Simple Text - A GPU-accelerated, cross-platform text editor

Progress Chart

Feature	macOS	Linux	Windows
Text System	✅ (Core Text)	✅ (Pango)	✅ (DirectWrite)
Window creation	✅ (Cocoa)	✅ (GTK 4)	✅ (Win32)
OpenGL context	✅	✅	✅
Keyboard/mouse input	✅	✅	✅
Tabs	✅	✅	✅
Popups/Dialogs	🚧	🚧	🚧

Dependencies

This project uses the GN meta-build system. Binaries are available here.

macOS

brew install ninja llvm

Fedora

dnf install gn ninja-build clang llvm lld

Building

gn gen out/debug
ninja -C out/debug

# (Optional) Add LSP support for your editor. 
ninja -C out/debug -t compdb cc cxx objc objcxx > compile_commands.json

Why Simple Text?

Note

These are features that are important from my point of view!
Someone who appreciates other features (e.g., AI integration, plugins) would have a different chart.

Editor	GUI?	Native GUI?	Cross-platform?	Fast?	Open source?	Tree-sitter support?	LSP support?	Simple codebase?	Notes
Simple Text	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sublime Text	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	N/A	Very nearly perfect!
Visual Studio Code	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	❌
Zed	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	Contains a lot of arguably unnecessary features, such as AI and voice chat
Lapce	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	GUI doesn't feel super polished, at least on macOS (e.g., blurry fonts)
Neovim	❌	N/A	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