It is basically one authors hobby project, a couple of others have made the odd commit (not to downplay the value of making open source contributions) but there are 7 contributors on this repo, ranging from 1-711 commits… only one of those has made more than 2 commits. It is fairly early stages of an ambitious project, for me it isn’t usable on a day to day basis and it probably isn’t what I’m looking for anyway, it is a however really impressive effort this person has put in and does have a lot of cool ideas. I’m super jealous of people who have the focus of mind to really take on these kinds of hobby projects.

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Downloaded it but not keen on why it wants to connect to the internet on startup (the Lapce site and gh) and doesn’t seem to have an option to switch it off : /

I opened it on Mac. It does feel very snappy, basically a VS Code in Rust, but I don’t think it’s ready yet for actual use. For example I couldn’t see how to load language servers or turn on syntax highlighting and the only plugin I saw was for Rust. Not saying those things aren’t there, and maybe they’d be more obvious if you opened a Rust project (I tried with a fairly typical Phoenix project). If the developer keeps with it maybe it could be excellent. The site he has up might be a bit inspirational vs descriptive of actual capabilities at this point?