JEjeremy_wiebe·Mar 15, 2023
Should have read further.
https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode#source-code
https://github.com/SpartanJ/eepp/tree/develop/src/tools/ecod...
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Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance.
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5 sourcesI'm working on an code editor with a similar philosophy (or at least I'm trying to achieve similar goals) but it's completely open-source (MIT licence). It's called ecode and can be found here: https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode . It's also GPU accelerated, native code (no electron), has LSP integration and has many similar feature set.
I'm looking for collaborators, if someone is interested please message me.
In Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open betaThis is an ongoing trend that will continue until some of the new GUI-backed UIs gain some popularity. What we need right now is a real alternative to Electron based applications, and probably carrying new technologies. I know that we already have alternatives, like Qt, which is an amazing framework, but it doesn't fit all developer's needs and sometimes looks also "too big". I think that many devs are saturated of the HTML+CSS+JS ecosystem and want something new, maybe something less bloated in the sense of the tech specs. I celebrate the numerous projects that are appearing these days, to name a few: egui, iced, imgui, GuiLite, RmlUI, elements. They need more exposure, more collaborators, and more development, they need to grow.
Having said that, I'm working on an alternative GPU accelerated and retained-mode GUI called eepp (https://gi
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thub.com/SpartanJ/eepp/) while I work on a new code editor similar to Zed called ecode (https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode). The framework still needs a lot of work but presents some ideas that might be interesting to some. Retained-mode GUIs are a complex beast and it's hard to achieve simplicity (I think immediate-mode GUIs can't be beaten in that regard, but they have their own downsides). So I invite anyone interested in GPU accelerated GUIs to take a look at my projects (online demos are available), I'm looking for collaborators! (sadly C++ isn't very appealing these days, but my code-base is huge and I can't write everything from scratch in a new fancy and cool language).
For anyone confused why there’s no source:
> Currently, the source code is located at the eepp project repository. […] At some point, it will be migrated to this repository.
-- https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode#source-code
In Show HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editorShow HN: Ecode – A minimalist and fast open-source code editor
Hi HN! I've been working on a code editor and I think that it's mature enough to catch some interest. It's using a custom GPU accelerated GUI written in C++. Currently implements some interesting features: LSP, terminal, auto-completion, linters, formatters, custom keybindings, plugins and more. It's a hobby project but still intends to be an alternative to other popular code editors like Sublime, Kate, Lapce, Lite XL (and takes inspiration from them).
The project was born as a playground for the GUI I'm developing (eepp GUI) and is advanced enough to currently be my main code editor, but it's a work in progress, and many features are still pending. Some minor hints on how to use it:
Folders are used as project (and .gitignore is used to ignore files)
The wheel icon on the top-right has all the options you need (Ctrl/Cmd + M to show).
Som
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e keybidings to navigate any project (navigation is keyboard driven):
Ctrl/Cmd + K = Locate Files
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F = Global Search
Ctrl/Cmd + Number (Go to tab #)