pulsar

A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor (by pulsar-edit)

Pulsar Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to pulsar

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pulsar reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of pulsar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    You may be thinking of Pulsar (<https://pulsar-edit.dev/>)?
  • Python Text Editor
    1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 17 Nov 2023
  • Armed with a big ol' can of Raid: Pulsar 1.110.0 is available now!
    1 project | /r/pulsaredit | 17 Oct 2023
  • Open-Source Washing
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2023
    > VSCodium is not "designed" to be less functional, since it is a project maintained by developers who are unaffiliated with Microsoft.

    In today's (OSS) world, employment or affiliation doesn't matter much. Microsoft can propose what they want and get what they want from the project, at the end of the day. I don't think these independent maintainers have power to say "No" (if a VSCodium developer can chime in here, I'd love to be stand corrected), or they risk VSCodium to be forked to VSCodiumX, by developers who are friendlier to the megacorp which loves Linux.

    Yes, VSCodium is a node to Chromium. "-ium" has a ring akin to "-ish" in today's conjecture. Freemium - Free-ish but not. Chromium - Chrome-ish but not. VSCodium - VSCode-ish, but not. This might be curse in the naming, but it feels like that, at least for me.

    The blog post I linked quotes a tweet which supports what I'm saying, heck even the blog post does a much better job of detailing what I was trying to say here in my previous comments.

    To circle back, the problem with -ium projects are, they are effectively banned from participating in the main ecosystem which drives these projects forward, and to be in "The Ecosystem", you need to use the closed source versions with pervasive data collection and whatnot. Heck, even Google abuses Chromium with "Experiments and Proposals", which they use to politely yet forcefully push the web to the places they want. VSCodium is the same getaway drug and test vessel for Microsoft.

    Lure with Open Source version, trap with closed source version for "Full Benefits" (for the company, because user is the product).

    > You're entitled to your own opinion, but Atom was developed by GitHub...

    Yes & yes.

    > which was acquired by Microsoft.

    Yes.

    > It doesn't help that Atom was discontinued last year, with the final version having been released in March 2022

    However, it's forked as Pulsar [0], which I meant by "current form" in my previous comment. Again, it's MIT licensed, and that's not my favorite, but at least it's not a company editor now.

    Atom's original developers started to build Zed, which is worst of both worlds currently (Open source with a closed backend, plus "All your data belong to us" clause).

    At the end of the day, from my perspective "-ium" projects and their sanitized versions are just open-core versions of the "main tools" developed from them.

    Just because these versions somehow work, and have a permissive license doesn't make them open source in the meta sense. Pedantically they are open source software, yes, but they are just the "Open Core" or Demo/Shareware versions of the tools which companies use to strange to ecosystems.

    This is just enshittification of open source in my eyes.

    More power to you if you're happy with the -ium tools, but I'd rather use truly free software (Like Eclipse), or use completely honest closed source software (like BBEdit), instead of using tools designed to look like open source but not.

    [0]: https://pulsar-edit.dev/

  • Chime – Capable. Focused. Fast. An open source editor for macOS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    I thought spiritual successor to Atom is Pulsar. https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar
  • Help: Atom Alternatives/Copy-Pasting Scripts
    1 project | /r/tabletopsimulator | 6 Jul 2023
    Pulsar has a TTS package, for those who were very comfortable in Atom.
  • Libre-friendly IDEs?
    1 project | /r/linux | 10 Jun 2023
    In addition to the already mentioned Emacs, I would check Pulsar, the Atom successor.
  • Im new to lua, what are the best Lua IDE?
    1 project | /r/lua | 29 May 2023
    Community-led fork of Atom
  • Clarification question
    3 projects | /r/pulsaredit | 29 May 2023
    Also, don't worry - we understand that there's documentation lacking on the "extend Pulsar" part and on package creation, but we're working on it. We're also working on better ways to test, document, and create packages (and grammars - see, for example, how we usually tested grammars in the past and how we're migrating to for example), so it's just a matter of time, really.
  • Best FOSS text editor like atom?
    1 project | /r/opensource | 19 May 2023
    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.
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