Comment by stianhoiland

Thanks for undertaking this project, as well as making WT such an awesome app!

I already expressed my appreciation on the repo, but was promptly shushed by your colleague for Incitement Of A Language War, hehe.

I'm impressed by the architecture and implementation choices, especially the gap buffer and cursor movement. It seems we've independently arrived at the same kinds of conclusions on how to min-max a text editor: minimal concepts with maximal functionality.

Others have asked about Zig. I would love to hear more about the work you did in C. Did you start in C? What are some reasons why you didn't continue with C? If you had continued in C, with hindsight, what would have been most annoying? What was clearly better in C? Again, with hindsight, what would have been the best parts of following through with C? I see that you are C-cultured as well (Chris Wellons' blog) and some of the upsides of Zig that you mention I would have guessed you could have elegantly solved in C using Chris' insights. I'm very curious how with such expert advice available you still sought elsewhere and preferred it. Looking forward to hear about the C-side of the story.

Good luck with the project, and see you on the repo :)