Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

Lite (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.

Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

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Post by blacksqr » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

So it uses SDL2 as a rendering engine. Does it roll its own widget library?

Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

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Post by brettermeier » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:31 PM UTC

stefanos82 wrote: post #3

The community decided to work on a fork of it and extend it further: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

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

Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

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Post by LeifCarrotson » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:36 PM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

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...

Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

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Post by cycomanic » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:53 PM UTC

brettermeier wrote: post #6

stefanos82 wrote: post #3

The community decided to work on a fork of it and extend it further: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

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 is Vim, Neovim and Emacs which all have shown that they will stick around for a while, so I really don't get what you mean.

Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

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Post by dflock » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:54 PM UTC

brettermeier wrote: post #6

stefanos82 wrote: post #3

The community decided to work on a fork of it and extend it further: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

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.

Re: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

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Post by dflock » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:56 PM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

This appears to be unmaintained.

Maintained & improved fork: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl