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Top 8 Lua text-editor Projects
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InfluxDB
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ecode
Lightweight multi-platform code editor designed for modern hardware with a focus on responsiveness and performance.
Project mention: Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-24 -
textadept
Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and remarkably extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers.
As has happened before, I have to plug this stunningly underhyped editor, TextAdept: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
Minimalist fast native (not browser-based) code editor for Linux, Win, Mac, BSD. TUI and GUI version. First-class (ie. by same author) LSP package. Fully Lua-scriptable for needs beyond LSP. Succinct C + Lua code-base. FOSS, and matured & maintained ever since 2007. All the basic table stakes (syntax coloring, multi-select-and-edit etc).
Woulda skipped on Sublime back when, had I known about it then.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source text-editor projects in Lua? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | lite | 8,072 |
| 2 | ecode | 1,421 |
| 3 | textadept | 781 |
| 4 | vimacs | 351 |
| 5 | luavim | 46 |
| 6 | Usuim | 42 |
| 7 | nvim | 10 |
| 8 | led | 2 |
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