This is neat. I remember learning some Lua in order to write some custom Redis functions, and I was blown away by how handy of a language it can be. The indexing definitely tricked me a few times though.
Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope. Edit: Oh wait, I forgot Eclipse... That heavy thing :P
> There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope. What do you mean real open source project? I mean Linux is not going anywhere soon I'd say, or blender. Or are you talking about editors? There i…
I mean open source IDE's, real full featured developer environments for writing code. I don't talk about Open Source projects in general, but about competition for VS Code or Eclipse. There is something like Sublime Text, but it's not really open source and free.
Edit: With Vim and stuff I get your point, but I would say it's not really comparable to an UI-based IDE, it is command line stuff. Even if many people prefer that, it may not be as convenient as a GUI-based IDE for some of us.
Or am I missing something here? I really love(d) atom.io, but I need to find something else... (https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/)
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#13I've looked at this codebase and that of the XL version. Can a neone explain why there's C code there if it's meant to be lua? Genuine novice question. Thanks.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#15I've looked at this codebase and that of the XL version. Can a neone explain why there's C code there if it's meant to be lua? Genuine novice question. Thanks.
No idea about this project in particular, but Lua is designed with C operability in mind. It's very easy to integrate the two languages together and this is often done so that you can have performance-constrained code written in C with higher level scripting done in Lua.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope. What do you mean real open source project? I mean Linux is not going anywhere soon I'd say, or blender. Or are you talking about editors? There i…
I mean open source IDE's, real full featured developer environments for writing code. I don't talk about Open Source projects in general, but about competition for VS Code or Eclipse. There is something like Sublime Text, but it's not really open source and free. Edit: With Vim and stuff I get your point, but I would say it's not really comparable to an UI-based IDE, it is command line stuff. Even if many people pref…
I like Zed currently. It seems to get closest to my IDE needs by natively integrating with LSP while still being ridiculously fast (that JetBrains is building Fleet, which is also nice, but by comparison to their existing suite extremely lacking.
Both closed source though :/
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope. Edit: Oh wait, I forgot Eclipse... That heavy thing :P
lite-xl just did a new release - it's still being actively developed, although only by a few people; but one of the focuses is the small & maintainable codebase.
That's quite nice. But wasn't that the point with Atom.io, too? But there was GitHub behind them. I will try lite-xl and I wish them the very best :)
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#18I've looked at this codebase and that of the XL version. Can a neone explain why there's C code there if it's meant to be lua? Genuine novice question. Thanks.
The C is mainly used to wrap the Lua interpreter, so that the editor can be distributed without the need for the user to have a compatible Lua interpreter installed.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean open source IDE's, real full featured developer environments for writing code. I don't talk about Open Source projects in general, but about competition for VS Code or Eclipse. There is something like Sublime Text, but it's not really open source and free. Edit: With Vim and stuff I get your point, but I would say it's not really comparable to an UI-based IDE, it is command line stuff. Even if many people pref…
I like Zed currently. It seems to get closest to my IDE needs by natively integrating with LSP while still being ridiculously fast (that JetBrains is building Fleet, which is also nice, but by comparison to their existing suite extremely lacking. Both closed source though :/
Zed talks about those two IDE's I mentioned in their FAQ, so I really would like to try it. But you can't as a normal user for now. But I'm looking forward to try it some day.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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> There are many such projects, like Atom.io, whose support ends this year. I can't imagine this project will continue much further, even if I hope so. The only real open source project that is up today is Visual Studio Code, but that will continue to be maintained, I hope. What do you mean real open source project? I mean Linux is not going anywhere soon I'd say, or blender. Or are you talking about editors? There i…
I mean open source IDE's, real full featured developer environments for writing code. I don't talk about Open Source projects in general, but about competition for VS Code or Eclipse. There is something like Sublime Text, but it's not really open source and free. Edit: With Vim and stuff I get your point, but I would say it's not really comparable to an UI-based IDE, it is command line stuff. Even if many people pref…
Modern Emacs, at least, works better in GUI mode than in terminal mode. It's got a different style and design philosophy than VSCode et al—which results in a steeper learning curve for most people—but it's absolutely comparable in capabilities and general experience.
Pretty sure the same is true for Vim or Neovim, but can't vouch for them because I do not use them myself.