rxi, lite's original author, considers lite to be complete, and isn't accepting new feature prs, which is fair enough.
lite-xl was forked to keep the same general principle of simplicity but going a bit further with features.
lite-xl was forked to keep the same general principle of simplicity but going a bit further with features.
I use lite embedded in my own application, and lite-xl as a quick and competent note-taking application (with custom plugin to set filename to date + document header). Both are great to me in their own ways.