Debate intensifies over misleading 'rebuilt in Rust' framing
4 Nov 1 5:49 AM · 10d ago · 3 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
A commenter argues the 'rebuilt in Rust' claim is misleading: code processing uses standalone LSP processes, the frontend is WebView with TypeScript, and only the Tauri glue code is Rust. They also express skepticism about memory usage claims.
“Calling it "OpenIDEA" is a bit misleading...saying that it was rebuilt in Rust is at least as much misleading: the code processing is still standalone LSP processes, frontend is WebView with typescript, only Tauri glue code is Rust.”
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Correction: Rust is more than just Tauri glue code (https://github.com/l0ng-ai/openidea/issues/568#issuecomment-...). But considering that in an IDE the two performance critical parts are code processing (LSP) and frontend, I wonder how much benefit can you really get by making everything except of them in Rust.Overall I actually agree that VSCode…
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Calling it "OpenIDEA" is a bit misleading. IntellijIDEA is free and open source (Apache 2.0) since 2009. Paid subscription basically gives you extra plugins. And as others pointed out, saying that it was rebuilt in Rust is at least as much misleading: the code processing is still standalone LSP processes, frontend is WebView with typescript, only…
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10 years ago and earlier it was cool IDE.What are they doing now? crisis of ideas and just hyping? pity.
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This is fantastic. The Jetbrains Java fetish has always crippled these otherwise good tools.
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The comparisons of speed and memory usage only make sense if there's feature parity.
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