lite

A lightweight text editor written in Lua (by rxi)

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  • TextAdept
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    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

  • A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
    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

  • Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2023
    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

  • Minimal Cross-Platform Graphics
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2023
    > 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
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 11 Oct 2022
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2022
  • Looking for an IDE with the following characteristics
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 6 Jul 2022
    How about lite https://github.com/rxi/lite
  • Now that Atom has been discontinued - where to next?
    9 projects | /r/linux | 13 Jun 2022
    You have options: - Sublime Text - VsCodium - Lite - https://github.com/rxi/lite
  • 4coder editor is now fully open source
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2022
  • Lapce
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022
    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

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rxi/lite is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of lite is Lua.


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