Lapce is written in pure Rust, with UI in Druid. It's using Xi-Editor's Rope Science for text editing, and using Wgpu for rendering. More information on the website.

• Modal Editing (Vim like) support as first class citizen (can be turned off as well)
• Built in LSP support
• Built in remote development support (inspired by VSCode Remote Development)
• Plugin can be written in programming languages that can compile to WASI (C, Rust, AssemblyScript)
• Built in terminal

A guideline about contributing to Lapce can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md.

1. Install rustup.rs.

sudo apt-get install cmake pkg-config libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxkbcommon-dev python3

cargo build --release

The executable will be available at target/release/lapce

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