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

"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;"

"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. I recently started evaluating another lightweight code editor written in C++, so it theoretically works..."

Ecode is a native, fast, lightweight, fully-featured, open-source code editor inspired by Lite, Lite XL, and Sublime Text. Cross-platform hybrid desktop apps written in JavaScript commonly consume excessive CPU and RAM and often require hardware upgrades to perform smoothly. Popular hybrid code editors frequently use gigabytes of RAM instead of megabytes. Switching to truly native editors can dramatically reduce resource usage. Lite XL demonstrates that VSCode-like features can run with about 30 megabytes of RAM and minimal disk space. C++-based lightweight editors aim to deliver native performance and low memory footprint as practical alternatives.

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