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CudaText: Open-source, cross-platform text editor, written in Lazarus

144 points by berryton 4y ago

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ziotom78 4y ago
The detailed list of features is here: https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText I did not know of this project, but it looks really good. It's nice to see projects developed in Lazarus!
libpcap 4y ago
What's with the CUDA reference?
- thebooktocome 4y ago
  Perhaps it’s short for barracuda?
  - weare138 4y ago
    There's a note buried at the bottom of the page: Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".
- lightdot 4y ago
  That got me wondering at a first glance too. But in this case, the word stands for "čuda" not CUDA. Čuda = miracles, wonders, in Serbian (and several other languages). And odd conglomerate of words from different languages perhaps, one even anglicized (ASCIIzed?) at that... Well, it does get the people talking, I suppose.
  - Uehreka 4y ago
    In trademark law, the owner of a mark (Nvidia in the case of CUDA) can usually make someone stop using a mark if it would lead to “consumer confusion about the source of the goods” (i.e. people seeing “CudaText” and assuming it has an association with Nvidia/CUDA). IANAL, and have no idea how likely Nvidia would be to succeed in a trademark dispute with this developer. But in situations like this, it’s often good to just not use a name if a large section of your target audience could become confused upon hearing it. Even if you didn’t know about the other product when you came up with your name, and even if it’s technically legal.
    - Alexey_Tor 4y ago
      Author of CudaText here. If I will get the complain from NVIDIA I can rename the project to 'CudeText', word 'cude' is 'miracle'. Now I think that similar name was a little mistake from my side, I needed to name it 'CudeText' earlier.
- dmitrybrant 4y ago
  It's from the Serbian word "čuda", which is pronounced "chuda". It means "miracles", and also occurs in many other Slavic languages (Russian "чуда", etc)
sigzero 4y ago
Screenshots etc. https://cudatext.github.io/ https://cudatext.github.io/
- formerly_proven 4y ago
  Uhm yeah, that is uh, quite, ah, reminiscent, yes.
  - rpastuszak 4y ago
    What?
mhd 4y ago
Hmm, interesting genesis: > When it was 2014 or 2015, we had some big events in Russia (Crimea related) so many people here were excited. I was too, so I wanted to program some new project. https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2020-community-choice-project-month-cudatext/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2020-community-choice-pro...
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- actionfromafar 4y ago
  So it started as a celebretion of the annexation of Crimea by Russia?
  - JasonFruit 4y ago
    It could be, "With all the excitement going on, finding a nice programming project to distract me seemed like a good idea."
    - DiggyJohnson 4y ago
      We need to make sure this isn’t the neutral-connotation usage of the word “excitement”. A plane crashing into the neighbors house can be “exciting”.
  - moistly 4y ago
    > Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles". [uncomfortable silence]
    - zekica 4y ago
      The word you are referring to is "čuda" or equivalently in cyrilic "чуда" pronounced "chuda".
  - Alexey_Tor 4y ago
    The CudaText author is here. No, I did not celebrate the Crimea 'annexation' (in local Ru talks, we cannot name it 'annexation', we must name it 'reunion'). But I was reading such big amount of news at that time, in 2014, that I was excited only from this wave of news. Many patriotic people in Rus were happy and welcomed that. Many opposition people in Rus were not happy and did not welcome that. But the wave of news was very big. For me the Crimea was not positive news. I never have been in Crimea. I never got the FREE ticket to rest in Crimea. The rest in Crimea is not cheep. In 2014 and in 2022. It costs big amount.
smartmic 4y ago
I had to change my editor every now and then in the last years, because something bothered me... the eternal search for the holy grail, so to speak. So Vim and Emacs have already fallen by the wayside. Now I'm actually stuck with CudaText. In my opinion the editor is really first class, I recommend to try it out. For me, however, also very exciting is the realization that Lazarus/FreePascal programs generally always stand out very positively. The speed and memory efficiency is remarkable!
yardshop 4y ago
Cool! I just learned about this editor randomly about a week ago [1], then mentioned it on the thread about Double Commander the other day, a file manager also written in Lazarus [2]. I'm just about to get it to compile. I'm writing a Python version of the Bash script that downloads and installs all of the packages. It's a learning project so it's pretty messy but I intend to clean it up and submit it to the developers at some point. CudaText is nice, I'm using it to write this compiling script to get to know it better. It's sort of SublimeText-adjacent but also its own thing. I already have a long list of things I want to replicate from my Sublime setup. [1] http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/05/spotlight-cudatext-hot-replacement-for.html http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/05/spotlight-cudatext-hot... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331716
- themodelplumber 4y ago
  The author is really responsive. I reached out about the ability to make snippets run external commands and place the output in the editor. Within a day I think he had implemented it as a plugin. I use like 100+ of these snippets in Geany, so it was awesome to see it become a feature in another interesting new editor.
breadchris 4y ago
I thought this was going to tell me about a hardware accelerated text editor.
- moffkalast 4y ago
  Ray tracing for your fonts!
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  There are multiple GPU-accelerated terminal emulators; I suppose, why not a text editor?
