This appears to be unmaintained.
So? It's a text editor. It's not like it's dependent on continued uptime of cloud services to function...
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Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
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Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#32Lite (and lite-xl) is an amazing little editor. I especially love how fast the program opens. There’s just a few small things that bother me enough to keep me from using it, but I remain impressed by the code and how lightweight it is.
Hey; I'm part of the dev community over at lite-xl; what're your top asks? I can see if we can throw it into the feature queue (though the queue is already pretty long).
Thanks for reaching out! At the moment I can't think of anything specific. It was just some small papercuts that added up enough to prevent me from using it regularly, not a lack of features. But lite-xl did show me that building a text editor isn't as difficult as I first thought, and I now have many ideas for my own personal editor that I might make one day. If I ever give lite-xl another try I'll be sure to share any requests
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey; I'm part of the dev community over at lite-xl; what're your top asks? I can see if we can throw it into the feature queue (though the queue is already pretty long).
Thanks for reaching out! At the moment I can't think of anything specific. It was just some small papercuts that added up enough to prevent me from using it regularly, not a lack of features. But lite-xl did show me that building a text editor isn't as difficult as I first thought, and I now have many ideas for my own personal editor that I might make one day. If I ever give lite-xl another try I'll be sure to share…
Fair enough; totally understand. If you ever can think of anything please don't hesitate to fire up an issue on the tracker. We're (very slowly) going through them.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#34Earlier 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…
Emacs is not "command line stuff", it has a fully featured GTK based GUI interface, it even runs natively on Wayland today!
I just wanted to point this out because it's extremely common for people to assume that Emacs is a terminal based program since it's often grouped together with and compared to (Neo)Vi(m).
It's not really logical to compare Emacs with the Vi style editors since they are completely different things. It's kind of annoying that it gets grouped in with them, since it probably causes a lot of people to never even give it a fair chance.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#35Earlier 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.
I see the last release as January of this year. That's not "just did a new release" to me.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#36This appears to be unmaintained.
So? It's a text editor. It's not like it's dependent on continued uptime of cloud services to function...
Even text editors can have security vulnerabilities that allow privilege escalation. Especially if they support plugins which this does.
To each their own, but I wouldn't risk it.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I see the last release as January of this year. That's not "just did a new release" to me.
Yeah, there's a pre-release here: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/releases/tag/v2.1.0
There were some minor issues having the dev team get a working macbook that could test some stuff, to make sure there were no regressions. We're going through and closing PRs now, so hopefully should transition to a full release shortly.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for reaching out! At the moment I can't think of anything specific. It was just some small papercuts that added up enough to prevent me from using it regularly, not a lack of features. But lite-xl did show me that building a text editor isn't as difficult as I first thought, and I now have many ideas for my own personal editor that I might make one day. If I ever give lite-xl another try I'll be sure to share…
Fair enough; totally understand. If you ever can think of anything please don't hesitate to fire up an issue on the tracker. We're (very slowly) going through them.
Personally, I'd like to see Lpeg integration, and support for Scintillua lexers:
https://github.com/orbitalquark/scintillua
Which would give fairly complete syntax coverage, and a good foundation for building more sophisticated tools.
Lua patterns are fairly primitive, while the opposite is true of Lpeg.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#39Earlier 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…
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.
Pretty sure the same is true for Vim or Neovim
Yes; especially Neovim, which not only has several GUI’s but it's designed to be embeddable, including into VS Code or a web browser. Neovim has native support for LSP and Treesitter, which enables it to IDE-like things.
Neovim is extensible using Lua 5.1 and comes with LuaJIT for speed.
It’s not just a command line thing.
Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
#40This appears to be unmaintained.
So? It's a text editor. It's not like it's dependent on continued uptime of cloud services to function...
It is common for build time or runtime dependencies to change in incompatible ways meaning eventually you might not even be able to run it or even built it from source.