Will Fleet be open source?
We are considering open sourcing parts of the product or the technology behind it. Stay tuned for details in the coming months.
open core non-commercial use… I would only use it if I had to… GNU Emacs still is the best.
Fleet is mainly written in Kotlin, which means it runs on the JVM. The UI framework is a home-grown solution using Skia (via Skiko). For those of you wondering why we didn’t use Compose Multiplatform: we started working on Fleet when Compose Multiplatform wasn’t available yet.
Furthermore, Fleet uses Rust for the Fleet System Agent, which is a process that runs on the target machine. It is used to build the project, run code, execute terminal commands, and perform other actions in the target environment on behalf of Fleet.
They are too invested on the JVM already… Webasembly ftw
indeed open core business model similar to idea
Sure. that is the most logical thing for jetbrains to do. I’m just critical of using JVM for something like an editor because startup time, memory consumption, … and I would be glad to see webassembly taking some JVM market as well.
I will have to test it to see for myself.
GNU Emacs is the best current editor in terms of freedom, extensibility, ecosystem, frontends for both tui and gui, but it loses in performance, safety, modernity, graphical interface (all this mostly due to “too invested” in legacy, Elisp, no proper requirements engineering and UX/UI).
I’ve been hopeful for Helix editor and their planned webassemly plugins system https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/122. Lapce has wasi in it already https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/598.