Ned: ImGui Text Editor with GL Shaders

I do find this an interesting project. I don't think it will serve my purpose as i'm already comfortable with my chosen text editor.

I think many developers/programmers have already picked their poison - what advantages would switching to Ned have? Would newcommers try it.. or resort to VSCode, NeoVim, etc.

Not suggesting it's wrong or a waste of time. Certainly not! I am always happy to see various alternatives out there in various sections of computing... even the likes of GNU Hurd still keeping itself going!

There has been projects where I've been very tempted to use IMGUI as it is an easy/quick approach than building a website or commonly known GUI managers. (WPF, Qt, Gtk, etc)

The problem is - these projects are not about creating text editors, but some GUI Windows (or Windows) that solves problems with check boxes, buttons, and text areas. The problem is ALWAYS when the customers says "Ooh.. it would be good if we can do this!" which, for example, is supporting a Map.. like Gmaps.. which can be supported on the web or on traditional UIs easily.

Do I have the time to support a new feature? Unfortunately.. I dont! I end up using the tools or libraries that DO have these features available. In this example, I can just put together a website using Leafletjs.

Long story short.. as much as I would love to use an Immediate Mode UI to solve a problem... it sounds like a great idea... until it isn't.

Tried it on Windows on a powerful workstation. Felt sluggish. The framerate seems to be capped as 60Hz. My monitor is running at 240Hz. Removing the framerate limit could help.

I'd rather run my editor of choice in a terminal with shader effects like these (bloom, burnin, scanlines, curvature). Cool Retro Term does these effects very well, but it's also not a very good terminal.

The embed ned is awesome. Will make ImGui engine editors that much more robust. Fantastic.

I’m going to tinker with this.

I'm always in the looking for an alternative to vscodium. This one is surprisingly feature complete for something meant to embed in 3D renderers. I'd like to see what people do with it.

From the video looks like it's already usable, with Lua or some other scripting language it could be a good alternative to vim or helix.

Cool project and I really do not want to tell people what to do with their hobby projects, but this project would have also been very cool (and likely far more used) as a neovim frontend.

Whenever I see someone putting transparency on the background of their text editor I immediately know we have absolutely nothing in common.