From https://lite-xl.com:

A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.

It is recommended that you disable transitions for better performance. Add the following to your init.lua:

config.transitions = false

Note for Windows 8.1

You may need some system DLLs if you are missing a system update, you can find those here: https://github.com/armdevvel/mxe-SHARED/blob/master/resources/WinUCRT.tar.xz