FoxDevCommunity/FoxDevStudio
A modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications.
About the project
FoxDev Studio is a modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications, built with Rust and Electron. It enables developing and running VFP applications with support for large tables (over 2 GB).
Useful for
- Create a form using the visual designer and run its preview (Ctrl+E).
- Build the project into an executable (.exe) to run without the IDE.
- Open and edit a .dbf or .dbc table in the table browser.
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 2 stars so far today, about 23 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 86 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #199.
- Hacker News: “Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived” — 474 points, 1 day ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 86
- Today
- 2 · ≈ 23 by evening
- Forks
- 4
- Issues and pull requests
- 12
- Watchers
- 2
- Language
- Rust
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- nightly · September 22, 2026
- Created
- September 22, 2026
- Last push
- September 22, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived474 points, September 22, 2026
Spotted in
- September 24, 2026Top new repositories this week: #199
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