rsms/kod
Programmers' editor for OS X [DEAD PROJECT] observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5848
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 5453
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2280 stars · 165 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Kod is an open-source programmers' text editor for Mac OS X, written in Objective-C as a native, standards-compliant OS X application. The project is explicitly marked as dead, with its last release in 2011.
Use cases
- edit source code on mac os x
- native mac text editor for programmers
- open source code editor for osx
- study the source of a native objective-c text editor
When to choose
- you want a native-feeling OS X code editor and are willing to use an unmaintained 2011-era build
- you want to study or fork the source of an Objective-C text editor
When to avoid
- you need a maintained editor with modern language support and bug fixes
- you need cross-platform support
- you rely on plugin ecosystems or current macOS compatibility
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
editor developer-tools text-editors developer-tools operating-systems objective-c programmers-editor dead-project native-osx macos desktop
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/rsms/kod · fetched 2026-08-28 · e390f2d80cd6
- homepage: https://rsms.me/why-i-wrote-a-programmers-text-editor · fetched 2026-08-29 · 672159aca2ee
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rsms/kod | main | 10 |
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