Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
$1,500 an hour and still using the software my grandma used to make bingo fliers!? Hi HN! I'd like to submit for your consideration Tritium (https://tritium.legal). Tritium aims to bring the power of the integrated development environment (IDE) to corporate lawyers. My name is Drew Miller, and I'm lawyer admitted to the New York bar. I have spent the last 13 years in and out of corporate transactional practice, while building side projects in various languages using vanilla Vim. One day at work, I was asked to implement a legal technology product at my firm. Of course the only…
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Tritium is an integrated development environment built in Rust designed specifically for corporate lawyers. It brings modern IDE features like syntax highlighting, go-to definition, and debugging capabilities to legal work, addressing the gap between the advanced tools available to software developers and the outdated software typically used in legal practice. The tool was created by Drew Miller, a New York-admitted lawyer with 13 years of corporate transactional experience.
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$1,500 an hour and still using the software my grandma used to make bingo fliers!? Hi HN! I'd like to submit for your consideration Tritium (https://tritium.legal). Tritium aims to bring the power of the integrated development environment (IDE) to corporate lawyers. My name is Drew Miller, and I'm lawyer admitted to the New York bar. I have spent the last 13 years in and out of corporate transactional practice, while building side projects in various languages using vanilla Vim. One day at work, I was asked to implement a legal technology product at my firm. Of course the only product available for editing and running programs in a locked-down environment was VS Code and its friends like Puppeteer from Microsoft. I was really blown away at all of the capabilities of go-to definition and out-of-the box syntax highlighting as well as the debugger integration. I made the switch to a full IDE for my side projects immediately. And it hit me: why don't we have this exact same tool in corporate law? Corporate lawyers spent hours upon hours fumbling between various applications and instances of Word and Adobe. There are sub-par differencing products that make `patch` look like the future. They do this while charging you ridiculous rates. I left my practice a few months later to build Tritium. Tritium aims to be the lawyer's VS Code: an all-in-one drafting cockpit that treats a deal's entire document suite as a single, searchable, AI-enhanced workspace while remaining fast, local, and secure. Tritium is implemented in pure Rust. It is cross-platform and I'm excited for the prospect of lawyers running Linux as their daily driver. It leverages a modified version of the super fast egui.rs immediate-mode GUI library. The windows build includes a Rust COM implementation which was probably one of the more technical challenges other than laying out and rendering the text. Download a copy at https://tritium.legal/download or try out a web-only WASM preview here: https://tritium.legal/preview Let me know your thoughts! Your criticisms are the most important. Thank you for the time.
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