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- Text editor written in C and Lua
- Lite XL – Fast, Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing Experience
- Textadept
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VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
VS Code feels like nothing but bloat. Sublime Text is still my go-to, as I'm not very well-versed in Neovim yet. I'm also really digging the new C/Lua-based Lite XL - https://lite-xl.com. One of my New Year's resolutions is to learn Neovim properly.
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You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed
Wondering if you've tried rxi/lite or the community fork, Lite-XL [1] and how you've found the font rendering to be there?
[1] https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
- Lite XL v2.1.8 released (SDL 3, LTO)
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WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
> 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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A 5-day journey with Lite-XL
With that in mind, I tried to search for a good substitute for my precious Vim and amid the search activity I found Lite-XL(https://lite-xl.com). Though I'm back to Vim, the 5-day journey with the Lua-based coding editor was impressive, so I'd like to leave a record to remember the fun during the journey.
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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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React for Beginners: Your First Steps with the Popular JavaScript Library.
1. A text editor: This is where you'll write your code. There are many options to choose from, such as Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, or lite-xl.
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franko/lite-xl is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of lite-xl is Lua.
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