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by wholesomepotato 964 days ago
Arguably Xi was a design-bloat. I mean - it was a research project. Nothing wrong with it, but the community got super-excited about it, ignoring ... well, the pragmatic reality. Any time it was mentioned it talked about efficiently editing > 1GB files. Super over-flexible plugin system design.

For a lean and pragmatic text editor look at Helix, Kakoune, even NeoVim or Emacs.