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Pulsar Editor

A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.

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    2023-04-05

Features & Specs

  1. Open Source

    Pulsar Editor is open source, allowing developers to contribute, modify, and customize the editor according to their needs.

  2. Extensible

    The editor supports a wide range of plugins and packages, enabling users to extend its functionality to suit various development workflows.

  3. Cross-Platform

    Pulsar Editor runs on major operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux, providing a consistent experience across different platforms.

  4. Community Support

    Pulsar Editor has a growing community that can help with troubleshooting, plugins, and development advice.

  5. Familiar Interface

    It offers an interface that is intuitive for users familiar with Atom, making it easy to transition for existing Atom users.

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  • I still like Sublime Text in 2025
    Nobody mentionned Pulsar (https://pulsar-edit.dev/) which is the community maintained Atom since its sunsetting (Dec 2022). Atom was created by Nathan Sobo, who is now working on Zed (https://zed.dev/). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • Zed on Linux Is Here
    The Atom editor is being maintained as a fork: Pulsar https://pulsar-edit.dev Zed is co-founded by one (or more?) original developer of Atom. So, it's a successor in a sense that it is a new project by the same author. Atom was developed at GitHub, and GitHub Inc remains the owner of the original Atom project. From their perspective the successor of Atom is VSCode - developed by their parent company, - despite the... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
  • Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
    You may be thinking of Pulsar ()? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • Help: Atom Alternatives/Copy-Pasting Scripts
    Pulsar has a TTS package, for those who were very comfortable in Atom. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Libre-friendly IDEs?
    In addition to the already mentioned Emacs, I would check Pulsar, the Atom successor. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Best FOSS text editor like atom?
    Our website is https://pulsar-edit.dev/, feel free to check out or Discord server if you want to come and say hi or have any questions - we are a friendly bunch. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Noobie question - what do I use to write code?
    Https://pulsar-edit.dev/ - basically the spiritual successor to Atom. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Ask HN: Design of Emacs type extensible editor based on electron?
    I'm surprised that nobody here mentioned Atom [1]. IIUC, Atom was designed to be hackable like Emacs. A successor to Atom is Pulsar [2]. [1] https://github.com/atom/atom. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
  • Should I use supercollider with Atom?
    FYI, there is a community fork of Atom called Pulsar which may be worth looking into, if a particular plugin was a favorite. I remember Julia had a plugin for Atom which pretty much turned it into a Julia IDE. There were similar projects for Tidal Cycles too. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Habit Tracker Website | HTML & CSS
    Hydrogen is known to work (with some slight problems to install for some) on our Pulsar fork, if you want to check: https://pulsar-edit.dev/. Source: about 2 years ago

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