The next generation code editor for macOS ✏️ Open source, free forever. Build with us at github.com/CodeEditApp
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📣 Calling all passionate #Swift devs! We invite you to shape the future of code editing. Join us in contributing to a free and #OpenSource project to build a native #CodeEditor that unleashes the power of the Mac and complements Xcode.
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We just launched our website, check it out! Preview release to follow so stay tuned. 👀 codeedit.app
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Calling all #Swift devs that love macOS! 📣
Join us in building a code editor like no other, unlocking the full power of your Mac. We need you to bring this vision to life. Together let's make history and build the editor we’ve all been dreaming of! 🤩
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We have a new icon! 😍 Let us know what you think.
Credit goes to @bonumdesign and @austincondiff. 🎨
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Announcing our latest release, v0.1.0! 🎉
This release comes packed with enhancements and fixes to the editor, themes, settings, source control, and search.
While there is still much to do, a lot has gone into improving the core editing experience.
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We have a shiny new 'About CodeEdit' window! ✨
Credits go to @austincondiff @WouterHennen @lukeeep_
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Want to see CodeEdit release sooner? Consider contributing, even for just a few minutes per week. This is a community effort and we need talented devs like you to make this possible. Please share, see you on GitHub! 👨💻
github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeE…
#oss #foss #swift #buildinpublic
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We are pleased to announce that we have just reached 20,000 stars on @GitHub! 🌟
We're incredibly thankful for our fantastic community for all the support and we are excited for what the future holds for CodeEdit! 🚀
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Exciting progress is being made behind-the-scenes on LSP integration which enables autocompletion, code navigation, refactoring, semantic syntax highlighting, code folding, and more.
Check out @abem_dev’s great work on the autocompletion menu.
Stay tuned for more updates! 📡
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In the next version of CodeEdit ✨
Users will be able to set editor overscroll. 📜 This setting will default to medium.
Work by @abem_dev 👨💻
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Today's release v0.0.3-alpha.35 includes:
➡️ Ventura-style Settings
➡️ improved file inspector
➡️ debug area navigation
➡️ terminal tabs
➡️ bracket pair highlighting
➡️ beginnings of an extension API
Note: Our bundle ID changed so you may see a warning that indicates this.
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In the next version of CodeEdit...
Users can now select multiple items in the project navigator and take action on all of them at once thanks to the great work by @LeonardoXUI!
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Exciting news: CodeEdit now has its first full-time contributor! 🚀
Thanks to the support of our amazing sponsors (you know who you are ❤️), we’ve brought on Khan — one of our top contributors — to focus full-time on accelerating development.
This is a big moment for the project, and it’s only possible because of you. Your support is fueling real progress.
That said, we only have a small window to make the most of this.
Now’s the perfect time to jump in:
💙 Become a sponsor to extend our runway
🧠 Join our Discord & weekly meetups
💻 Contribute code and help us move even faster
We’re picking up speed — come be part of it.
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We’ve published new releases to our Swift text view package! Versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 include a drastically improved drag-and-drop experience, new APIs for editing selections, performance improvements, and an important fix for a text layout bug.
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Introducing editor splitting! 🗒️🪓🗒️
Take it for a spin today in our latest alpha preview release and let us know what you think. Big shoutout goes to @WouterHennen for getting this feature out the door!
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In the next version of CodeEdit...
The source editor Find Panel gets Replace and Replace All functionality with the ability to toggle Match Case and Wrap Around (when navigating matches).
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Building CodeEdit has been an incredible journey, and it’s all thanks to our amazing open-source community. As we look ahead to 2025, we’re excited to share the progress we've made in 2024 and what’s next! 🚀
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In the next version of CodeEdit…
Find in editor is working with our custom find panel. Results are highlighted while typing, and are automatically selected when moving to the editor.
We’ll continue to expand on this in the future, including features like find and replace.
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Announcing our latest release, v0.2.0🎉
This release is long in the making and includes numerous bug fixes. We've laid the groundwork for LSP servers, added support for the macOS system cursor, added an activity viewer, and improved editor performance.
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We had a very productive week! Thanks for everyones hard work. Everyone who contributes gets us a little more closer to release. 🙌
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In the next version of CodeEdit...
Users can create files using their clipboard contents in the project navigator 🎉
Thanks to Syrux64 on GitHub for the contribution!
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In the next version of CodeEdit...
We're introducing a minimap for our editor! The minimap shows a high-level summary of the editors contents, allowing for quick navigation and better understanding of the entire file. Drag the visible area to jump quickly around your file.
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Improved support for symbolic links, allowing users to navigate contents of linked directories in the project navigator
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Filtering the project navigator is now functional! Thanks to @LeonardoXUI, you can now filter files in the navigator by name to quickly find what you need.
