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CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor written in Object Pascal

abeppu 3y ago
I kept waiting for the part where they explain why the GPU is important, but no, the "cuda" part is from the Bosnian word for "wonder" or "miracle". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CudaText https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CudaText
- Jabihjo 3y ago
  čuda
TedDallas 3y ago
Nice to see a cool looking cross platform editor written in Free Pascal with Lazarus. Pascal is a surprisingly expressive language.
- _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  Ex-Delphi code here, and I have to loudly disagree about Pascal being expressive (at least in the context of more modern languages). But I was, and remain, very fond of it. (to the downvoter: my fave lang is Scala. That's expressive)
  - wdb 3y ago
    Do you remember good old TSyntaxMemo?
peter_d_sherman 3y ago
Me thinking, whilst reading the HN title for this article: "CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor..." Me: "Meh, yet another open source code editor..." "written in Object Pascal..." Me: (as a long-time Delphi/FreePascal/Object Pascal programmer/afficionado): "OK, NOW I WANT IT!!!" :-) <g> :-)
- mike_hock 3y ago
  Can you pitch Pascal to me? Why should it be my next language to learn?
  - peter_d_sherman 3y ago
    If you tell me what your goals as a programmer are, and tell me what languages you already know and how much experience you have with them (a resume, LinkedIn profile, or GitHub account would help me to understand a lot about you) and explain to me why the current languages you know are insufficient to reach your goals as a programmer -- then perhaps I could pitch Pascal to you, although it would be highly unlikely that you would absolutely need it in today's rich and diverse programming language landscape, and I'd probably wind up recommending a different programming language and/or methodology, relative to your programming goals...
    - mike_hock 3y ago
      This answer is honestly very different from what I would have expected from a language afficionado. If I had this purely utilitarian view on learning, then I most likely wouldn't even consider Pascal in 2023.
      - peter_d_sherman 3y ago
        >Can you pitch Pascal to me? Why should it be my next language to learn? Let us suppose that I knew Ancient Greek. Now, I don't know Ancient Greek -- but let us suppose that I did... And let us suppose that I was asked randomly by someone, someone whom I did not yet know, the following: "Can you pitch Ancient Greek to me? Why should it be my next language to learn?" OK, so if that were the case, basically I'd have more questions for my interlocutor before I issued any recommendations... For example (including but not limited to:) Does my interlocutor like to study ancient languages? Does my interlocutor like to study present day languages? Which present day languages, other than their own native tongue, have they studied? What were the challenges and/or hardships experienced with such studies, if they engaged on them? What specific goals would they have with learning Ancient Greek (just to see if they could do it -- or would they like to read and/or retranslate a specific text in Ancient Greek? Which one? Why?) etc., etc. Also, why is it specifically necessary for me, a random user on HN to pitch Pascal to you? This is the age of Google -- you could simply query Google which such queries as "Pascal benefits", "Pascal advantages", "Pascal sellling points", "why people like Pascal", etc., etc., and I'm sure you'd find much better advice than the advice that I could give you, "out there"... Finally, if you wish to study Pascal, do it. If you don't wish to study Pascal, don't. It's like Yoda said: "Either do -- or do not...". My advice, if I were to have it, and if I were to give it -- would probably not motivate you to take a specific path of action, one way or the other... Finally, to reverse your question: Can you pitch me on why I should pitch Pascal to you, to me? ? Ya see my problem? Or did you not expect that answer, also?
WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago
I wasn't aware of this editor, looks quite nice, might be the opensource Sublime Text alternative that I was looking for, thanks for sharing!
- chunk_waffle 3y ago
  Same! and it works on OpenBSD supposedly. I can't wait to try this out this weekend.
frozenport 3y ago
You gotta rename this guy. Imagine calling something PentiumText
- kstrauser 3y ago
  I agree. This has nothing to do with a Mopar muscle car, or a fish.
- stronglikedan 3y ago
  * Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".
jarym 3y ago
This looks very nice - minor question: why are the binaries on sourceforge and not in the Github releases page? Only asking because I generally avoid sourceforge these days since it has a lot of rubbish on it :(
anta40 3y ago
I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate https://github.com/textmate/textmate Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.
shrubble 3y ago
It's extremely fast and responsive. I keep meaning to explore it more...

