Hyper
A terminal built with web technologies and customized through themes and extensions.GetMIT
Pulsar
A community-led text and code editor continuing the extensible Atom experience.
MIT · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- pulsar-edit
- Verified
- 2026
About Pulsar
Pulsar continues the Atom editor with a community-maintained application and package ecosystem. It offers a flexible workspace for editing source code and text.
Packages and themes can tailor the editor to different languages and habits. Upstream releases include separate macOS builds for Intel and Apple Silicon.
Information
- Source code
- pulsar-edit/pulsar
- License
- MIT
- Website
- pulsar-edit.dev
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Developer tools
- Evidence checked
- Tags
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar
- github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar/blob/master/LICENSE.md
- github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar/releases
- icon.png: Pulsar contributors. MIT; project trademarks retained.
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