# dqhieu/Silica

> A native macOS code editor built with SwiftUI and AppKit, offering project file trees, fuzzy Quick Open, syntax highlighting for 25 languages, a minimap and Markdown preview.

- Magnitude: 3.0 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 174 total · +7 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–11:15 UTC, ≈ 15 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Swift · License: MIT · Created: 2026-11-08 · Last push: 2026-11-13
- GitHub: https://github.com/dqhieu/Silica · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/dqhieu/Silica

## Useful for

- Open a folder as a project and edit files with syntax highlighting and a minimap
- Jump between files with fuzzy Quick Open or search text across the whole project
- Preview Markdown files with highlighted code blocks while editing

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–11:15: 167 → 174 stars (+7). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +15 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 174 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- About 7 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @lin72h (363 followers), @cpiprint (223 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 16
- Issues and pull requests: 20
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 27 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v0.4.0 (2026-11-13)

## Stars per day, last 7 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-08 … 2026-11-14: 0, 7, 0, 110, 40, 15, 7

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-13 4.6, 11-14 3.1

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.