Fresh - The Terminal IDE

Fresh - The Terminal IDE

Fresh is a terminal IDE. One static binary, instant startup, broad LSP coverage, magit-style diff review, project-wide search, huge-file editing, SSH remote editing, and TypeScript plugins.

What are the current "standard" plugins for all the important IDE functionalities?

18 votes, 21 comments. I haven't updated my neovim config in a long time, and I used to keep a pretty minimal config too (just some of my own plugins…

brevity1swos/rgx

regex101 for the terminal — real-time matching, 3 engines, capture groups, replace mode, syntax highlighting, plain-English explanations, undo/redo, mouse support. Written in Rust.

Command Line Interface Guidelines

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

ui.sh — Turn your terminal into a design engineer

A toolkit for coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex to help you build UIs that don't suck.

Terminal Apps

A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.

Juno

IDE for J programming language

Fresh - The simple, approachable, productive web framework.

Fresh features just-in-time edge rendering, island based interactivity, and zero-configuration TypeScript support. Fast to write; fast to run.

GitHub - sst/opentui: OpenTUI is a library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs)

OpenTUI is a library for building terminal user interfaces (TUIs) - sst/opentui

can1357/oh-my-pi

⌥ AI Coding agent for the terminal — hash-anchored edits, optimized tool harness, LSP, Python, browser, subagents, and more

Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal

My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.

Ryan Carson on Twitter / X

I can see a future where it's much faster for all employees to use an IDE with .md files + git instead of Notion, Google Docs or Office.— Ryan Carson (@ryancarson) July 9, 2025

Terminal Graph — A spatial development environment for macOS

See everything. Switch nothing. Terminals, browsers, editors, and notes on one infinite canvas with dataflow connections. Native macOS.

Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal

Aider lets you pair program with LLMs to start a new project or build on your existing codebase.

Software as Wiki, Mutable Software - exe.dev blog

When your coding agent lives next to your software, editing it is as easy as editing a wiki.