Clade is a code editor. By default, its layout is inspired by Smalltalk system browsers.
It’s not feature complete when compared to editors like Visual Studio Code, but it does have features that are missing elsewhere:
- Elastic tabstops for solving vertical alignment on any font, including proportional fonts.
- Explicit folding for collapsing code in a file and to provide structure in its layouts.
Overall, its set of features is small. But maybe its simplicity is a good thing?
Although I enjoy its charm. I rarely ever use it. I suspect that most of my JavaScript projects extensively use JSDoc, providing hover hints and linting for supported editors. It doesn’t seem resistant to formatters, voiding explicit folds when invoked. Basically, being married to the editor I start a project with.
Maybe it can find use where a mainstream code editor doesn’t have language support. This becomes rather apparent with the developer’s own programming language.