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In the next version of CodeEdit ✨
Users will be able to drag external files into individual editors within CodeEdit to open them there.
Work by @austincondiff
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A message about whats next from @thecoolwinter 💬
Exciting news: CodeEdit now has its first full-time contributor! 🚀
Thanks to the support of our amazing sponsors (you know who you are ❤️), we’ve brought on Khan — one of our top contributors — to focus full-time on accelerating development.
This is a big moment for the project, and it’s only possible because of you. Your support is fueling real progress.
That said, we only have a small window to make the most of this.
Now’s the perfect time to jump in:
💙 Become a sponsor to extend our runway
🧠 Join our Discord & weekly meetups
💻 Contribute code and help us move even faster
We’re picking up speed — come be part of it.
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In the next version of CodeEdit...
The source editor Find Panel gets a Find Method picker. Options include: Contains, Matches Word, Starts With, Ends With, and Regular Expression. This work wraps up in-editor find! 🔎📝
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To kick off our new blog, we've written about why we started building CodeEdit in the first place and how it has the potential to change the game in how developers write code. Expect more project updates and dev tips very soon! 📝
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Alpha Release 0.0.3 (37) is here! 🎉🚀
It's been a while since we've last released, so we have a lot for you in this one. Some things include...
✨ Updated product icon
✨ New faster source editor and text view
✨ Source control navigator
✨ Project indexing
✨ Faster project search
✨ Real-time cursor location in status bar
✨ Path bar picker design update
✨ Focus single editor
✨ Unsaved file indicator
✨ Settings search
🐞 Numerous fixes to overall app stability
It is still in alpha so we know it isn't perfect however we'd love to hear your feedback! 📣
github.com/CodeEditApp/CodeE…
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Indenting and unindenting lines has been implemented in the editor! The shortcuts ⌘] and ⌘[ indent and unindent lines respectively. S/O @activecoding for the implementation
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Our terminal pane gets some upgrades:
- Terminal state is now kept when tabbing away from terminals.
- A longstanding font rendering bug has been fixed.
- Clearing the terminal is now more consistent with other terminal emulators.
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We've published a new release of our Swift text view package!
Versions 0.10.0-0.10.1 introduce a new set of APIs for customizing text layout behavior. Devs can now provide custom rendering, line breaking, and positioning information for custom layouts.
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We started this project earlier this past year and are incredibly happy with the progress that we’ve made so far. Looking forward to all the great things that are in store for this next year. Happy new year and best wishes to all, those you love, and the future of CodeEdit! 🥂🎉
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We've published new releases of our Swift text view package! Versions 0.8.0-0.8.2 improve word detection when selecting text, improve mouse drag selection, fix undo grouping, improve the API for emphasizing text, and add overscroll in the text view.
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Announcing our latest release v0.3.3! 🎉
This version introduces project navigator filtering and multiple file selection, source control settings. Theme management now supports fuzzy search for easier discovery, and the editor supports indenting and unindenting selected lines.
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We just published a new release for our text view package! v0.7.8 adds a new emphasis API for emphasizing text in a document, and adds more flexibility for customizing text and selection edge insets.
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Calling all Extension developers everywhere of any editor. 📣 We are planning out our Extensions API and we need some feedback. Let your voice be heard! 🎤
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Happy one-year anniversary! 🎉 One year ago we started the CodeEdit repository with only ideas and a design concept . It's truly impressive how far we were able to get in a years time and most importantly what our incredible community has grown to be. Here's to the next year! 🥂
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Quick shoutout to @lukeeep_, @JohnathanBaird2, and @WouterHennen for all the hard work this week. There are some great efforts going on with release automation, CLI tools, and extensions. Get involved to be part of the next big thing in code editing!
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Running tasks! Basic support for defining and running tasks in a shell. Tasks identify if they've failed or succeeded based on the exit code, and are defined in a JSON file.
Big ups to @activecoding for getting this started!
ALT CodeEdit workspace showing the output of a task that has been run. It also shows an example task definition file with multiple tasks, and those same tasks in a dropdown menu from the activity bar.
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Read about how we wrote our new fuzzy search algorithm by @activecoding! 🔎
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Shoutout to @linanashi and @lukeeep_ for their awesome work on the History Inspector! We have the greatest contributors! 👏
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Introducing CodeEdit v0.3.0 🚀
What's new:
🔧 Run tasks and monitor status/output
💻 Enhanced source control integration for a smoother dev experience
Take it for a spin and let us know what you think! 👇
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Spotlighting @MediaMateApp for macOS! 🌟 Check it out for iOS-style volume control created by one of our maintainers, @WouterHennen whose contributions have been invaluable. Want us to feature your app? Contribute to CodeEdit and show us what you've got!
