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doom-emacs
Discontinued An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
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JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
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brackets
An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. (by brackets-cont)
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textadept
Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
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LSP-pyright
Python support for Sublime's LSP plugin provided through microsoft/pyright. (by sublimelsp)
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4coder
Discontinued The final version of the official 4coder codebase. (See Also: https://github.com/Dion-Systems/4coder-non-source)
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ewig
The eternal text editor — Didactic Ersatz Emacs to show immutable data-structures and the single-atom architecture
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I Built My Own Text Editor
cdin is a lightweight, keyboard-centric text editor with Vim-style modal editing. It started as a fork of lite, but over time it became something more personal. I kept the parts I liked, removed the parts I did not, and reshaped the rest to match the way I actually work.
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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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