Interview 2::Part 1 – Raph Levien

Raph Levien on using Rust to build the Xi editor
Notes
Chris chats with Raph Levien about his background in software development, what attracted him to Rust, and how he’s using Rust to build the Xi Editor, a project which aims to be the fastest text editor out there, with native user interfaces and a Rust text engine.
Links

Past work:

GIMP
GTK
GhostScript
Google Web Fonts

Current projects:

font-rs
pulldown-cmark
Xi Editor

fuzz testing
sanitizers
FreeType
HarfBuzz
ICU
Ropes

Wikipedia summary
original paper

“log n operation”, or O(log n)

Big O notation

Rust:

[Arc]
[RefCell]
[Borrow]
[AsRef]

Rust libraries

[Crossbeam]
[Rayon]

Unix philosophy

The Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, short, clear, modular, and extensible code that can be easily maintained and repurposed by developers other than its creators. The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design.

Sponsors

Aleksey Pirogov
Chris Palmer
Daniel Collin
Derek Morr
Doug Reeves
Hamza Sheikh