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 )
Quiet mode for scripts (-q)
Try it out:
GitHub: github.com/logicmagix/tide42
License: GPLv3
Clone, install, and run tide42 to get started.
great idea to just wrap existing tools! love that. now i just need to figure out how to switch out the editor...