unstablebuild/rune

the development environment for pros

Developer toolsGo#go#golang#ide#rune#text-editor

6.2 Early signal Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

About the project

A fast, GPU-rendered, keyboard-driven IDE for power users: code, terminals, CLI tools, language intelligence, debugging, and AI agents in one composable multi-workspace environment. The AI coding agent ships as an extension rather than part of the core editor.

Useful for

Build the editor from source with go run ./cmd/rune or make
Attach Rune Agent as an extension for automatic programming
Run the test suite and linter via make test and make lint

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

60 stars today.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 3 days old and already has 460 stars.
Top new repositories this week: #24.
Hacker News: “Rune is now open source” — 217 points, 2 days ago.
About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @millette (306 followers), @MarcoPolo (254 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 460
Stars in a day: 61
Forks: 27
Issues and pull requests: 65
Watchers: 1
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
Latest release: v1.2.1 · September 11, 2026
Created: September 10, 2026
Last push: September 13, 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

Rune is now open source217 points, September 11, 2026

Spotted in

September 13, 2026Top new repositories this week: #23

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