Hackerman

the Emacs of the AI age

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A Lightweight, Hackable, and AI-native code editor

Launching for macOS and Linux in 2025

Editor roadmap

Submit feature requests in Discord channel #feature-requests

Done

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

Everything as text files (agent friendly)

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

Zed-like performance

Create your own themes

Project-wide search

Keybind custom functions

Local LLMs

Polishing

Bring your own lexer (for esolangs)

Support for mix-and-match LLM models

Inline commands, Python eval, and AI chat

Building

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

Remote development (SSH)

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

Sublime-like performance

Programming language support

Built-in native-level lexers optimized for speed.

Available

Assembly

Bash

C

C++

CSS

Cython

D

HTML

Lua

Odin

Python

Polishing

C#

JavaScript

JSON

Makefile

Markdown

Pascal

Perl

PowerShell

R

Ruby

Rust

Planned

Dart

Fortran

Go

Haskell

Kotlin

LaTeX

Lisp

Mojo

Nim

OCaml

PHP

Prolog

Scala

Swift

TypeScript

Verilog

Zig

Not backed by Combinator. Bootstrapped since 2024.

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