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Pulsar vs Lapce: catalog facts
Pulsar	Lapce
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under Apache 2.0.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux
It revives the Atom package ecosystem with its own package registry, so the hackable editor and its plugins…	Native Rust with GPU rendering, so it starts and scrolls faster than Electron editors Language Server Protocol support built in for completion, diagnostics and code actions
It is still Electron-based and inherits Atom's memory use and startup time, with a much smaller maintainer team.	Still pre-1.0; the last tagged release is from January 2026 Plugin ecosystem is tiny compared with VS Code
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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