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dmitrygr • today at 7:55 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Editors don’t even open those files.

vi opens multi-GB files just fine.

And for multi-TB files, "less -n" works.

You need to broaden your horizons about editors. Not all of then are javascript-based slopfests


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FabCH • today at 8:16 AM

The crash will happen in TreeSitter which is a widely used AST library that all modern editors, including neovim, depend on for syntax highlighting and which is also used by many LSPs.

Additionally, here's an appropriate XKCD: https://xkcd.com/378/

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