OlaProeis/Ferrite
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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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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) -
…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 -
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 -
(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 -
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 -
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Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram renderingstory by OlaProis · 2026-01-11 · 190 comments