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lite
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TextAdept
Another small, minimalist Lua-based text editor is Lite[1], and it's much less "light" cousin Lite-XL[2]
1: https://github.com/rxi/lite
2: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
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A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
Playing with browser developer tools and always seeing obfuscated JavaScript makes me sad. I'm not a web developer, but I suspect the security gained is low enough to fall within the author's "unnecessary constraints."
On the other hand, there are projects like https://github.com/rxi/lite
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
Beyond the rendering which as noted is nothing that hasn't been done before (in general) the inherent OT/multi user + tree sitter functionality is something that entices me.
I'm surprised nobody pointed out lite/litexl here either it's rendering of ui is very similar (although fonts are via a texture; like a game would) and doesn't focus overly on the GPU but optimises those paths like games circa directx9/opengl 1.3
https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/renderer.h
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Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
> is using pure software rendering (on top of SDL) in a rather naïve fashion
https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/rencache.c#L4
I think you'll find that they found the naive approach was sufficiently poor, performance wise, that additional optimizations had to be applied on-top.
> But for quick hacking / porting old demos / writing emulators and also text based UI it can be fast enough.
/shrug
If you want to use it, use it. It's 'good enough'...
> if you vastly lower your expectations
- Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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Looking for an IDE with the following characteristics
How about lite https://github.com/rxi/lite
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Now that Atom has been discontinued - where to next?
You have options: - Sublime Text - VsCodium - Lite - https://github.com/rxi/lite
- 4coder editor is now fully open source
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Lapce
I like the single lapce.exe and loads reasonably fast.
But this is in a pre pre-alpha stage, so many bugs it's far too early for public feedback. It loads reasonably fast except chrome stats in top left then jerks towards the center. The start page says to bring up the command palette which I was unable to navigate via keyboard.
The open file dialog takes an eternity to load the first time, the path is in a text box that's not editable. Focusing a text file gives an Insert cursor which is in text mode, there's a noticable slow delay before writing the first character, text selection is non existent so lacks basic text editing features.
There is a built-in terminal however there's only a single tab.
The only thing that gives it potential is that the folder/file browsing is super quick even with a node_modules folder so it might be built on efficient rendering that can be improved.
Even for such a basic editor it's 38mb download. For a far smaller + more complete editor checkout Lite:
https://github.com/rxi/lite
textadept
- TextAdept
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Harlequin.sh DuckDB IDE for your terminal
- Textadept: https://github.com/orbitalquark/textadept
Or "Geany IDE" on desktop environment (while waiting for lapce.dev to get better), I tend to stay away as much as possible from VS Codium, but everyone else seems to love it and already forgot about Atom, few seems to realise how Microsoft really is.
Maybe the plot twist is that you have to accept in your heart that "writing text on anything, is the real IDE", and transcend to writing on nano!
- Micro – A Modern Alternative to Nano
- Textadept
- Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license
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Text adept help
For support try here
- Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
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Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
Looks interesting. Especially in terms of its customisability, this reminds me a bit of Textadept, another Lua-based editor: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
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Sunsetting Atom Text Editor
Textadept has both TUI and GUI, and is Free Software: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
The way it works is that its creator made a TUI implementation if the GUI library he used for the graphical version, so you have the same menus etc.
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[Find package] Package which runs Sublime inside a terminal
Textadept -https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/ - does this out of the box but I couldn't get on with it.
What are some alternatives?
lite-xl - A lightweight text editor written in Lua
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
LSP-pyright - Python support for Sublime's LSP plugin provided through microsoft/pyright.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
vis - A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
Apache NetBeans - Apache NetBeans
Notepad3 - Notepad like text editor based on the Scintilla source code. Notepad3 based on code from Notepad2 and MiniPath on code from metapath. Download Notepad3:
theia - Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE
oni2 - Native, lightweight modal code editor