Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE
Details
- External ID
- 49662496
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 82
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.905103668261563
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Description
https://paradise-runner.github.io/toast/
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and gaming mods
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal-based ide
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an in-terminal IDE entails deep systems programming around pseudoterminals (PTYs), terminal emulation (ANSI/VT100 parsing), and asynchronous text buffer manipulation.
What it would actually take: The project requires a systems language like Rust or Go interfacing with POSIX termios/ioctl or Windows ConPTY APIs to spawn and manage child processes. It requires a high-performance terminal UI renderer (like Ratatui), custom piecewise rope/gap-buffer data structures for concurrent text editing, and integration with the Language Server Protocol (LSP) over stdio.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: VS Code, Vim, Emacs, NerdTree, Zed
Concerns raised: Terminal-based editors lack LaTeX rendering, inline images, browser integration, Terminal editors missing interactive visualizations and spreadsheet viewing, Built with AI but stance on AI not clearly stated upfront, Terminal-only approach is needlessly constraining vs GUI frameworks, Lack of VS Code workspace configuration file support
Feature requests: Support VS Code .code-workspace configuration files, Inline image and LaTeX rendering capabilities, Browser integration for viewing agent clicks, Interactive inline visualizations, Spreadsheet region selection for conversation references
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 163 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 164 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- Frost · hn · 2026-09-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- lime · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hotkey → Screenshot → AI Help. Works in Every App · hn · 2025-11-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- frost-icon-theme · github · 2026-09-19 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MacUp · hn · 2026-09-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Toastty · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- terminal-code · hn · 2026-08-19 · 108 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- codeshot · github · 2026-09-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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