lite

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...

Still kinda restrictive with its license. Still uses NodeJS under its hood. 60+mb in size I am surprised nobody talked about https://github.com/rxi/lite Its a really simple Editor. I have recently started working on it. Not very feature rich, but gets the job done. Lua as plugins are also a plus

A related project is Lite, a graphical text editor that's a bit further along the frontier of useful features vs code simplicity. It includes lua 5.2 and SDL. On top of that, it's a few c files to handle input and rendering, and a set of neatly written lua modules for the logic. Repo and author write-up: https://github.com/rxi/lite https://rxi.github.io/lite_an_implementation_overview.html