SpartanJ

> Why? Genuine curiosity, what's the angle for a market for sublime/zed alternatives? What are they lacking?

In my opinion, Sublime’s biggest gap is that it’s not open-source, and there aren’t many (if any) open-source alternatives that match its feature set, performance, and unique user experience, Sublime just feels especially nice. Zed comes closest, and I think it’s fantastic, but it’s VC-backed, so their focus on profitability will likely shape the user experience over time (as some users are already noticing). Every editor has its pros and cons, and preferences vary, but there’s always room for innovation. Even subtle differences can add up to a significantly better user experience. With ecode, I’m aiming to deliver a polished, enjoyable experience while subtly innovating on common editor features. That said, ecode is opinionated in some ways, so it won’t suit everyone, though it’s highly customizable and configurable.

> And congrats on your project, looks interesting.

Thanks! =)

Thanks! Currently it does not but it's not something particularly complex to implement so I can add it if there's interest! I haven't used NP++ in some time so I don't remember exactly how it behaves but I'll take a look.

It's also important to mention that given that the projected inflation for 2024 is above 200% and historically this taxes are not properly annually updated, the most probable scenario is that in a year or a few months most people that were benefited are going to pay income taxes again. So this are just populist measures to get some votes for the incoming elections (also mostly forced by the liberal party that is leading the polls), but won't last much.

Thanks for the compliment! The graphics module is the core of the application (the UI consumes the Graphics module for all the rendering). There are two modules that aren't currently being used in ecode: physics and audio. I'll keep the audio module for the moment (it's very tiny and doesn't add new dependencies, and I'll probably use it for optional notifications). The physics module it will be probably moved apart as a complementary module as I did already with the "Maps" module for this release.

That depends on what you want to extend. You can expand the capabilities of the LSP, linter, and formatter by adding new configurations. You can also create new color themes for the editor and the terminal. You can also customize the UI (it won't be that easy, but you can). But, if you want to create a new plugin... since it's native code you'll need to at least fork the repository and create the plugin on your own repository. I don't plan to be a dictator, just a supervisor. And of course, I'm more than open to getting new collaborators (this is the main reason I'm publishing it), that would be great. I just want to ensure that my application branch is "safe" (no malicious code, no horrendous implementations, etc).

Thank you for your kind words! Almost no one knew the project until some hours ago so there was no community to communicate with, there's nothing available for the moment. I would love to have a place to chat if people is interested in the project. As for now, just open new issues, we can use that for feature requests, ideas, and of course bug reports.

Thank you for the support! I really appreciate it!

Author here: Besides the fact that you were very rude with your comment I'll give you my point of view.

> I have carefully set up my desktop environment the way I like it, specifically the way menus are displayed, colours, fonts, icons, keyboard shortcuts, notifications. Ecode does not even make a single attempt to adhere which was not acceptable when Winamp came out and certainly not acceptable in 2023.

I understand what you want, but it's not an easy task I it's not something I care anymore. It's technically possible to create a theme that looks almost exactly like anyone's desktop but I don't think it is worth it. eepp, the underlying technology behind ecode is more like HTML+CSS. All the styling is done via CSS and the layouting with XML, and it's more similar to the web technology than native desktop widgets (such thing stopped to be a thing in every OS except macOS).

> Stop "skinning" software, it is literally easier to do nothing and then the software will automatically do the correct thing and follow the rules.

Then you don't understand the problem.

> When I paste in text, it only shows squares, afaict only a few scripts like Latin or Cyrillic work.

The README file clarifies this. For the moment I don't support wide-characters (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc) and the editor only supports UTF-8. I'll add support for it at some point. Wide-characters are only supported in the terminal for the moment.

> The input method editor does not work correctly, I can't see what I'm typing.

I guess you're referring to IME support. It's still pending.

> Unusable, into the rubbish bin it goes.

I have no problem with critics, but this is not the way to have a conversation about an open-source application. At least take the time to read the README and understand that this is work in progress. Such comments like yours are a waste of time.