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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- Gentoo
- Homebrew
Gram
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Distraction-free
Features
Git Support- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Rust
Gram News & Activities
Recent activities
- justarandom added Gram
justarandom added Gram as alternative to Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, VSCodium and Sublime Text
Gram information
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.