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1 year ago For one thing, Ropey isn't an editor. It's just a rope implementation. A better comparison is Ropey to xi-rope:
- Ropey is actively maintained, whereas xi-rope (along with Xi editor) is discontinued.
- Ropey is actively used in at least one major project, Helix, which means that it continues to get more and more battle-tested over time.
- Ropey (last time I checked) is over an order of magnitude faster than xi-rope, due to a regression in xi-rope that I think(?) was never fixed.
- Ropey has only two dependencies, both of which are very small, and one of which was actually originally part of Ropey and was split off. Whereas xi-rope has several dependencies, some of which are not especially small.
- Ropey has a strong emphasis on good documentation and being a crate for other projects to use. Whereas xi-rope is sparse on documentation and as far as I can tell was first-and-foremost a component of the Xi editor project.
- Feature wise, both crates are fairly comparable.
On the other hand, if you disregard dependencies (e.g. maybe you would be pulling in those dependencies anyway), xi-rope is a leaner crate. And in many respects xi-rope has a cleaner, more elegant design than Ropey, with a smaller API.
As the author of Ropey, of course, I am biased in my comparison here! So please take it with a grain of salt.
How would ropey compare to the Xi editor ?