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		allisdust on Oct 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust For an editor? Makes a lot of difference. The day intellij ide is rewriten in non gc/dynamic language, there will be a noticeable improvement in performance and number of times the ide has to be restarted because it ate all the memory.

nkozyra on Oct 10, 2022 [–]

If IntelliJ stuff were not GUIs and instead terminal apps I suspect that would be a pretty big performance boost, too.

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