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Gram

Gram is a powerful and modern source code editor. It features solid performance and is highly configurable, yet comes with batteries included out of the box. Gram supports many popular programming languages and file formats, and can use Zed extensions to support additional...

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • Gentoo  [https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram-gentoo](https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram-gentoo)
  • Homebrew
  • Windows
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Features

Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Distraction-free
  3.  Lightweight
  4.  Support for Themes
  5.  No AI

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Works Offline
  3. Git icon  Git Support
  4.  Full-Text Search
  5.  Syntax Highlighting
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Support for MarkDown
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  No registration required
  10.  Rust

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    astracode added Gram as alternative to AstraCode
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    Paul added Gram as alternative to NEO Emacs
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  • Gwrvan Barré thinks No AI is a important feature of Gram
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Gram, and it has gotten 12 likes

Gram was added to AlternativeTo by Darlene Sonalder on and this page was last updated .

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Xen Master
2

Gram is to Zed what VSCodium was meant to be for VSCode and what Notepad++ fixes for Notepad in that it removes the obnoxious parts of corporate/PE supported trash and turns it into a barebones useful tool for normal people, not bots!

I also like that Gram has native support for even obscure languages like Gleam and Odin without additional extensions or plugins. Third party VSCode extensions and neovim plugins increase the attack surface of these tools by exposing added supply chain vulnerabilities, as recent events show.

Single person forks like this rarely last though, I definitely hope I am wrong about that!

Yurets Loginoff
2

Like Zed editor, but no overhead!

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What is Gram?

Gram is a powerful and modern source code editor. It features solid performance and is highly configurable, yet comes with batteries included out of the box. Gram supports many popular programming languages and file formats, and can use Zed extensions to support additional languages. Other features include built-in documentation, debugger support via the DAP protocol, source control using git and more. Gram started as a fork of the Zed editor.

My hope is that Gram will be an editor that someone who is learning programming for the first time can download, install and use out of the box. No configuration or extensions should be necessary, and the editor should not try to push anything potentially malicious, distracting or confusing at them. In my opinion, both VS Code and the Zed editor fail in this regard. Manifesto

This project is first and foremost a source code editor. It aims to be a fast, reliable and hackable tool for developers to use, reuse, share and modify. It will never contain, support or condone any of the following "features" that permeate the Zed code editor: AI, Telemetry, Proprietary server components, third-party service integrations, Contributor Licenses, Terms of Service or subscription fees.

We promise:

NO AI (see note below) NO TELEMETRY NO PROPRIETARY "COLLABORATION" NO CLA NO TERMS OF USE NO THIRD PARTY LICENSING AGREEMENTS NO SUBSCRIPTIONS NO AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION OR UPDATES

For more thoughts on this topic, see the mission statement. Note on AI in Gram

Gram has no AI features in the form of LLM integration, and does not accept AI-generated code contributions. However, Gram is a fork of Zed which does not have any such policy, does contain AI features and whose codebase is more or less generated or otherwise made using LLMs. The generated code from Zed has to a large extent not been removed or replaced unless it was part of features removed from Gram. Thus, Gram fails the "smell-test" of checking for Claude as a contributor for example.

Some patches have been merged from upstream after the fork.