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λiquid vs TextMate: What are the differences?
Developers describe λiquid as "Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure". Clojure Text Editor, for editing clojure code and markdown. Written entirely in Clojure with inspiration from Emacs and Vim. On the other hand, TextMate is detailed as "The Missing Editor for Mac OS X". TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
λiquid and TextMate belong to "Text Editor" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by λiquid are:
- Fluidable - Embed your code into λiquid or λiquid into your code
- Dependency free - Everything is pure Clojure
- Translatable - Tiny core, simple model, no tricks
On the other hand, TextMate provides the following key features:
- Ability to Search and Replace in a Project
- Auto-Indent for Common Actions Like Pasting Text
- Auto-Pairing of Brackets and Other Characters
λiquid is an open source tool with 704 GitHub stars and 26 GitHub forks. Here's a link to λiquid's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of λiquid
Pros of TextMate
- Syntax highlighting17
- Javascript5
- PHP Developer5
- Native UI4
- jQuery developer4
- Ruby3
- Bundles2
- Snippets2
- MacOS native2
- Commands2
- Low Energy Usage2
- Starts fast2
- Keyboard shortcuts2
- Open Source2
- Clean ui2