Top 5 Lua lite-xl Projects
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Project mention: WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-12
> Web model is objectively better than [...]
Hard disagree. Modern web browsers are incredibly complex beasts that evolved by amalgamating decades of experimentation, poor non-standards, and elaborate counter-measures to fix that mess. I recommend reading <https://browser.engineering>, or even just building Chromium from source, to gain some appreciation. Most applications would benefit from something much simpler. But it's often practical to use as it is, pretty much exactly like terminal emulators.
The main difference being, terminal emulators are still several orders of magnitude less complex than web browsers, but in spite of that still require a lot of complexity to undo the side-effects of having a serial line between the CPU and the character grid. If you like monospaced fonts and character grids, you can probably render that with plain SDL, bitmap fonts with indexed sprite sheets (no Freetype), and in return get non-broken copy & paste, or even a dock icon. You know, the MVP of GUI.
Try <https://lite-xl.com>, it builds its GUI straight on top of SDL.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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ecode
Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance.
I'm working on a multi-platform code editor similar to notepad++ and some new editors like Zed, called ecode, that tries to be a fresh take on code editors using some modern tools and technologies like LSPs. I started working on it after using Geany (which was the closest alternative to notepad++ in Linux) for many years but finding Geany lacking some essential features for my needs. ecode is developed with speed in mind and has a very fast startup time. It might be a good fit for your search.
[1] https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode/
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lite-plugin-crystal
A plugin for the lite & lite-xl editor providing syntax highlighting for the crystal language.
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CodeRabbit
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Index
What are some of the best open-source lite-xl projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | lite-xl | 5,224 |
| 2 | ecode | 991 |
| 3 | lite-xl-plugins | 422 |
| 4 | lite-xl-plugin-manager | 120 |
| 5 | lite-plugin-crystal | 6 |
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