toast

Where vim, Neovim and Emacs expect you to assemble an editor piece by piece, toast arrives as a finished in-terminal IDE: a file tree with git status, multiple tabs, a command palette and themes are there on first launch. Language servers are managed for you, so when a server for Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or Markdown is missing, toast offers to install it, and other languages can be wired in through its config. Syntax highlighting comes from tree-sitter, project-wide search runs on ripgrep, and Ctrl-click jumps to a symbol's definition.

There are no AI features and no telemetry, which the project lists as deliberate points of difference from VS Code and Zed. Markdown files get a preview and spell checking through harper, dirty buffers are auto-saved after a short idle delay, and a VS Code theme importer sits beside the built-in dark, light and terminal-derived themes. Installation on macOS is a single brew install from the paradise-runner tap. The README flags the project as early development, so bugs are expected.