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I think the original lite scratched the itch of just being very, very simple. This is a bit less simple, but still decidedly more so than many other editors. It has very few dependencies, statically builds, and is just generally pretty extensible, whilst also being not an embedded web browser. What drew me to it was just the ease of creating new functionality. When I found it, it didn't have any perl syntax highlighting, so I looked into how to add that. It took me literally five minutes to get basic highlighting working. I'm not joking, with no previous exposure to the editor, and having not touched lua in years. After I had finished, I just kinda sat there, and went: "Huh.". I looked over the editor, and pretty much got the gist of it in a single day. I can't say that's ever happened before to me for something so feature-filled. I've tried to add plugins to other non-browser editors (like Code::Blocks, or Padre), and it was always a complete shitshow, and incredibly time-consuming and confusing (I still have trouble compiling Code::Blocks on my system, due to a huge esoteric error dump that popped at one point, and is proving frustratingly difficult to resolve). Lite just kinda worked out of the box with no real resistance. I really liked that about it. |