Hey devs, I recently wrapped the latest stable release of Tide42, a lightweight terminal-based IDE designed for speed, flexibility, and a clean coding experience — especially for those of us who live in the terminal.
Tide42 integrates tmux, nvim, and thoughtful Bash scripting into a seamless dev workflow with:
True 256-color support (color toggle with -c)
Elegant, fast session layout using tmux
Self-updating mechanism (–update) to pull the latest version from GitHub
Multi-distro install script for Debian, Arch, macOS (via apt, pacman, brew)
Respectful config handling – never overwrites your dotfiles
Simple interactive file launcher (tide42 <filename>)
Quiet mode for scripts (-q)
Try it out: GitHub: github.com/logicmagix/tide42 License: GPLv3 Clone, install, and run tide42 to get started.
OK What the hell man I love this in concept. Definitly not something I’d use, got my own setup and I like it quite alot, but fuck man I’ve always described NeoVim as a build it yourself text editor and you’ve said here “why stop at neovim?”
Hell yeah my guy. That’s such a cool way to at least get your environment running on any system. Would love to look into this to see if I can do something similar. Right now I just have a bash script that builds up my env.