lite

I tried it out briefly, and it seems promising so far! Zed reminds me a lot of Lite [1] and its community successor Lite-XL [2], which are also "built like a videogame" using a custom renderer and ui engine. [1] https://github.com/rxi/lite [2] https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

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

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 Its scope and layout makes it extremely tinkerable.

> 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

For any graphic intensive application it would be obviously be necessary to use a GPU. But for quick hacking / porting old demos / writing emulators and also text based UI it can be fast enough. With the added benefit of small footprint, high compatibility and fast startup time. The Lite editor https://github.com/rxi/lite is using pure software rendering (on top of SDL) in a rather naïve fashion but it still renders full 32bit colors at full resolution at more than 60FPS on my computer, not the best solution but still surprisingly fast given the simplicity of the renderer. This is typically a case where simple/naïve can beat a juggernaut like Electron.

https://github.com/rxi/microui the editor is a fork of: https://github.com/rxi/lite

Have you looked into lite (https://github.com/rxi/lite)? It's quite minimal, but easily extensible and is very lightweight.

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

Lately I've been studying lite editor which is mostly Lua code. It's quite easy to read the code and follow along. Before that I wrote my own editor which kind of works, but it mostly made me appreciate the lite's design. https://github.com/rxi/lite https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html https://rxi.github.io/a_simple_undo_system.html

This seems to just be a fork of Lite[0] that supports better text rendering. Lightweight GUI text editors are shocking hard to find. The primary reason I am not using Lite is the issues with Mac. So I’m definitely going to try using this. [0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite

Good to see a light weight editor. Another bloat-free editor I've my eye on is lite [1]. [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite

I desperately want this. I find text editors w/ basic linting to be too limited but full IDE's like Idea or even VSCode too heavy for some devices. Something in between :(. I've given up laptop development and am forced to work with my desktop until I can afford a better laptop because Idea/VSCode runs so slowly. FWIW, I use lite (https://github.com/rxi/lite) if I need a very lightweight text editor that has rust linting (https://github.com/liquidev/lintplus) and Idea if I'm at my desktop.

This, hundreds times this. I can't say how many years in a row I was experimenting with various GUI toolkits, libraries and concepts of an application like rxi/lite editor [0]. While I saw many good looking implementations but the very first what caught my attention was lack of any kind support to screen-reading software or problem with displaying right-click context menus. I even remember previous HN discussion when I pointed out few projects that could provide some screen-readers support [1]. Sadly, I would say 95% of all GUIs I know do not care about the accessibility. From the positive side, I am glad more and more hackers on HN focus on that matter. Also worth noting big players on the market really do take that point seriously, e.g. Flutter has a Semantics tag [2]. [0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/i

Thanks. Found the correct link: github.com/rxi/lite - First, it's ~20k ... which I admire in itself, but I doubt it'll have all the functionality of an advanced editor/IDE system. - Second, I don't know lua, don't have plans to learn lua. I'll take lua a teeny bit more seriously the day I don't have to decide if I need to shell out 22 pounds just to read the latest official documentation of a programming language I'm trying to learn [0] [0] https://store.feistyduck.com/products/programming-in-lua-fou...