[Cyphase]

I think one of the main reasons it exists is that it's written in Rust. One clue is that the TLD is .rs, plus there's been a lot of "a <type-of-program> written in Rust" lately. Which is fine; it's just an observation. I myself am going to be getting into Rust soon, hopefully.

[wasted_intel]

Yes, this is definitely one reason. At the time, I was interested in working on Vim, but it's hard to make changes to a C codebase and be confident you won't introduce segfaults or subtle memory safety issues.

Rust's "hack without fear" mantra definitely applied here. :)

[monotypical]

being written in rust might make it more appealing to develop, but it doesn't give any benefit to the user and I can't see it being a reason for someone to use this over vim

[DC-3]

Rust programs tend to be more stable, more efficient, and more highly parallelized than equivalents written in other languages by developers of the same quality.

[__Joker]

Again, I am not sure when is the last time vim crashed on my *nix set up. Not trying to sound unreasonable but in this argument of VIM/amp it might not be relevant.

[gdfasfklshg4]

It depends upon plugins. My Vim is quite prone to crashing but I'm fairly sure it is one of my plugins.

[petepete]

Yeah, more than likely. I'm down to just a handful of plugins and don't recall it crashing in the last couple of years, and I use it a lot.

[z3phyr]

False advertisement is false. Please refrain from such statements as it actually hurts the language more.

[gpm]

I think that that statement is true, the "tend to" and "same quality" are very important qualifiers though.

[tendencydriven]

I think it's a lot easier for someone to learn a new language, or learn the benefits of a new language, by recreating something which already exists.

[ranza]

I usually go for irc bots when trying to learn a new language. I already know the api and the thought process which makes it easier.

[danellis]

> there's been a lot of "a <type-of-program> written in Rust" lately

It's the new Go.