Rune vs textarea.my
Rune and textarea.my are both code editors software. Rune is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.5k GitHub stars. Textarea.my is open source under MIT, with 2.5k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Rune when
- You want one native app for editing and terminals that works with coding agents and lets you reach your workstation from a laptop.
- Pick textarea.my when
- You want to jot down or share a short note instantly with no account and no server storing it.
Side by side
A GPU-accelerated native IDE and terminal multiplexer written in Go, with language intelligence, plugins, a built-in agent and encrypted peer-to-peer access between your machines.
A minimal browser text editor that compresses your text into the page's URL hash, so a note is saved and shared by copying the link.
Under three months old, GPL-3.0, and the install is a curl-to-shell script that keeps itself updated.
Long texts make very long URLs, and anyone who gets the link can read the note.
Experimental
Usable
Desktop app
Cloud service
Go and Starlark
HTML and JavaScript
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
1.5k GitHub stars
2.5k GitHub stars
New: started 1 month ago, latest release v1.3.4.
Young: started 10 months ago, latest release v1.0.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-06 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.