# rsms/kod

Programmers' editor for OS X [DEAD PROJECT]

Repository: https://github.com/rsms/kod
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kod
Homepage: https://rsms.me/why-i-wrote-a-programmers-text-editor
Language: Objective-C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2011-09-28T13:57:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5848, "days_push": 5453, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2280, forks 165 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:33.744684+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, developer-tools
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: -
- tags: objective-c, programmers-editor, dead-project, native-osx, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- rsms/kod (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.744684+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:41:23.109244+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rsms/kod (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:33.744684+00:00, sha e390f2d80cd6)
  - homepage: https://rsms.me/why-i-wrote-a-programmers-text-editor (fetched 2026-08-29T10:21:37.935650+00:00, sha 672159aca2ee)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.