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Yes, that's right. To be honest, I spent some time already to inspect and analyze its code, because I found it as a nice example to learn Rust by rewriting this project. rxi/lite have tens of functions in C to provide operation of file-system, implement fuzzy-finder or simple rendering calls for rectangles. Rest of code is written in Lua that shares a lot of signature-compatible functions with Sublime Text API. There is only Lua, STB (stb_truetype) and SDL2. Also compilation script is basic shell script [0]. It is also worth noting there is interesting contribution to provide sub-pixel rendering [1] (now, a fork [2]) which includes usage of libagg [3]. [0]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/build.sh [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/issues/145#issuecomment-64155409... [2]: https://github.com/franko/lite-xl [3]: http://antigrain.com/

Indeed, however I think we might replace Go with any programming language and your comment will still make sense. Currently, web-browsers are the best have-it-all platforms, and outside web-technologies there isn't many good alternatives. We landed in 2020 and we don't have any complete, native-like, cross-platform GUI toolkit (if we skip Qt and GTK). In last years a lot projects have appeared, which were trying to compete in GUI toolkit market share. All of them had its scope limited, however they brought quite fresh look on declarative programming interface [0][1], superb 2D rendering pipeline [2][3], ease of embedding [4] and adaption to low-power devices [5] but none of them is "complete". Personally, I am amazed of the implementation of rxi/lite [6], which is just an app (C with Lua) based on SDL2 library. It uses 2x less RAM than s

A decade ago, I thought Lua would be where JS is today. But JS won... A new text editor in Lua, why not: https://github.com/rxi/lite (Rxi is awesome, see https://rxi.itch.io/)

If you are looking for a lighter than flyweight editor check out https://github.com/rxi/lite

Start Notepad++ or https://github.com/rxi/lite and then compare the startup speed with VSCode.

It seems to include the entirety of Lua - https://github.com/rxi/lite/tree/master/src/lib/lua52 Which is written in C.

Checking the Github repo, it says 92.3% C[1], 2.6% Lua[2], why does the author claim it's a "text editor written in Lua" instead? [1]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/search?l=c [2]: https://github.com/rxi/lite/search?l=lua

If you compare the SDL-rendered text to the window chrome (OS-rendered), they appear to be similar. It just looks like this is a screenshot of a low DPI display. Nonetheless, peeking at the repo's issues shows that high DPI displays haven't quite been figured out either: https://github.com/rxi/lite/issues/46

My Lua isn't strong, but I think this is what you're looking for: Data structure initialization: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/data/core/doc/init.l... How insertion works here, which illuminates how the table is used: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/143f8867a13a35f5688ad7c9771...

Yep: https://github.com/rxi/lite/blob/master/src/renderer.c

on catalina os x; I just went git clone https://github.com/rxi/lite.git cd lite ./build.sh ./lite and an app did start up, but the text gets cut off in the editor window, and I can't quit the app from the menu