pino

Inspiration

when I am looking for a code editor to getting use too, I didn't choose vscode because it doesn't reflect my tastes, I am not into pop culture. I didn't choose vim and emacs because I am also wise to my time and effort. I didn't choose nvim or zed because I don't believe in hype.

I want one that works 20 years ago and 20 years later. as the same choice as Linus, I choose GNU nano as my base of my AI text editor.

What it does

pino is the fork of nano, so it does what nano does, but much a little more. it enhanced nano's configuration file features with pipelined scripting manipulate text in the current buffer. thus it also can replicate on existing function with a sense of stability than agentic approach.

How we built it

before we build it we are already using it. and in fact we are using it to build it.

Challenges we ran into

as for gpt-oss, we have some issues to run it on my machine, is quite slow on my M1 Pro. there also problem with running pino on iOS, because there is no complete emulator we can use to compile our code on iOS, we have to cross-compile it to make it happen.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

we are doing it in a very short time and we are actually using it on our day to day basis. replaced my note taking app and coding app and server configuration. it also sometimes works like a web browser (without distraction, I get what I want without jumping to another rabbit hole.)

What we learned

we learned the simplest is the best, the oldest adoption is the best. technology is full of hype. :)

What's next for pino

we are looking to build our open source community and user base, we are looking for fund for sure, and to find a SaaS model that "free but not as free beer." and we are creating more function on the go without making it to large and complicated.

Built With

• c
• ncurses