I remember when Levo started this project. At the time, he was getting fed up with the various editors that he was using while he was working on his compiler. He didn't like any non-responsiveness or slow-downs when he was trying to look at a file, whether it was a big dump of something, or XML, or whatever. He asked "How hard could it be to just write a working editor that doesn't freeze up with big files or scrolling?" and I joked that it shouldn't take more than 3 days to build. That must have been close to a year ago.
The software industry is getting harder and harder to do a start-up in, or even a self-sustaining open source project in, especially in the dev tools space. Levo's been trying to figure out how such a thing might be possible: Is there a way to build things like this, full time, and still be able to pay the rent?
This might just be his experiment to find out ...