Text editor
Standalone text or code editor application; not a plugin and not a full IDE.
Repositories
29
Net stars gained, last 7 days
+1,000
Top-level Tag
Net stars gained each day, last 90 days
Peak days
- 1
Sep 30, 2026 +362 net stars (median day +177)
- martanne/vis+175 (48%)
- zed-industries/zed+77 (21%)
- helix-editor/helix+23 (6%)
A peak day has at least 2 times the net stars of the median day of this chart, and at least 100 more. For each peak day, the list shows the repositories that gained the most net stars that day. It also shows their GitHub releases of that day or the day before (UTC), and their creation date when it was 14 days or less before. These events occur near the same day. They do not show why the stars came.
Largest
Most stars in total now.
- neovim/neovim103K
readme:
Neovim is a project that seeks to aggressively refactor Vim in order to:
description:
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
- atom/atomarchived · 61K
readme:
Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron
readme:
A Kakoune / Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust.
- vim/vim41K
readme:
This editor is very useful for editing programs and other plain text files.
- lapce/lapce39K
description:
Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
description:
binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
- adobe/bracketsarchived · 33K
description:
An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
description:
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
readme:
source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several programming languages and natural languages.
Newest Admissions
Entered the index by the rising rule, newest first.
description:
A small, fast code editor written in Go, with a native GPU-drawn UI (no webview, no Electron)
readme:
Mitos is a modern, batteries-included, modal text editor written in Rust.
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