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A lightweight text editor written in Lua

Language: Lua

#4 in Lua
Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows? | Oct 2022
Big fan of https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

Ticks all boxes: Small, Fast & Light.

Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows? | Oct 2022
saw https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl a few days ago posted.

Seems pretty fast, and has some plugins that might also add additional functionality. seems great for the occasional file edit without the vscode startup times.

Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua | Oct 2022
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Maintained & improved fork: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua | Oct 2022
The community decided to work on a fork of it and extend it further: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
Rust Editors to Replace TextMate 2 – The Agony of Despair | Jul 2022
https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

Are the most promising open alternatives to VSCode, Sublime that I've found.

Terminal editors tend to be non-starters for a serious development editor for me because I want more control over how I format my text. I want to mix fonts. I want to edit markdown with a preview. Emacs has been graphical mode forever.

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> Apps like VSCode and Discord have shown that it’s possible to achieve decent performance so we’re confident that over time the advantages of developing on Electron will outweigh the slight performance hit compared to native apps.

I wonder if this is really true. As I understand, Discord had to start using rust to overcome the slowness of electron, VSCode had to add some really complex code to render the text fast enough. At what point is it easier to just use native code over trying to optimize the electron beast? FWIW lite-xl[0] has a better approach. A core app built with C and SDL and then high level parts made in Lua.

[0] https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

Ask HW: Simple code editor? | Aug 2021
https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl