Fresh

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A terminal text editor with familiar keybindings, mouse support and IDE features such as LSP, with no configuration needed.

Adopt it when

You want IDE-style editing in the terminal without learning Vim or Emacs keys and accept a young tool.

Watch out

It is under two years old and pre-1.0, so stability and features are still settling.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Command line

Built with

Rust and TypeScript

How established

Young: started 22 months ago, latest release v0.5.7.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Fresh → Rust → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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