Many people are going to compare Lite XL to Sublime Text and VSCode so I would like to make a few comments about the comparison. Sublime Text is a more mature

Many people are going to compare Lite XL to Sublime Text and VSCode so I would like to make a few comments about the comparison. Sublime Text is a more mature and has more resources than Lite XL. As far as I know it has a team of engineers dedicated to its development. It makes for an excellent editor and it is hard for Lite XL to compete. To my eyes the main reasons one *may* want to use Lite XL over Sublime Text are: 1. because Lite XL is free software 2. because customizing Lite XL using Lua is quite easy and fun If you are okay with being non free and you look at the features you may prefer Sublime Text and that's fine. Personally I moved from Sublime Text to Lite XL just because it isn't free. It is not only a matter of the cost of the license but also about the fact of being free software. If we speak about VSCode, it also has a ton of features more than Lite XL, a formidable set of plugins and growing and big company behind it with dedicated engineers so it is well placed to be much better than Lite XL. In reality, personally, I never used VSCode even before Lite XL, I was just using Sublime Text. The reasons I *personally* cannot tolerate to use VSCode is that: - it is slow to start, and it starts incrementally - the UI it is somewhat flickering, in the syntax highlighting and in the menu (for linux only) - it has a ton of popups, bells and whistles that are annoying to me. This is much a matter of personal preference. May people are tolerant to some slowness and some occasional flickering to have more features. In this case they may prefer VSCode and this is fine too. I personally prefer when the editor gets out of the way being fast, responsive and still nice on the eyes. In addition it is free software and easy to hack and this is very important too.