  - zokier 4y ago
    https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerated-rendering https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...
- amelius 4y ago
  Edit your text on a virtual beach with VR goggles.
- Sin2x 4y ago
  From 2020 interview: SF: What is the next big thing for CudaText? AT: A mate of mine, young programmer Artem Gavrilov from Saint Petersburg, has suggested that editor rendering should be in OpenGL, and he has good experience in 3D graphics and Pascal. I am thinking now how this can be done, it’s a lot of coding even with ready OpenGL libraries. This will make scrolling in editor much smoother. And another idea: make configurable docked panels. CudaText has several panels (Code Tree, Project Manager, Console, Output, etc.) but they are locked in the side or bottom, no configuration, panel cannot be moved from side to bottom, no docking to the right. It’s not needed much but configurable panels are handy.
mrtweetyhack 4y ago
fithisux 4y ago
Fantastic piece of software. I used it extensively under Ubuntu and Windows. If they make it available through brew I will use it in MacOS too. Another one ultrafast program Laz/Pas related was LazPaint. At some point there was a NotePas too!
signaru 4y ago
Besides Lazarus itself, in my opinion after watching the video demo, this may be the best opensource software written in Lazarus/Freepascal. Sad that I knew about this before but ignored it wrongly thinking CUDA had to do with GPUs.
dragosbulugean 4y ago
Product Marketing Issue: As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.
- lf-non 4y ago
  As a user of "Hacker" News, you are potentially .... a hacker, who is quite likely to care if it is possible to hack on it in general (hence it matters that its open source) and you also likely care if it is easy for you to hack on it in particular (hence the implementation and plugin languages matter too).
  - dragosbulugean 4y ago
    Let's consider Visual Studio Code. It's OSS — still, I read the codebase a couple of times and I wouldn't venture into hacking into it — it's too large. Being OSS enables hackability, it doesn't provide or guarantee it.
    - lf-non 4y ago
      I wasn't claiming that OSS necessarily enables a specific individual to be able to hack on it. Just in case of your example if as a TS programmer I learn about a new code IDE that is open source and is written in TS, I might be more motivated to go check it out and explore it. So that fact does deserve mentioning - that is all I was saying. Whether or not I eventually end up contributing to it depends on a lot of factors and is besides the point.
- ChefboyOG 4y ago
  Hacker News is a largely technical community. If there was any community that would respond to your product being open source, interoperable, or written in a niche language, this would be it.
- KronisLV 4y ago
  > As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus. Any piece of software being open source is generally a good thing, since it's less likely that such projects might die off and disappear without someone (even yourself) being able to maintain them, or even add features/fix bugs. Being cross platform is also a great quality, especially since otherwise you might find yourself using different pieces of software on different OSes, which might be a bit cumbersome. For example, there is no Notepad++ on Linux (using Wine is a bit suboptimal) and so you might find yourself looking in the direction of something like Notepadqq, but obviously it might not give you 1:1 the same experience. That's not the case with something like Visual Studio Code, or even CudaText! And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face, thanks to its lcl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library They actually have an entire gallery of software written with Lazarus/FreePascal and it's rather interesting to behold: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal
pkphilip 4y ago
This editor is crazy fast and is only a 15MB download (.deb)!
- Alexey_Tor 4y ago
  CudaText has its slow parts (scrolling by Mouse-wheel is not smooth), we are limited by the fact of missing hardware acceleration. But it has its fast parts: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editors https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor...
6ue7nNMEEbHcM 4y ago
The amount of work put into this from single person seems astonishing. Per a forum post the author doesn't even care about the donation page working. I wonder how people get to this point in their life that they can spend all days just coding their oss projects for fun. It seems so out of reach for me.
- Alexey_Tor 4y ago
  You are exaggerating, I develop it for 6-7 years, and not every day is coding.
indigodaddy 4y ago
Looks like there is no macos aarch64 version on the sourceforge binary download site? Just seeing amd64 (unless that download includes aarch64 compatibility)
- Alexey_Tor 4y ago
  It (macOS aarch64) will be there in some weeks, maybe in about 10 days. Older version - https://sourceforge.net/projects/cudatext/files/release/1.166.5.0/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/cudatext/files/release/1.16... macOS AArch64 version needs this to be run: xattr -cr /Applications/CudaText.app/
  - indigodaddy 4y ago
    Cool, thank you! Will be trying it out at work..
gwenzek 4y ago
How does it compare to Sublime Text? This seems to be a FAQ but the link appears to be broken, and I didn't find a corresponding entry in the Wiki.
- Alexey_Tor 4y ago
  The proper wiki page - https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editors https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor... . 1- CudaText advantages over Sublime Text 3; 2- CudaText advantages over Visual Studio Code; 3- CudaText disadvantages compared to Sublime Text / VSCode. Where did you get the broken link?
  - gwenzek 4y ago
    On the github.io landing page there is a link to https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime_Text_3 https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime...

