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How timely, I just finished going through a tutorial that builds a text editor like kilo from scratch: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html http

How timely, I just finished going through a tutorial that builds a text editor like kilo from scratch: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/index.html Would highly recommend the tutorial as it is really well done.

ok_dad 1y ago
Here’s a second recommendation for that tutorial. It’s the first coding tutorial I’ve finished because it’s really good and I enjoyed building the foundational software program that my craft relies on. I don’t use that editor but it was fun to create it.
stevekemp 1y ago
I remember that tutorial fondly. I played around with kilo when it was released, and eventually made a multi-buffer version with support for scripting with embedded Lua. Of course it was just a fun hack not a serious thing, I continue to do all my real editing with Emacs, but it did mean I got to choose the best project name: https://github.com/skx/kilua https://github.com/skx/kilua
timw4mail 1y ago
This is one of my favorite moderate-level projects for playing with different programming languages. The original in C: https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/kilo https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/kilo Go: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/gilo https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/gilo Rust: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/rs-kilo https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/rs-kilo And the more rusty tutorial version (Hecto): https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/hecto https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/hecto PHP: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo ...and Typescript: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/scroll https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/scroll
- pflenker 1y ago
  Author of hecto here, thank you for mentioning it! I wrote the first version around 5 years ago and I’m happy that people still use it. (I updated it in the meantime)

ok_dad 1y ago

Here’s a second recommendation for that tutorial. It’s the first coding tutorial I’ve finished because it’s really good and I enjoyed building the foundational software program that my craft relies on. I don’t use that editor but it was fun to create it.

stevekemp 1y ago

I remember that tutorial fondly. I played around with kilo when it was released, and eventually made a multi-buffer version with support for scripting with embedded Lua. Of course it was just a fun hack not a serious thing, I continue to do all my real editing with Emacs, but it did mean I got to choose the best project name: https://github.com/skx/kilua https://github.com/skx/kilua

timw4mail 1y ago

This is one of my favorite moderate-level projects for playing with different programming languages. The original in C: https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/kilo https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/kilo Go: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/gilo https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/gilo Rust: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/rs-kilo https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/rs-kilo And the more rusty tutorial version (Hecto): https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/hecto https://git.timshomepage.net/tutorials/hecto PHP: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo ...and Typescript: https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/scroll https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/scroll

pflenker 1y ago
Author of hecto here, thank you for mentioning it! I wrote the first version around 5 years ago and I’m happy that people still use it. (I updated it in the meantime)