Lite-xl Alternatives

lite-xl reviews and mentions

• WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2025

  > 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.

• A 5-day journey with Lite-XL
  1 project | dev.to | 24 Jul 2024

  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.

• 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

• React for Beginners: Your First Steps with the Popular JavaScript Library.
  6 projects | dev.to | 2 Apr 2023

  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.

• any good NATIVE (non electron) code editors?
  4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 3 Mar 2023

  lite-xl. VERY extensible, fast, all around great editor. https://lite-xl.com/

• Use GNU Emacs
  16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2023

  There are many text editors extensible in Lua or in Python. They generally don't allow messing with the innards as much (Firefox proved that's a double edge sword with its extension, it's not an unalloyed good).

  https://micro-editor.github.io/index.html

  https://lite-xl.com

  https://neovim.io

  https://code.visualstudio.com

  http://www.sublimetext.com

  And Emacs Lisp doesn't feel super accessible to most software developers under 40. Almost all its conventions come from a small little island, it's like marsupials in Australia, their own little parallel evolution.

• Scintilla is a free source code editing component with a permissive license
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023
• MacOS alternatives to Atom
  2 projects | /r/MacOS | 4 Feb 2023
• Can anyone recommend a good text editor (gedit alternative) that fits these requirements?
  2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 21 Jan 2023

  Lite XL.

• Other than Geany? Are there any modern C++ IDEs for Linux that work without making you crazy?
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 20 Jan 2023

  check this out Lite XL could be great..

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