144 points by berryton 4y ago

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The detailed list of features is here: https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText I did not know of this project, but it looks really good. It's nice to see projects developed in Lazarus!

libpcap 4y ago

What's with the CUDA reference?

thebooktocome 4y ago
Perhaps it’s short for barracuda?
- weare138 4y ago
  There's a note buried at the bottom of the page: Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".
lightdot 4y ago
That got me wondering at a first glance too. But in this case, the word stands for "čuda" not CUDA. Čuda = miracles, wonders, in Serbian (and several other languages). And odd conglomerate of words from different languages perhaps, one even anglicized (ASCIIzed?) at that... Well, it does get the people talking, I suppose.
- Uehreka 4y ago
  In trademark law, the owner of a mark (Nvidia in the case of CUDA) can usually make someone stop using a mark if it would lead to “consumer confusion about the source of the goods” (i.e. people seeing “CudaText” and assuming it has an association with Nvidia/CUDA). IANAL, and have no idea how likely Nvidia would be to succeed in a trademark dispute with this developer. But in situations like this, it’s often good to just not use a name if a large section of your target audience could become confused upon hearing it. Even if you didn’t know about the other product when you came up with your name, and even if it’s technically legal.
  - Alexey_Tor 4y ago
    Author of CudaText here. If I will get the complain from NVIDIA I can rename the project to 'CudeText', word 'cude' is 'miracle'. Now I think that similar name was a little mistake from my side, I needed to name it 'CudeText' earlier.
dmitrybrant 4y ago
It's from the Serbian word "čuda", which is pronounced "chuda". It means "miracles", and also occurs in many other Slavic languages (Russian "чуда", etc)

sigzero 4y ago

Screenshots etc. https://cudatext.github.io/ https://cudatext.github.io/

formerly_proven 4y ago
Uhm yeah, that is uh, quite, ah, reminiscent, yes.
- rpastuszak 4y ago
  What?

mhd 4y ago

Hmm, interesting genesis: > When it was 2014 or 2015, we had some big events in Russia (Crimea related) so many people here were excited. I was too, so I wanted to program some new project. https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2020-community-choice-project-month-cudatext/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/march-2020-community-choice-pro...