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We’re excited to share a video from our newest contributor, @s1mn, who shows us his journey to fixing a bug in CodeEdit! 🍿 It's a perfect guide for anyone looking to get started with our project. #Swift #OpenSource #BuidInPublic piped.video/9EOzGq4oDhg?si=jXpd…
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Huge shoutout to @proxyman_app for sponsoring the project! 🎉
Thank you for the support, anything helps to get us closer to our Beta release! 😉
💖 We're sponsoring @CodeEditApp as we appreciate all native high-quality macOS apps.
Hope it can boost the development speed. Looking forward to checking the Beta soon 🎉
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We have some exciting new issues we are working on now. These two are fresh and have yet to be claimed if you'd like to jump in and contribute!
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We are building a code editor view for CodeEdit based on tree-sitter in #Swift. Special thanks to @maxbrunsfeld, @krzyzanowskim, and @mattie for helping us get halfway there. Contributors welcome, look for the help wanted label!
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We've published a new release of our Swift text view package!
Versions 0.11.2-0.11.3 introduces Invisible Characters, Column Selection, improves undo/redo with drag and drop, improves our attachments API, fixes an outstanding cursor bug, and more!
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We are currently considering window tabs and multi-folder workspaces for future planning and want to better understand your current use so we can build a tool that best fits your needs. Your input is critical. Join us in this exploration! 🧐 Questions are to follow.
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🚧 Quick progress update: Here’s what’s left to finish Phase 1 which focuses on the core editor experience:
🏃♂️ Find & Replace (final PR out – @austincondiff)
🏃♂️ Code Folding (almost done – @thecoolwinter)
📋 Snippets
📋 Sticky Headers (Code Structure)
📋 Move lines up/down with ⌘⌥[ and ⌘⌥]
📋 Select next instance with ⌘⌥E
📋 Persistent source editor state
📋 Indent wrapped lines
📋 Show invisible characters
📋 Restore selection and scroll on undo/redo
We’re almost there! Any help is appreciated 🙌
💬 Got suggestions? Drop them below.
🗺️ Follow the roadmap: github.com/orgs/CodeEditApp/…
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Announcing our latest release v0.3.1!🎉
This update adds the ability to toggle multi-line comments, terminal pane improvements, shift-click to modify the current selection, further improved QuickLook support, and misc bug fixes.
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Quick update! We're working hard to deliver the native code editor you've been waiting for. Our current focus is to perfect the core experience for a solid foundation. Stay tuned for more updates to #CodeEdit! Want to speed things up? Join us as a contributor! 🚀
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Shift-Click to modify the current selection has been implemented in our editor
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Announcing our latest release v0.3.4!🎉
This version includes our new find-in-editor panel, text selection improvements, undo/redo fixes, drag and drop to open files, an editor overscroll setting, file navigator refinements, and many more bug fixes!
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We continue to be impressed by the innovation and progress within the our community. A huge thanks goes to our contributors for their unparalleled excellence.
We’d like to invite passionate visionaries seeking to refine their craft in new ways to help transcend corporate limits and redefine what’s possible. Join us in building an editor set to shape the future, helping fellow developers stay more connected to the code they are writing. 👨🏻💻
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Feeling saucy? 🍕 We thought so!
To get ready for @DeepDishSwift, we are launching a cheesy challenge—even if you aren't able to join us in Chicago.
Ship a PR, get a pizza. Simple as that!
Claim your free pizza today! 🍽️ codeedit.app/pizza
#WillCodeForPizza
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Announcing our latest release v0.3.2!🎉
This update is a stability and bug fix update. Included are fixes for viewing symlink directories, using filenames with spaces in git, autosave stability, and a few UI enhancements.
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Join us for our weekly meetups to review progress, discuss project goals, and request features. 👨💻🚀 Looking forward to seeing you there! 👀
📆 Saturdays @ 3pm UTC
➡️ discord.gg/ffxAtxWNe5
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Our new product icon will be featured in the upcoming macOS App Icon Book! We are super excited and can’t wait to get our hands on this “icon”ic book from @flarup! Pre-order it here...
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In the next version of CodeEdit
Our source editor now has support for commenting multiple lines with ⌘/. This feature is language dependent, so HTML comments will appear differently from Swift, Javascript, etc depending on the detected language.
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If you were to develop an extension for CodeEdit, would you rather use...
