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Anvil piqued my interest especially because it provides a REST API to interact with it opening the door to writing extensions in practically anything, similar to Kakoune in that regard. But what I find odd is that there's no mention of a repo (though it has a link to a Discord server) anywhere on the site as far as I've seen.

Sadly there's no mention of LSP either which is kinda a deal-breaker these days nor anything about tree-sitter. But at the same time this might mean that Anvil is free to experiment with its own solutions without being tied to a standard. Every cloud a silver lining or how it goes.

Gio also seems like a solid choice for the UI.

I hope Anvil becomes more popular, it would be fun to see a new generation of niche text editors duke it out between Lem, Helix and Anvil.




Source code archives are available on the download page: https://anvil-editor.net/download/

But as you said I couldn't find a repo.


It is however open-source (MIT license).




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