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actionfromafar 4y ago
So it started as a celebretion of the annexation of Crimea by Russia?
- JasonFruit 4y ago
  It could be, "With all the excitement going on, finding a nice programming project to distract me seemed like a good idea."
  - DiggyJohnson 4y ago
    We need to make sure this isn’t the neutral-connotation usage of the word “excitement”. A plane crashing into the neighbors house can be “exciting”.
- moistly 4y ago
  > Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles". [uncomfortable silence]
  - zekica 4y ago
    The word you are referring to is "čuda" or equivalently in cyrilic "чуда" pronounced "chuda".
- Alexey_Tor 4y ago
  The CudaText author is here. No, I did not celebrate the Crimea 'annexation' (in local Ru talks, we cannot name it 'annexation', we must name it 'reunion'). But I was reading such big amount of news at that time, in 2014, that I was excited only from this wave of news. Many patriotic people in Rus were happy and welcomed that. Many opposition people in Rus were not happy and did not welcome that. But the wave of news was very big. For me the Crimea was not positive news. I never have been in Crimea. I never got the FREE ticket to rest in Crimea. The rest in Crimea is not cheep. In 2014 and in 2022. It costs big amount.

smartmic 4y ago

I had to change my editor every now and then in the last years, because something bothered me... the eternal search for the holy grail, so to speak. So Vim and Emacs have already fallen by the wayside. Now I'm actually stuck with CudaText. In my opinion the editor is really first class, I recommend to try it out. For me, however, also very exciting is the realization that Lazarus/FreePascal programs generally always stand out very positively. The speed and memory efficiency is remarkable!

yardshop 4y ago

Cool! I just learned about this editor randomly about a week ago [1], then mentioned it on the thread about Double Commander the other day, a file manager also written in Lazarus [2]. I'm just about to get it to compile. I'm writing a Python version of the Bash script that downloads and installs all of the packages. It's a learning project so it's pretty messy but I intend to clean it up and submit it to the developers at some point. CudaText is nice, I'm using it to write this compiling script to get to know it better. It's sort of SublimeText-adjacent but also its own thing. I already have a long list of things I want to replicate from my Sublime setup. [1] http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/05/spotlight-cudatext-hot-replacement-for.html http://lazplanet.blogspot.com/2018/05/spotlight-cudatext-hot... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331716 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331716

themodelplumber 4y ago
The author is really responsive. I reached out about the ability to make snippets run external commands and place the output in the editor. Within a day I think he had implemented it as a plugin. I use like 100+ of these snippets in Geany, so it was awesome to see it become a feature in another interesting new editor.

breadchris 4y ago

I thought this was going to tell me about a hardware accelerated text editor.

moffkalast 4y ago
Ray tracing for your fonts!
yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
There are multiple GPU-accelerated terminal emulators; I suppose, why not a text editor?
- zokier 4y ago
  https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerated-rendering https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/hardware-accelerat...
amelius 4y ago
Edit your text on a virtual beach with VR goggles.
Sin2x 4y ago
From 2020 interview: SF: What is the next big thing for CudaText? AT: A mate of mine, young programmer Artem Gavrilov from Saint Petersburg, has suggested that editor rendering should be in OpenGL, and he has good experience in 3D graphics and Pascal. I am thinking now how this can be done, it’s a lot of coding even with ready OpenGL libraries. This will make scrolling in editor much smoother. And another idea: make configurable docked panels. CudaText has several panels (Code Tree, Project Manager, Console, Output, etc.) but they are locked in the side or bottom, no configuration, panel cannot be moved from side to bottom, no docking to the right. It’s not needed much but configurable panels are handy.

mrtweetyhack 4y ago

fithisux 4y ago

Fantastic piece of software. I used it extensively under Ubuntu and Windows. If they make it available through brew I will use it in MacOS too. Another one ultrafast program Laz/Pas related was LazPaint. At some point there was a NotePas too!

