ecode: This Lightweight Code Editor is Better than VSCode and Others

"Hybrid apps won - native apps were neglected. Nowadays, everyone uses cross-platform hybrid desktop apps written in JavaScript, ignoring excessive CPU and RAM usage. You most likely use a hybrid, native-like, cross-platform code editor for day-to-day programming activities. It may work fine on your computer because you've upgraded your hardware, since it may have worked slowly before. If you check the resource usage of your favorite code editor, you'll see not megabytes of RAM, but gigabytes of RAM; that's not fair and ethical."

"I faced this problem before and started using a truly native, lightweight code editor called Lite instead of just upgrading hardware to solve bloatware issues. Then I switched to Lite XL (a fork of Lite). Lite XL offered all VSCode features that I love, just with about 30 megabytes of RAM and 3 megabytes of disk usage - I never looked at VSCode or similar hybrid editors again."

ecode is a native, fast, lightweight, fully-featured, open-source code editor inspired by Lite, Lite XL, and Sublime Text. Many cross-platform desktop editors are hybrid JavaScript apps that consume excessive CPU and RAM. Users frequently upgrade hardware to accommodate such resource-heavy apps. Popular hybrid editors can use gigabytes of RAM rather than megabytes. Native editors like Lite and Lite XL offer similar features with tiny footprints; Lite XL operated with about 30 megabytes of RAM and roughly 3 megabytes of disk usage. ecode runs on Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and is implemented in C++ to maintain native performance while providing modern editor features.

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