Pulsar

What Pulsar is

Pulsar is a free, open-source desktop text editor and a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom editor. Its built-in package manager lets users find and install packages or create their own. Language server integration adds autocompletion, smart navigation and other IDE features. A filesystem browser can open an individual file, one project or several projects in a single window. Editing tools include multiple cursors, snippets, semantic selections, code folding and syntax highlighting. Configuration files let users change keybindings, per-language settings, styles and other appearance or behavior. Git features include switching branches, staging code, resolving merge conflicts and viewing open GitHub pull requests. The bundled pulsar-updater checks for newer versions. The current release lists support for Windows 10 or later, macOS 10.15 or later, and Linux with glibc 2.31 or later. The project says the editor collects no user information and sends nothing to remote servers; its policy also says backend troubleshooting logs include IP address and user-agent details and are automatically deleted after 30 days. Windows binaries are unsigned and may prompt a SmartScreen warning.