signaru 4y ago

Besides Lazarus itself, in my opinion after watching the video demo, this may be the best opensource software written in Lazarus/Freepascal. Sad that I knew about this before but ignored it wrongly thinking CUDA had to do with GPUs.

dragosbulugean 4y ago

Product Marketing Issue: As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus.

lf-non 4y ago
As a user of "Hacker" News, you are potentially .... a hacker, who is quite likely to care if it is possible to hack on it in general (hence it matters that its open source) and you also likely care if it is easy for you to hack on it in particular (hence the implementation and plugin languages matter too).
- dragosbulugean 4y ago
  Let's consider Visual Studio Code. It's OSS — still, I read the codebase a couple of times and I wouldn't venture into hacking into it — it's too large. Being OSS enables hackability, it doesn't provide or guarantee it.
  - lf-non 4y ago
    I wasn't claiming that OSS necessarily enables a specific individual to be able to hack on it. Just in case of your example if as a TS programmer I learn about a new code IDE that is open source and is written in TS, I might be more motivated to go check it out and explore it. So that fact does deserve mentioning - that is all I was saying. Whether or not I eventually end up contributing to it depends on a lot of factors and is besides the point.
ChefboyOG 4y ago
Hacker News is a largely technical community. If there was any community that would respond to your product being open source, interoperable, or written in a niche language, this would be it.
KronisLV 4y ago
> As a user of Hacker News, I don't care that it's open-source, cross-platform or written in Lazarus. Any piece of software being open source is generally a good thing, since it's less likely that such projects might die off and disappear without someone (even yourself) being able to maintain them, or even add features/fix bugs. Being cross platform is also a great quality, especially since otherwise you might find yourself using different pieces of software on different OSes, which might be a bit cumbersome. For example, there is no Notepad++ on Linux (using Wine is a bit suboptimal) and so you might find yourself looking in the direction of something like Notepadqq, but obviously it might not give you 1:1 the same experience. That's not the case with something like Visual Studio Code, or even CudaText! And finally, it's always great to see Lazarus software, it's one of the nicer ways to create GUI software and largely sidesteps some of the framework related issues that other languages face, thanks to its lcl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Component_Library They actually have an entire gallery of software written with Lazarus/FreePascal and it's rather interesting to behold: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal https://wiki.freepascal.org/Projects_using_Free_Pascal

pkphilip 4y ago

This editor is crazy fast and is only a 15MB download (.deb)!

Alexey_Tor 4y ago
CudaText has its slow parts (scrolling by Mouse-wheel is not smooth), we are limited by the fact of missing hardware acceleration. But it has its fast parts: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editors https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor...

6ue7nNMEEbHcM 4y ago

The amount of work put into this from single person seems astonishing. Per a forum post the author doesn't even care about the donation page working. I wonder how people get to this point in their life that they can spend all days just coding their oss projects for fun. It seems so out of reach for me.

Alexey_Tor 4y ago
You are exaggerating, I develop it for 6-7 years, and not every day is coding.

indigodaddy 4y ago

Looks like there is no macos aarch64 version on the sourceforge binary download site? Just seeing amd64 (unless that download includes aarch64 compatibility)

Alexey_Tor 4y ago
It (macOS aarch64) will be there in some weeks, maybe in about 10 days. Older version - https://sourceforge.net/projects/cudatext/files/release/1.166.5.0/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/cudatext/files/release/1.16... macOS AArch64 version needs this to be run: xattr -cr /Applications/CudaText.app/
- indigodaddy 4y ago
  Cool, thank you! Will be trying it out at work..

gwenzek 4y ago

How does it compare to Sublime Text? This seems to be a FAQ but the link appears to be broken, and I didn't find a corresponding entry in the Wiki.

Alexey_Tor 4y ago
The proper wiki page - https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editors https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor... . 1- CudaText advantages over Sublime Text 3; 2- CudaText advantages over Visual Studio Code; 3- CudaText disadvantages compared to Sublime Text / VSCode. Where did you get the broken link?
- gwenzek 4y ago
  On the github.io landing page there is a link to https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime_Text_3 https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime...