NeoVIM is great, and obviously it has been inspiration. I think it remains to be seen whether NeoVIM can deliver an experience that feels like a modern editor. My experience is that projects which attempt to layer a GUI on top of an existing, mature console UI end up leaking bits of the underlying UI. I&#x27;m thinking mostly of the various TeX shells here.<p>A large part of my motivation for starting this project is to explore how suitable Rust is for this kind of work. End users shouldn&#x27;t have to care, they should judge it strictly by the quality of what it delivers. But I&#x27;m hoping this project will be interesting to Rust programmers for a number of reasons.