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Re:Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua by aethy on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:14PM (#33170498)
No; rxi wrote a rendering cache infront of the renderer. It doesn't require a widget library for this reason; it's able to efficiently implement an immediate renderer. Simplifies the codebase a lot.
Re:Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua by x13pixels on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:14PM (#33171944)
If you are interested, the write up on the cached software renderer used in Lite is written up here: https://rxi.github.io/cached_software_rendering.html