Fast modern editors and their language tooling. Every tool below installs with one apt command from
deb.griffo.io, is GPG-signed, and is rebuilt within hours of each
upstream release, no snap, no manual builds, no stale versions.
π There is an always-free mirror. deb-free.griffo.io serves packages free forever, no account, no subscription, at most 2 months behind upstream, security fixes immediately. It currently carries cliamp, Ghostty, lazydocker, Oh My Posh, Uncloud and Zed; any other tool can be enrolled on request.
π Version Comparison
| Tool | deb.griffo.io | Official Debian | Official Ubuntu | Official Linux Mint | Official Pop!_OS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fresh-editor | 0.5.4 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| Helix | 25.07.1 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| Neovim | 0.12.6 β | 0.10.4 π | 0.11.6 π | 0.9.5 π | 0.9.5 π |
| tree-sitter-cli | 0.27.1 β | 0.22.6 π | 0.25.9 π | 0.20.8 π | 0.20.8 π |
| Zed | 1.26.2 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
| ZLS | 0.17.0 β | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged | π« not packaged |
π The Tools
fresh-editor
A terminal based IDE and text editor, easy, powerful and fast, run with the fresh command
Helix
A post-modern modal text editor
Neovim
A hyperextensible Vim-based text editor with built-in LSP, Treesitter and Lua
tree-sitter-cli
Generate, build, test and debug Tree-sitter parsers and grammars from the command line
Zed
A high-performance, collaborative code editor from the creators of Atom
ZLS
Zig Language Server for IDE features and development productivity