Hyper-hackable text editor forked from Atom and built on Electron
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About Pulsar
Pulsar is a hyper-hackable text editor forked from Atom and built on Electron. It continues the Atom project after its sunset, keeping the editor open and deeply customizable while staying approachable with its default configuration.
The editor is designed to be reshaped to fit your workflow, letting you adapt its interface and behavior down to fine details. As an Electron app, it runs as a familiar desktop editor on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Pulsar is developed as Pulsar Edit by a community of contributors rather than a single vendor. It is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed editor you install and run locally, not a hosted service.
Key features
- Hyper-hackable, deeply customizable editor
- Adapts interface and behavior to your workflow
- Built on Electron for desktop use
- Continues the Atom editor after its sunset
Details
- First released
- 2022
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS · Linux
- Deployment
- self-hostable
- Framework
- Electron
- License
- MIT
- Governance
- Community-led fork of Atom
