Hi,
I Just started working on a Emacs-inspired text editor in Rust.
Being insipred by Emacs, the most important part Is the possibiliy to implement new components.
My ideas were:
- Rust-based scripting language, like Rhai
- RustPython (slower, but more compatible and lots of people know Python)
- PyO3 (Bigger executable and not that fast)
- Wasm/Wasi (Cross-platform, but I don't know if the compatibility with Rust's hosted functions and structs is good)
- Other binded language, like V8, Lua or SpiderMonkey
- Compiled plugins, like .so or .DLL (Fast, but not compatible; there should be Rust plugin frameworks for implementing this, but I don't remember the name)
The elements to analyze are: speednees (consider it's a text editor, so...), easy-to-develop and Cross-platform (if possible, not that important), but the possibility to execute functions in the host Rust program is EXTREMELY important.
Thoughts?
Thanks in Advance.
I'd say something like LUA or python so people could easily write their own plug-ins. If speed really is a concern then I'd go with wasm.