Feature: IDE - Replace BasicTextField with a brand new component #23
Description
Context
The Editor we have for displaying code, editing code, syntax highlighting suffers from a really big problem which is that we are using BasicTextField.
The problem with a BasicTextField is that on every edit, a recompose is triggered which greatly degrades the performance of editing. Additionally when loading large files (e.g. 2000+ lines), the UI will hang for ages because BasicTextField and well... any Compose/Swing component isn't suited for such tasks.
What we need is to create a brand new custom component that can be a replacement for BasicTextField.
The component needs to cover:
- Multi line selection
- Virtualization
- Syntax highlighting
- Support 1000s of lines of code
- Line numbers
As a way of giving back to the community, making the new component an independent open source unit would be great.