I kept waiting for the part where they explain why the GPU is important, but no, the "cuda" part is from the Bosnian word for "wonder" or "miracle". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CudaText https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CudaText

Jabihjo 3y ago
čuda

TedDallas 3y ago

Nice to see a cool looking cross platform editor written in Free Pascal with Lazarus. Pascal is a surprisingly expressive language.

_a_a_a_ 3y ago
Ex-Delphi code here, and I have to loudly disagree about Pascal being expressive (at least in the context of more modern languages). But I was, and remain, very fond of it. (to the downvoter: my fave lang is Scala. That's expressive)
- wdb 3y ago
  Do you remember good old TSyntaxMemo?

peter_d_sherman 3y ago

Me thinking, whilst reading the HN title for this article: "CudaText: Cross-platform, open source code editor..." Me: "Meh, yet another open source code editor..." "written in Object Pascal..." Me: (as a long-time Delphi/FreePascal/Object Pascal programmer/afficionado): "OK, NOW I WANT IT!!!" :-) <g> :-)

mike_hock 3y ago
Can you pitch Pascal to me? Why should it be my next language to learn?
- peter_d_sherman 3y ago
  If you tell me what your goals as a programmer are, and tell me what languages you already know and how much experience you have with them (a resume, LinkedIn profile, or GitHub account would help me to understand a lot about you) and explain to me why the current languages you know are insufficient to reach your goals as a programmer -- then perhaps I could pitch Pascal to you, although it would be highly unlikely that you would absolutely need it in today's rich and diverse programming language landscape, and I'd probably wind up recommending a different programming language and/or methodology, relative to your programming goals...
  - mike_hock 3y ago
    This answer is honestly very different from what I would have expected from a language afficionado. If I had this purely utilitarian view on learning, then I most likely wouldn't even consider Pascal in 2023.
    - peter_d_sherman 3y ago
      >Can you pitch Pascal to me? Why should it be my next language to learn? Let us suppose that I knew Ancient Greek. Now, I don't know Ancient Greek -- but let us suppose that I did... And let us suppose that I was asked randomly by someone, someone whom I did not yet know, the following: "Can you pitch Ancient Greek to me? Why should it be my next language to learn?" OK, so if that were the case, basically I'd have more questions for my interlocutor before I issued any recommendations... For example (including but not limited to:) Does my interlocutor like to study ancient languages? Does my interlocutor like to study present day languages? Which present day languages, other than their own native tongue, have they studied? What were the challenges and/or hardships experienced with such studies, if they engaged on them? What specific goals would they have with learning Ancient Greek (just to see if they could do it -- or would they like to read and/or retranslate a specific text in Ancient Greek? Which one? Why?) etc., etc. Also, why is it specifically necessary for me, a random user on HN to pitch Pascal to you? This is the age of Google -- you could simply query Google which such queries as "Pascal benefits", "Pascal advantages", "Pascal sellling points", "why people like Pascal", etc., etc., and I'm sure you'd find much better advice than the advice that I could give you, "out there"... Finally, if you wish to study Pascal, do it. If you don't wish to study Pascal, don't. It's like Yoda said: "Either do -- or do not...". My advice, if I were to have it, and if I were to give it -- would probably not motivate you to take a specific path of action, one way or the other... Finally, to reverse your question: Can you pitch me on why I should pitch Pascal to you, to me? ? Ya see my problem? Or did you not expect that answer, also?

WhereIsTheTruth 3y ago

I wasn't aware of this editor, looks quite nice, might be the opensource Sublime Text alternative that I was looking for, thanks for sharing!

chunk_waffle 3y ago
Same! and it works on OpenBSD supposedly. I can't wait to try this out this weekend.

frozenport 3y ago

You gotta rename this guy. Imagine calling something PentiumText

kstrauser 3y ago
I agree. This has nothing to do with a Mopar muscle car, or a fish.
stronglikedan 3y ago
* Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".

jarym 3y ago

This looks very nice - minor question: why are the binaries on sourceforge and not in the Github releases page? Only asking because I generally avoid sourceforge these days since it has a lot of rubbish on it :(

anta40 3y ago

I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate https://github.com/textmate/textmate Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.

shrubble 3y ago

It's extremely fast and responsive. I keep meaning to explore it more...