Three prevalent themes in the discussion
- Open‑source licensing & contributor compensation
- Many commenters praised the GPLv3 license and the novel profit‑sharing model.
- fishgoesblub: “Lovely to see … under the GPLv3, and not some crap like MIT.”
- anigbrowl: “The open ledger and profit‑sharing for contributors might be an even more interesting innovation than the IDE itself.”
- ernestrc (author): “We’re still working on the legal details, but should have something finalized in the coming weeks.”
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_bent warned about financial incentives, showing the topic sparked debate.
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Cross‑platform packaging & distribution
- Users repeatedly asked about availability on Fedora, Flatpak, Homebrew, and similar systems.
- purpleidea: “I will try this as soon as there is a package in Fedora… That's my personal subjective bar to choosing a new EDITOR.”
- criticalfault: “what about flatpak?”
- ernestrc: “I've been using Arch Linux and macOS… It could be a good option until Rune is popular enough… also working on a cask for homebrew.”
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Conan_Kudo: “Since it's written in Go, you might want to reach out to the Fedora Go SIG…”.
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Editor usability, features & remote work experience
- Discussion centered on keyboard modes, theme support, demo videos, and remote editing (SSH/Tailscale).
- bobajeff: “One thing I would like to see on the home page is a video showing it being used… Also would like to see how it looks in a light theme… keyboard driven… modal or modeless?”
- ernestrc replied: “Three modes, vim, emacs and standard…”, “I hate being in front of a camera” (video), “Not great… I prefer dark themes” (light theme).
- rao‑v: “Could this (optionally) just run over Tailscale…?”
- ernestrc: “SSH is always an option… we embed tsnet in Rune and use headscale as the coordination server.”
- natnatenathan: Highlighted desire for document viewers and task lists, showing broader IDE expectations.