helix-editor/helix
A post-modern modal text editor.
About the project
A terminal-based modal text editor written in Rust, inspired by Kakoune and Neovim. It supports multiple selections, built-in language server support, and tree-sitter syntax highlighting.
Useful for
- Edit code in the terminal with tree-sitter syntax highlighting
- Use multiple selections for bulk text editing
- Connect a language server for autocompletion and code navigation
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 4 stars so far today, about 11 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Rust today: #7, +21 stars.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 46,409
- Today
- 4 · ≈ 11 by evening
- Forks
- 3,796
- Issues and pull requests
- 13,003
- Watchers
- 236
- Language
- Rust
- License
- MPL-2.0
- Latest release
- 25.07.1 · July 18, 2025
- Created
- June 1, 2020
- Last push
- September 29, 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.
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- October 1, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #7, +21 stars
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