LightLine

A fast, lightweight code editor for Windows, written in Rust.

LightLine is a code editor that feels like VS Code but starts fast and stays light. It’s a single portable .exe: no installer, no Electron, no admin rights. It draws its own window straight through Windows, so it uses little memory and keeps typing and scrolling smooth: in our tests it starts in about a tenth of a second, a keystroke reaches the screen in about 3 ms, and LightLine idling in the background runs no timers and does no work of its own: it wakes only when Windows or another program asks it something. New features are measured so they don’t slow it down: v0.10.0 is as fast as v0.9.0 (numbers).

Features

• Menu bar: File, Edit, Selection, View, Go, Run, Terminal and Help menus in the title bar, as in VS Code, with each item’s shortcut beside it. Alt and a letter opens a menu from the keyboard; in a narrow window they fold into one button.
• Smart editing: syntax colors, colored bracket pairs, code folding, an optional minimap, find and replace in a file or across the project (with…