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uchiha7itachi 2 minutes ago [-]
Just tried it out in linux, its very fast and responsive. It would be awesome if it has LSP support though
jrapdx3 10 hours ago [-]
I'll have to try it.
It occurs to me that in this era of RAM hardware shortage, resource-frugal applications like this one could become more prevalent.
Anyway I guess we'll see if that happens.
Edit: Downloaded, running under Windows.
Impressive. Loads fast, looks pretty polished. Highlighting for many languages included "obscure" ones that I sometimes use.
Mem used: 7.9MB (gvim 12.2MB, emacs 35.5MB, vscodium 291.1MB)
vladcodes 6 hours ago [-]
Thank you. Windows definitely needs a slightly better autoupdate system which is coming in the next major release.
nylonstrung 4 hours ago [-]
At this point I very much question that handwritten assembly can be more performant than what LLVM-based langs can produce at the highest optimization settings. Compilers are very good at optimization
Particularly when the "handwritten" code in question is vibecoded, like this is
hackermanai 3 hours ago [-]
It should be more performant if actually handwritten I guess. But just lowering the implementation like this will make it faster than many other apps seemingly for free, but not having the abstractions from e.g. C or C++ will likely make it unmaintainable long term.
tbrockman 2 hours ago [-]
LLVM is bounded by what its IR can express, and what it can express is constrained by what is portable and what it can prove. There is a reason `ffmpeg`, OpenSSL, OpenBLAS, glibc's string routines, LuaJIT's interpreter, etc. all still leverage hand-written assembly.
As for the editor, even if it isn't necessarily optimal assembly (I have no clue), a reduced feature set and relying on OS APIs instead of frameworks will still probably result in something which feels faster than Electron programs like VSCode.
vladcodes 13 hours ago [-]
The plan is to add as less new features as possible and keep the same performance/launch time/memory and disk footprint as it is currently.
rgbrgb 11 hours ago [-]
can you talk about why you do this in assembly?
vladcodes 5 hours ago [-]
There are some good numbers in comments to respond the question. Think of rhun as of anti-vscode: feature-poor, configuration-lacking, but small and fast :-)
andsoitis 2 hours ago [-]
That’s not an answer to the question.
gespadas 11 hours ago [-]
People... I just tried it... It is SOOO FAST !!!
slohr 10 hours ago [-]
absolutely blazing! and it delivers exactly what I've wanted for quick code reviews of the AI output.
browningstreet 11 hours ago [-]
Assembly plus platform translation, hmmm. I don’t get it but that’s a heck of a thing to do! And yes, I’ll try it.
haolez 9 hours ago [-]
If you use an LLM to write assembly, it is officially your (optimizing?) compiler :)
arecsu 5 hours ago [-]
Honestly, it runs and looks incredible (macOS). Very well done. Would love to have support for pi-agent, as is my go-to for most uses I have. Congratulations!
Imustaskforhelp 3 hours ago [-]
This is amazing. I think that the binary itself is just 980kb, which is such a fresh breath of air. I think that I am fairly impressed by the project!
Some few features that I would love to have for myself is if it can support remote development similar to zed[0] using ssh
and if possibly, LSP support can be added.
I also think that this project can be used as the base support for many things and not just an editor as initial inspiration (sort of as a way to bootstrap a way to create extremely minimalist applications with themes and everything!)
I wish luck to the project and I might even start to daily drive it, there are many ideas that I can think of which I wish to add on top of it (I wish to create a scratch-pad app which can automatically save the files and I wouldn't have to prompt it), I had built it in Odin[1] but I feel like writing it on top of rhun might be easier as well
or a markdown editor similar to a more barebones version of obsidian/notion also come to my mind (If you are interested, please, do create something like this. QTmarkdown is one of the more minimalist things that I use but nearly all of these aren't really as minimalist as I would want them to and I think that rhun can help in it.)
