Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust

> Tritium is implemented in pure Rust.

This beautiful software that looks a bit like VS Code, what did you use to make it? I'm guessing Tauri but curious if you used something else.

That's very kind -- let's hope the legal profession feels the same way. It's certainly inspired by VS code. It's using egui (https://github.com/emilk/egui) under the hood. Big hats off to Emil Ernerfeldt and the team at rerun (https://app.rerun.io/) for the incredible work on a great immediate mode GUI library.

My understanding working with law firms was that they are pretty bought-in to the Microsoft Office ecosystem, how well does Tritium integrate? Is the docx format fully supported? Can one person use Tritium without affecting others? Other than tabs, what does Tritium offer that two Word panes and a file browser pane tiled on screen can't cover?

I am interested in developing software in this space, so these are earnest questions and not criticism.

Ah yes, that is a bug where the layout engine can't fit it correctly and gets stuck in a loop. It maxes out rather than overflows, but the same effect. It's being worked on, and sorry for the inconvenience.

> My understanding working with law firms was that they are pretty bought-in to the Microsoft Office ecosystem, how well does Tritium integrate?

Absolutely. Overbought. They're owned by Microsoft. Go to a legal tech conference and there are thousands of vendors and not a single MSFT representative. All they want to do is push more Azureware on the deep pockets of profitable firms.

> Is the docx format fully supported?

It will be. There are certainly edge case features that don't render correctly yet, but those will come. The 80% that we care about should work. No data will be dropped, as mentioned elsewhere it will just look bad and gracefully degrade behind the scenes to a safe representation that ensures the data isn't lost.

> Can one person use Tritium without affecting others?

Yes, it's totally private and secure. Using Tritium doesn't require any cloud access or anything like that (other than to phone home with the auto-update or your LLM integration). I'm going to link the history to a separate hidden directory in the filesystem a la .git in the future which will allow some basic multi-editor features.

> Other than tabs, what does Tritium offer that two Word panes and a file browser pane tiled on screen can't cover?

Great question! It does the things lawyers care about: help them pick out symbols (defined terms, specifically) and run diffs (redlines) cheap and quick. It also renders PDFs (using pdfium).

> I am interested in developing software in this space, so these are earnest questions and not criticism.

Drop a line to the email in my bio. I'd love to chat offline.