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A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2026-01-11 · latest 2026-11-09

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  1. Ferrite ([github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite]( https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite )), a native Markdown editor I'm building in Rust + egui. It also handles JSON, YAML, TOML and CSV. It has raw, split and WYSIWYG modes, [[wikilinks]] with a…
    comment by OlaProis · 2026-11-09 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
  2. …22.04 compatibility 5 — .deb now works on 22.04+ Thanks to everyone who reported issues! Download: https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite/releases/tag/v0.2.2
    comment by OlaProis · 2026-01-11 · in Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
  3. Doesn't install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS due to dependecy problems. Filed a bug: https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite/issues/6
    comment by listic · 2026-01-11 · in Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
  4. (not associated, just looked at the code - no js interpreter) https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite/blob/master/src/markdow...
    comment by jasonjmcghee · 2026-01-11 · in Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
  5. Looks like it’s currently a subset of mermaid natively in rust https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite/blob/master/src/markdow...
    comment by lkschubert8 · 2026-01-11 · in Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering