Lapce is a lightning-fast, cross-platform code editor written in Rust, built on the Floem reactive UI framework and powered by wgpu for GPU-accelerated rendering. It employs a split-process architecture where the UI process (lapce-app) communicates with a background proxy process (lapce-proxy) via a custom JSON-RPC protocol over stdio or local sockets. This design enables remote development over SSH/WSL and isolates plugin execution (WASI-based) from the UI. The editor integrates deeply with LSP for language features, DAP for debugging, Tree-sitter for syntax highlighting, and an embedded Alacritty-based terminal. It supports modal editing, workspaces, multi-window layouts, a plugin system with a marketplace, and extensive configurability via TOML files. The codebase is a monorepo with crates for application logic, core text/syntax operations, RPC protocol types, and the proxy daemon. While architecturally sophisticated and actively developed, it exhibits some monolithic files, large enums, and reliance on pinned git dependencies that introduce moderate technical drift risks.