installed vscode and zed, and call it a day. It being TUI interface does not help that much anymore of the editor being ubiquitous at that point.
For me people who pick vscode feel more like common sense people than 90% of neovim users. I get the pragmatic reasoning for that even tho I use an archaic editor.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkkoInteractive external commands is also one reason that made me return back to regular #vim, in addition to working remotes out of the box and the fact that I use only a few plugins, which carry out somewhat trivial tasks where e.g. performance is not a factor.
Interactive external commands is a useful feature from time to time because it allows to leverage privileges for an external command.
For example, this will result an error in #neovim instead of a password prompt: :r !sudo ls.
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