paradise-runner/toast
a batteries-included, beautiful, in-terminal IDE
About the project
A terminal IDE written in Go that ships batteries-included: managed LSPs, file tree, tabs, tree-sitter highlighting and themes out of the box. For developers who want to stay in the terminal without hours of editor setup.
Useful for
- Open a project in the terminal and get LSP, file tree and tabs with no setup
- Search the project with ripgrep and jump to a symbol definition via Ctrl-click
- Preview Markdown files with spell checking inside the editor
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 10 stars today. The usual pace is 1 per day, so that's 10× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE” — 81 points, 2 days ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 217
- Stars in a day
- 10
- Forks
- 4
- Issues and pull requests
- 67
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Go
- Latest release
- v0.9.0 · August 29, 2026
- Created
- March 23, 2026
- Last push
- September 11, 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
- Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE81 points, September 11, 2026
Spotted in
- September 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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