Building a 9MB Code Editor in Rust and Tauri: An Open-Source Alternative to Heavy IDEs

9.6MB is impressive, Tauri skipping the bundled Chromium is the right tradeoff for a daily-driver editor. curious how the React side handles syntax highlighting on big files, are you tokenizing and rendering the whole file or virtualizing so only visible lines get diffed, since that's usually where "lightweight editor" claims fall apart once someone opens a 5k line file and the tab-switching stops feeling instant