Most "Mac" code editors aren't Mac apps. They're Chrome windows in a trench coat. Nearly every popular editor ships cross-platform first — Electron under the hood, macOS an afterthought. Fine for shipping fast. Not fine for your RAM, your battery, or how the app feels. In 2022, designer Austin Condiff asked: what would a code editor look like if it were built for macOS and nothing else? @CodeEditApp is the community's answer. 23,000 GitHub stars. 1,100+ forks. MIT licensed. Free forever — built entirely by volunteers. CodeEdit is a code editor written completely in Swift and SwiftUI — native from the first line, no web stack anywhere. Here's what makes it different: → 100% native Swift/SwiftUI — fast launch, low memory, feels like an actual Mac app → Syntax highlighting and code completion on a native editing engine → Integrated terminal, task runner, and project-wide find & replace → Git integration with code review workflows built in → An extensions system so the community can take it further → Modular by design — its editor components ship as reusable Swift packages other Mac apps already use → The stated goal: Xcode's lightness with VS Code's flexibility → Still pre-1.0 (v0.3.6) and already at 23k stars — that's how starved Mac devs are for native tools Electron won because it made shipping easy for developers. CodeEdit is a bet that the developers *using* the tools deserve better than easy. Discovered on OSSphere : ossphere.dev/CodeEditApp/Cod… Native app or cross-platform — what's actually in your dock? Drop it below 👇 #macOS #Swift #SwiftUI #CodeEditor #DevTools #BuildInPublic #OpenSource