Hackerman

Lightweight, hackable, and AI-native code editor

No telemetry. No sign in. Buy once, own forever.

Launching for MacOS in 2025

the Emacs of the AI age – ChatGPT

Editor roadmap

Submit feature requests in our Discord channel #feature-requests

Done

Core editor features (multi-cursor editing, multiple selections)

Everything as text files

Multiple views, single document (changes instantly reflected in all views)

Zed-like performance

Create your own themes

Local LLMs

Copilot-like code completion (opt-in)

Project-wide search

Keybind custom functions

GPU acceleration

Polishing

Bring your own lexer (for esolangs)

Support for mix-and-match LLM models

Inline shell, eval, and AI chat

Emacs-like org mode for notes (replacing scratch pad)

Building

Context-aware autocomplete (AI based)

Remote development (SSH)

Virtual buffers for very large files (10M+ lines)

Sublime-like performance

Model support (recommended models)

Support for both local and hosted models.

Code Completion (fill-in-the-middle)

Qwen 2.5 Coder (via Ollama)

Codestral by Mistral

Mercury Coder by Inception

Code Instruction

GPT-4o by OpenAI

Any larger model (via Ollama)

Inline chat

GPT-4o by OpenAI

Any larger model (via Ollama)

Programming language support

Built-in native-level lexers optimized for speed.

Assembly

Bash

C

C++

C#

CSS

Cython

D

Dart

Fortran

Go

Haskell

HTML

JavaScript

Kotlin

LaTeX

Lisp

Lua

Makefile

Markdown

Mojo

Nim

OCaml

Odin

Pascal

Perl

PHP

PowerShell

Prolog

Python

R

Ruby

Rust

Scala

Swift

TypeScript

Verilog

Zig

Jai

Excellent support Basic support

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