Thanks once again and have a nice day! Man, do I love hackernews for these type of creative projects :-D
- now imagine building entire systems tailored to each OS in just assembly
- imagine the next gen browser built in only assembly with a browser engine made in assembly
- imagine photoshop, illustrator, movie maker built ground up in assembly
- imagine an entire windows 12 operating system made in pure assembly
- the performance profile of each of the above must be absolutely wild
- since i am an an absolute newbie at assembly at this point, a sincere question to the some of the more englightened ones reading this, how and where do you recommend I learn assembly? I understand its different for x86 x64 and ARM? where should I start?
bbor 11 hours ago [-]
…is it fast? Why assembly? Impressive, regardless!
“Super responsive, minimal-by-default” is kinda already met by Sublime Text, but it’s certainly not in assembly lol. And not OSS — thanks for sharing your work with the world :)
vladcodes 5 hours ago [-]
It's very difficult to call Sublime minimal, but for years that was my go to as well. rhun is OSS, no telemetry, free and is lacking dozens of "normal code editor" features compared to Sublime. Which is kinda the point. nano+ with GUI.
hackermanai 4 hours ago [-]
Typing latency is within one frame, so on par with my editor and Sublime Text etc. So, yes, it's fast.
Obv not as polished but still cool.
heckintime 11 hours ago [-]
Middle Earth reference?
vladcodes 6 hours ago [-]
Thanks for noticing :-)
ranger_danger 8 hours ago [-]
Or just Welsh
pigeons 10 hours ago [-]
I thought that was code for Thiel-backed war profiteer lol
tamimio 9 hours ago [-]
Ok wow I am in love! Not just it’s fast, but also it automatically detected the AI session that’s actively working! Might ditch zed now!
vladcodes 6 hours ago [-]
I'm still thinking should I make it bidirectional. Wdyt?
rtvn83 4 hours ago [-]
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Levitating 10 hours ago [-]
Website has all the hallmarks of AI slop.
ianeff 9 hours ago [-]
The comments have all the hallmarks of generated slop.
microflash 6 hours ago [-]
The source code also has all the hallmarks of slop.
vladcodes 5 hours ago [-]
When someone says "hallmark," I can't stop myself from thinking of Xmas
It occurs to me that in this era of RAM hardware shortage, resource-frugal applications like this one could become more prevalent.
Anyway I guess we'll see if that happens.
Edit: Downloaded, running under Windows.
Impressive. Loads fast, looks pretty polished. Highlighting for many languages included "obscure" ones that I sometimes use.
Mem used: 7.9MB (gvim 12.2MB, emacs 35.5MB, vscodium 291.1MB)
Particularly when the "handwritten" code in question is vibecoded, like this is
As for the editor, even if it isn't necessarily optimal assembly (I have no clue), a reduced feature set and relying on OS APIs instead of frameworks will still probably result in something which feels faster than Electron programs like VSCode.
Some few features that I would love to have for myself is if it can support remote development similar to zed[0] using ssh
and if possibly, LSP support can be added.
I also think that this project can be used as the base support for many things and not just an editor as initial inspiration (sort of as a way to bootstrap a way to create extremely minimalist applications with themes and everything!)
I wish luck to the project and I might even start to daily drive it, there are many ideas that I can think of which I wish to add on top of it (I wish to create a scratch-pad app which can automatically save the files and I wouldn't have to prompt it), I had built it in Odin[1] but I feel like writing it on top of rhun might be easier as well
or a markdown editor similar to a more barebones version of obsidian/notion also come to my mind (If you are interested, please, do create something like this. QTmarkdown is one of the more minimalist things that I use but nearly all of these aren't really as minimalist as I would want them to and I think that rhun can help in it.)
Thanks once again and have a nice day! Man, do I love hackernews for these type of creative projects :-D
[0]: https://zed.dev/docs/remote-development
[1]: https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/odinpad
- imagine the next gen browser built in only assembly with a browser engine made in assembly
- imagine photoshop, illustrator, movie maker built ground up in assembly
- imagine an entire windows 12 operating system made in pure assembly
- the performance profile of each of the above must be absolutely wild
- since i am an an absolute newbie at assembly at this point, a sincere question to the some of the more englightened ones reading this, how and where do you recommend I learn assembly? I understand its different for x86 x64 and ARM? where should I start?
“Super responsive, minimal-by-default” is kinda already met by Sublime Text, but it’s certainly not in assembly lol. And not OSS — thanks for sharing your work with the world :)
Obv not as polished but still cool.