OlaProeis/Ferrite
A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #487 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 17%).
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 143 days ago, with 23 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #61 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 1, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files with native, responsive UI built in Rust using egui.
- Delivers a cross-platform, resource-efficient editing experience with advanced features like WYSIWYG Markdown, multi-format support, and integrated MermaidJS diagram rendering.
- Use for writing and previewing Markdown documents with live WYSIWYG editing and syntax highlighting for technical writers and content creators.
- Use for editing and navigating complex JSON, YAML, or TOML configuration files with tree viewers and inline editing for developers and sysadmins.
- Use for managing terminal workflows inside the editor with integrated multi-pane terminal support and workspace session persistence for power users and DevOps engineers.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
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From the README
getferrite.dev — Official website with downloads, features, and documentation
A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.
⚠️ Platform Note: Ferrite is developed and tested on Windows and Linux. macOS support is experimental. If you encounter issues, please report them.
This project is 100% AI-generated code. All Rust code, documentation, and configuration was written by Claude (Anthropic) via Cursor with MCP tools.
✨ v0.2.7 (in progress): Welcome page for first-launch configuration (theme, language, editor prefs). Wikilinks and backlinks panel. GitHub-style callouts. Image rendering in preview. Flowchart modular refactor. Multiple scrollbar and word-wrap crash fixes. See CHANGELOG.md for full details.
📦 v0.2.6 Highlights: New Custom Editor Engine with virtual scrolling (80MB file uses ~80MB RAM), Multi-Cursor Editing, Code Folding, IME/CJK input improvements.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
93+10
Open issues
44+20
Compared with peers in Mobile
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tester-army/e2e | 10.8K | +2.7K | 75 | today |
| flutter/flutter | 180.2K | +1.1K | 45 | — |
| cjpais/Handy | 33.6K | +718 | 75 | 9 days ago |
| tauri-apps/tauri | 111.9K | +141 | 75 | today |
| XiaoYouChR/Ghost-Downloader-3 | 9.8K | +141 | 75 | 48 days ago |
| OlaProeis/Ferrite | 1.8K | +0 | 75 | 143 days ago |
| Category median | 33.6K | +718 | 75 | — |
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