Probably because it says in Rust. In Rust we trust.

It doesn't work but it's memory safe in being non-functional

It boggles the mind. Good for the team building this, lots of respect entering this crowded and race to the bottom pricing product. But I don’t get how this differs from vs code or why someone would be excited about it. I get the feeling people like trying new editors so they throw stars around for every ide project they come across.

None of the features advertised beat neovim nor does it have the crazy plugin ecosystem.

People like their editor to be fast, work on more platforms, be open source, not being tied to Microsoft, etc.

Plenty of reasons why someone would choose Lapce over VS Code.

Be a team of 3-4 people working in their spare time to maintain cross-platform native GUI FOSS project that people seem to like

You can buy stars