When comparing Synwrite vs Lime, the Slant community recommends Synwrite for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” Synwrite is ranked 65th while Lime is ranked 80th. The most important reason people chose Synwrite is:
Synwrite has a clean and beautiful UI.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Clean interface
Synwrite has a clean and beautiful UI.
Pro Small size and portable
Synwrite's small size makes it very portable and usable even from a USB flash drive.
Pro Built-in FTP support
Built-in support for FTP allows the user to transfer and exchange files between different computers and accounts.
Pro Free and open source
Lime is open source and free to use, unlike Sublime.
Pro Almost as good as Sublime Text
Lime is very useful, powerful, and clean. It has a sleek UI (as compared to Sublime) but is generally quite similar, if not better in some respects, than Sublime Text.
Cons
Con Windows only
Synwrite is only available for Windows and it's not cross-platform.
Con Doesn't have an installer
You need to build Lime from source yourself, which may be out of many people's skill level.