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kod
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kod

Programmers' editor for OS X [DEAD PROJECT]

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What it is

Programmers' editor for OS X [DEAD PROJECT]

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Anyone using Kod? (https://github.com/rsms/kod) I love the interface, although it's still in beta and lacks a few handy features.

miles_matthias used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-12-25 23:19:44 UTC to 2021-02-02 00:48:40 UTC.

01232010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

7 sources
rasmusfabbe·Feb 2, 2021
Hello! Wow, cool to hear you followed along with Kod. It did ship and was used by a bunch of people. Its code is open source and still up on the github: https://github.com/rsms/kod More importantly Kod was a side project I did for fun during an extended vacation. I remember publishing the first version on a December evening while visting my Mom on the countryside of Sweden. The next morning the program had been downloaded 25000 times and I was like "wat?!" A really fun little side project. Playbit is something quite different to me. It is an _idea_ more so than a _solution_, it is a concept and path to a new alternative for software creating and sharing which I deeply believe in. Playbit is the beginning of a materialization of years of discussions, thoughts, experiences and research. I hope that I will have something more concrete to sha
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re soon. We have gotten so used to quick quick quick low-end web apps turning things around in a few months that I fear expectations on all software has been affected; Playbit is a long-term project and not something that will be "done" in a few months. Then again, I might screw this up and it might die as a concept and some half-written code. I guess we will see :–)
In Playbit – playing around with computers should be fun
meric·Nov 12, 2011
You like working with new and interesting technologies. Here is a open source text editor that hasn't had much contributions/work done in the past year, but involves many interesting aspects like a syntax-aware highlighter (made with a parser that runs continuously), a parser that is configured in a DSL (https://github.com/rsms/kod/blob/master/resources/json.gzl), syntax highlighting configured with CSS, tabs in Chrome style, node.js for handling events... Will you help work on this wonderful text editor? https://github.com/rsms/kod http://kodapp.com/
In Offer HN: I'll work on interesting projects for free
po·Jan 26, 2011
I was particularly surprised by the behavior of the tab key: https://github.com/rsms/kod/wiki/Indentation In a nutshell, if you press tab while anywhere on a line, it indents. Shift-Tab de-dents the line. After thinking about it a bit, I think I could get used to it. I like that they're exploring ideas like this. I would like preferences "CMD ," to be bound to something though even if it's to opening the configuration file itself. It's a bit disconcerting to not be given an explanation of why there are no preferences. I didn't understand the reasoning until I read this blog posting.
In Why I Wrote a Programmer's Text Editor

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