# helix-editor/helix

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.0 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 46,409 total · +4 stars today, ≈ 10 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: MPL-2.0 · Created: 2020-06-01 · Last push: 2026-09-29
- GitHub: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix · Homepage: https://helix-editor.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/helix-editor/helix

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 4 stars so far today, about 10 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending Rust today: #7, +21 stars.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## 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: 3,797
- Issues and pull requests: 13,004
- Watchers: 236
- Average over the last week: 15 per day
- Usual pace: 15 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: 25.07.1 (2025-07-18)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-02 … 2026-10-01: 18, 16, 17, 11, 19, 17, 18, 18, 20, 14, 15, 16, 18, 12, 14, 11, 16, 13, 15, 14, 12, 13, 15, 9, 24, 15, 13, 10, 25, 4

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending Rust today: #7, +21 stars

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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 2026-10-01 13:52 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.