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Someone spent NINE YEARS building an IDE from scratch. 🤯

Someone spent NINE YEARS building an IDE from scratch. 🤯 And they just open-sourced the whole thing. Rune is: -…

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Someone spent NINE YEARS building an IDE from scratch. 🤯 And they just open-sourced the whole thing. Rune is: - Native + GPU-rendered - Written primarily in Go - Terminal-first - Agent-ready - MCP + local model support - GPLv3 No Electron wrapper. https://github.com/unstablebuild/rune

Posted by Tony Simons (11.6k followers) 5 days ago · 29 likes · 2.5k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Terminal & editor. Tools mentioned: rune.

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