---
title: "lapce/lapce: Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/lapce-lapce-lightning-fast-and-powerful-code-editor-written-in-rust-ssjcmscsh
source_url: https://github.com/lapce/lapce
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2021-12-14T15:10:57.060Z
updated: 2026-03-15T02:30:29.303Z
tags: ["general-programming", "rust", "science"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 38
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# lapce/lapce: Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 38 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

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. The code editor is lightning-fast and powerful, written in Rust. It has a built-in code editor that can edit any text in any language.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.com/lapce/lapce>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@yannkost** · 0 upvotes

> Nice that some code editors focusing on speed show up

**@miketeddyomondi** · 0 upvotes

> Nice but not so nice...It doesn't even run after installation....so a _3/10_ for me!!!

**@adamalrahman** · 0 upvotes

> It has a clean and good interface but after installing, it was not working well though.

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> really cool interface, works really smoothly, most plugins are available, and ssh is supported out of the box

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