Nev – keyboard focused GUI and terminal text editor

A solo dev just dropped Nev—a fast, keyboard-first code editor built in Nim that runs both in a window and right inside the terminal. It crams in big-league features: code help via LSP (language server protocol), colorful syntax highlighting, debugging through DAP, a built-in terminal, Git tools, and even plugins. The vibe? Pure spectacle. One user blinked and said it looks like VS Code “in the console,” while another called the flashy text interface a fever dream and admitted the in-terminal debugging “blew my mind.”

Then came the plot twist: a sharp-eyed commenter zoomed in on the small print—Nev currently saves files in just one style and skips certain line endings (the Windows flavor). Cue the engineers: “That’s trivial,” one insisted, questioning why it’s even a limitation. And just like that, the thread turned into a showdown between the wow-factor crowd and the “but what about the edge cases?” squad. Add in the pragmatic caveats—manual setup for language and debug tools, Treesitter parser hoops, Windows/Linux only, and a big “use at your own risk”—and you’ve got classic editor drama. The community mood swings from “this is the future of terminal apps” to “great demo, call me when it’s ready,” with the usual jokes about “yet another editor” and keybinding brain gymnastics spicing up the comments.