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pulsar · v1.131.3

5
7.0

Text editor

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Trust Score 5/10
✗ Open source (NOASSERTION) +0
✓ Active development +2
✓ Licensed +1
✗ No auto-updates +0
✓ Not deprecated +1
✓ Established (>1yr) +1
✗ Low installs +0

Version History

v1.131.3
9d ago1.131.1→1.131.3

Review

Mar 10, 2026

Pulsar is a community-driven, highly customizable text editor built with JavaScript. It offers extensive extensibility and customization options, making it ideal for developers who prefer a hackable and flexible coding environment.

Pulsar provides a text editing environment with support for extensions and customization.

Maturity: The project is active with regular commits and a large community, though there are some open issues.

Community: While there are mentions on Hacker News, they are not directly related to the text editor, leading to potential confusion with other projects named Pulsar.

Pros

  • + Highly customizable and extensible
  • + Community-driven with active development
  • + Built with modern JavaScript and web technologies

Cons

  • - Confusing name due to other projects also named Pulsar
  • - Open issues, particularly with syntax highlighting

GitHub

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4.0k
Stars
180
Forks
324
Issues
NOASSERTION
License
JavaScriptLast commit: Mar 8, 2026

Community Mentions

hackernews
Sep 2024 Show HN: Pulsar, micro creative coding playground
hackernews
Oct 2023 Pulsars, not dark matter, explain the Milky Way’s antimatter
hackernews
Jan 2020 Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
hackernews
Sep 2018 British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3M award for pulsar work
hackernews
Nov 2017 50 Years Ago Jocelyn Bell Discovered Pulsars
Positive sentiment Negative sentiment Neutral / unknown

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