What is Redcar?
Redcar is an open source text editor and IDE written in the Ruby programming language. It is designed for programmers and aims to create a fast and usable environment for coding.
Some key features of Redcar include:
- Syntax highlighting for over 50 programming languages
- Project management tools for handling multiple files and directories
- Plugin architecture to extend functionality
- Keybindings customization
- Integrated terminal window
- Snippets and autocomplete
- Multi-cursor and split window editing
Redcar runs natively on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It is highly customizable and aims to provide all essential tools for programmers within a clean and intuitive interface. While more lightweight than full-featured IDEs like Eclipse, it still offers many conveniences for coding with Ruby, Python, C/C++, HTML/CSS, and other languages.
Redcar is free, open source software released under the MIT License. It is coded in Ruby and C and relies on a number of third party libraries such Qt and Scintilla. Development is managed through GitHub.