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If you do this, you may lose work if any change is made inadvertently during the process. Is there any room for improvement here? What might a feature look like to provide a better alternative? Time Machine for code possibly? 🤔
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Big shoutout to @TablePlus for joining others in for sponsoring our project! Go check out their amazing database management client. Like CodeEdit, it’s native so you can count on top performance and a more familiar experience. See for yourself!
tableplus.com/
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We'll be starting up a weekly meetup held every Saturday @ 5pm UTC to discuss current and future development of CodeEdit. Come and let your voice be heard! 📣
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Starting a 🔴LIVE session now hosted by @abem_dev. Join us as we explore LSP integration which enables things like code completion.
#buildinpublic
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We love seeing videos like this one from @Ipenywis! 🍿😍
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Join us to discuss the latest CodeEdit development efforts and plan features. See you there!
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We are currently exploring UX around how windows respond to the lifecycle of a file/project. Feel free to join in the discussion. We really appreciate your feedback! 💬 github.com/orgs/CodeEditApp/…
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Trying to align with the macOS design pattern.
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Looks like we’re in good company! Loving the macOS vibes. 😍
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What do you like and dislike most about Xcode? 🤔 Help us to learn from these strengths and pain-points so we can make CodeEdit that much better!
#iosdev #xcode #swiftlang
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Join us for our weekly meetup starting today at 3 PM UTC! We’ll be discussing recent contributions, and plans looking forward as we continue to work towards our mission!
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ALT Weekly meetup graphic, time is Saturdays at 3 PM UTC
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Join us for our weekly meetup starting soon at 3 PM UTC where we will discuss plans for our next release. We look forward to your input!
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Read more about it here... 👀
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Shoutout goes to @devutils_app developed by @tdinh_me for sponsoring us. 💝 If you haven’t already, check out their incredibly useful app!
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Get ready to shape the future of text editing! 🚀Join us Saturday @ 3pm UTC for an exciting discussion about the latest developments in CodeEdit. 📝 Your voice matters – see you there! 👋
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#OpenSource #OSS #FOSS #BuildInPublic #SwiftUI
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Shout out to @panascais for becoming our first sponsor! Check them out here. Thank you so much for your sponsorship and continued support. 🙏
panascais.net/
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Get it while it's hot 🔥
v0.2.1 includes a keyWindow bug fix and enables previews for files other than images and PDFs.
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Join us @ 3pm UTC to discuss the latest in CodeEdit✏️ development. 🏗️ See you there! 👀
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Join us Saturday at 3pm UTC for a discussion around the current state of development for CodeEdit. 🏗️ Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts to help shape it's future! 📝 See you there! 👀
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Happy #Hacktoberfest! 🧑💻 We've made a special view in our project to make it easy to pick out issues with the hacktoberfest label. We look forward to seeing your awesome PRs!
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Please welcome our newest project maintainer @EstebanBorai! 👋
Just a quick reminder, this is an open source project so we rely on our great community for progression. The more help we can get, the faster we reach a production launch! All are welcome to join!
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Join us at 3pm UTC to discuss the latest in CodeEdit development! See you there! 👀
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These are just a few things you can do with CodeEdit v0.3.0. We look forward to hearing your feedback and as always, we welcome your contribution if you want to be part of this new movement in advancing the way we write code! 👨💻
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Join us at 3pm UTC to discuss the latest in CodeEdit development! We will also have a live coding session with @austincondiff who will write a demo @raycastapp extension in an ongoing conversation about our own extension API. See you there! 👀
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Let's just say we haven't lost faith in humanity quite yet. 😏 To all those that contribute to #OSS, we solute you! 🫡
If you've lost faith in humanity, just remember there are countless people out there contributing to open source projects for absolutely zero pay 🥹
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Be sure to register for #Hacktoberfest. Our project is ready to go! 👨💻
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Fantastic work from @activecoding was made to speed up project search! 🔍💨 #scaryfast
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Ever wondered how code editors swiftly unearth keywords and regex patterns in massive codebases within milliseconds? Check out what we did at @CodeEditApp! We're close to merging another PR that takes our search speed to even greater heights! 👀🚀
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What should the trash button in our terminal do. Should it...
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Likewise, the new pull sheet allows developers to select a remote and branch along with rebasing local changes onto upstream changes.
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Join us Saturdays @ 3:00 UTC for our weekly meetups! It's a great opportunity to discuss ongoing projects, exchange thoughts and feedback, and align on goals and priorities. Be a part of shaping CodeEdit's future. Let's innovate together! 💪
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A special thanks goes to @vercel, @GitBookIO, and @MacStadium for your sponsorships in our #foss project. It gives us great pleasure to see organizations like these supporting the community! 💝
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Join us Saturday @ 3:00 PM UTC to review the latest developments for our project. We look forward to seeing you there! 👀
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