On: Lite: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

[encryptluks2]

This appears to be unmaintained.

[dflock → encryptluks2]

Maintained & improved fork: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl

[LeifCarrotson → encryptluks2]

So? It's a text editor. It's not like it's dependent on continued uptime of cloud services to function...

[pabs3 → LeifCarrotson]

It is common for build time or runtime dependencies to change in incompatible ways meaning eventually you might not even be able to run it or even built it from source.

[blondin → pabs3]

a dependency change is no longer an author's problem when they have pinned down versions.

[pabs3 → blondin]

Pinning can be problematic since it blocks security updates.

[xaduha → LeifCarrotson]

> It's a text editor.

It's a code editor. Without Language Server support.

EDIT: fork does support it though https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugins, proving the point

[romeoblade → LeifCarrotson]

Even text editors can have security vulnerabilities that allow privilege escalation. Especially if they support plugins which this does.

To each their own, but I wouldn't risk it.