Adscriptum

A modern text editor targeted at all Operating Systems, including iOS and Android.

It is built with Carp, a modern LISP that basically works like Adscript would have.

What is a "modern text editor"?

That's a good question. Some folks could think that we were trying to be the next VS Code, but that isn't a particularly good guess. Rather, we are trying to be the next Emacs.

Emacs has a lot of problems and has historically been the wrong choice, but if you look at Doom Emacs now, putting the 200+ MB of RAM usage and horrible performance aside, it is a really good text editor and, even more importantly, a really good "OS".

But Emacs is legacy, a lot of legacy. So instead of crying over Elisp, we are making a better alternative to build cool plugins in, like AlMetSys (short for "Algebraic and geoMetrical System"), a GeoGebra alternative, or yet another Amplissimus.

Running

Install Carp and SDL2, then run the following command:

carp -x main.carp

Apple silicon

On ARM64 macOS the GHC Haskell ecosystem is still a mess as of mid 2021. For that reason you will have to install the AMD64 versions of Stack and Carp, which complicates the linking, because carp tries to use pkg-config. For that reason you will have to get it to use the packages from Homebrew Intel. This can be achieved in two ways: Create a dummy pkg-config pointing to the x86 installation of SDL2:

#!/bin/sh
echo -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lSDL2 -lSDL2_ttf

Then you can weld your PATH a bit to get it working:

PATH="$PWD:$PATH" carp -x main.carp

Or just try using the x86 pkg-config by welding your PATH directly:

PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" carp -x main.carp