A lightweight code editor with Vim mode, Git integration, and more

[SoKamil]

> HOW DOES ATHAS COMPARE TO OTHER EDITORS?

> Athas is an opinionated but highly customizable code editor, aiming to be lighter on resources

From Github:

> built with React, TypeScript, and Tauri

With all due honesty, this is not lightweight at all compared to other editors.

[bdamm]

You got further than I did. Visiting the site with Safari 16.6 results in "406 Your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue."

Not what I'd expect from an informative page about a lightweight editor.

[ethmarks]

Does it really make sense to describe Athas as an editor with "agentic AI editing" if, by their own admission in the roadmap, they haven't even begun implementing it? Seems like they should be using the future tense or listing it as a planned feature.

[vivzkestrel]

When I see posts like this, I cant help but ask. How do you even build a code editor? What kinda of system design or OOP does it require. I couldnt find articles on HN searching for it so if anyone is reading, I super appreciate if you can share some links where talk about the methodology and thought process that goes into how to make a code editor from scratch

[cfiggers]

One great way to start learning is to code your own! Here's a step-by-step guide to writing a TUI text editor in ~1000 lines of code (and it's super easy to embellish as you go): https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/

[mudkipdev]

For internals a lot of text editors use ropes as the core data structure, which makes text buffers fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) https://github.com/cessen/ropey

[brianjlogan]

Why are there so many people making code editors?

It seems like we've hit a veritable Cambrian explosion of editors and I don't understand what market signals are being picked up where people find the editors insufficient.

[WD-42]

Do you consider forking VSCode making a code editor? I wouldn't. Not that this is one of those, but most "new" editors seem to be.

[kgwxd]

LSP for sure. I was itching to try my hand at it when they first got big, but never got around to it.

[brazukadev]

Software is changing, everything is up for grabs. Lots of people are making Notion clones, slack clones, browsers, IDEs.