Echidna vs sapling

Echidna

[WIP] A friendlier code editor than your current one. (by waylovely-project)

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sapling

A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text. (by kneasle)

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Echidna		sapling
	Project
1	Mentions	7
14	Stars	705
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	3.7
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Echidna

Posts with mentions or reviews of Echidna. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-24.

Your favorite GNOME (or other gtk/libadwaita) apps
3 projects | /r/gnome | 24 Mar 2022

Echidna aim to be just that, but it is still far from being usable yet.

sapling

Posts with mentions or reviews of sapling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.

Sapling: A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024
Emacs Is Not Enough
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2023

Basically, when you say 'structural editing', do you mean making an AST for every kind of input and having a modal command language that permits traversal and editing of that AST. Like what sapling https://github.com/kneasle/sapling is attempting to do ?
Why are we storing source code in plaintext?
2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 13 Apr 2021

For example, you can edit the AST directly: https://github.com/kneasle/sapling
Sapling livestream
1 project | /r/rust | 3 Apr 2021
Rust coding livestream - building Sapling, a better code editor
1 project | /r/rust | 27 Mar 2021

Livestream link here: https://youtu.be/dJtLEGOFYC0 Code here: https://github.com/kneasle/sapling
Show HN: Experimental Semantic Code Explorer
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2021

There's a text editor being developed that edits code based on nodes of its AST representation - https://github.com/kneasle/sapling

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Echidna and sapling you can also consider the following projects:

done - The ultimate task management solution for seamless organization and efficiency.

rustpad - Efficient and minimal collaborative code editor, self-hosted, no database required

silver_editor - A small editor for quicksilver and Mergui

xedel - Keyboard-centric modal code editor, built with nodejs and GTK

amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.

lynx - A basic text editor in Rust.

kibi - A text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

Vulkan-ValidationLayers - Vulkan Validation Layers (VVL)

gtoolkit - Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through experiences tailored for each problem.

playground - Treesitter playground integrated into Neovim

tree-sitter - An incremental parsing system for programming tools