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24 alternatives to Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE

A vim-like in Python. Contribute to vyapp/vy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Vy is a minimalist integrated development environment with a retro aesthetic. It provides core IDE functionality for writing and editing code while maintaining a stripped-down, vintage-inspired design philosophy. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Vy – a powerful but retro and minimalist IDE launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Vy by Vercept▲144
Hi HN, I am Kiana, I was an AI researcher for 10 years, and since last November I have been working on Vy. Vy is a desktop app for Mac and Windows. It sees your screen and controls mouse and keyboard to automate workflows across apps, including ones without APIs. I know there is a lot of skepticism about AI agents, and I share some of it. A lot of things in this space look impressive in demos and then fall apart on real, boring work. So here are a few concrete things that Vy does today that we and early users actually rely on: Where it works best Tasks that you could explain in a paragraph…
2025 · vercept.com · its alternatives →
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v0 for iOS▲655
While using iTerm2 while busy working today, I once again felt frustrated by having too many tabs and losing the overall perspective of what tasks were in progress. So, I used v0 + Opus 4.5 to envision an ideal Terminal tab management UI in my mind, to demonstrate the best way for me to manage tabs in the terminal. What do you think?
Oct 2025 · v0.app · its alternatives →
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Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations▲449
Hey HN, Scripton (https://scripton.dev) is a Python IDE built for fast, interactive visualizations and exploratory programming — without the constraints of notebooks. Why another Python IDE? Scripton hopes to fill a gap in the Python development ecosystem by being an IDE that: 1. Focuses on easy, fast, and interactive visualizations (and exposes rich JS plotting libraries like Observable Plot and Plotly directly to Python) 2. Provides a tightly integrated REPL for rapid prototyping and exploration 3. Is script-centric (as opposed to, say, notebook-style) A historical detour for why…
2025 · scripton.dev · its alternatives →
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v0.dev by Vercel▲549
Generate UI with simple text prompts: copy, paste, ship
2023 · v0.app · its alternatives →
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A succinct vim-like editor.▲24
vyapp has 6 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
6VA
(vy) A nifty vim-like editor running on python3 now▲6
https://github.com/iogf/vy
2017 · its alternatives →
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A small virtual machine written in C▲212
"interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vamah.ai 2.0▲268
Clone websites and Figma designs into editable sites
Jan 2026 · vamah.ai · its alternatives →
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Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners▲371
Some highlights: - 100% free and open source (https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder), no ads or paid content. - No account required at any point. You can start instantly. (You can create an account if you want to save your progress online and across devices. Your email is only used for password resets) - 3 integrated debuggers can be started with one click to show what your code is doing in different ways. - Enhanced tracebacks make errors easy to understand. - Useful for anyone: You can have the above without having to look at the course. IDE mode…
2023 · futurecoder.io · its alternatives →
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Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)▲233
We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML/XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly). This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (http:// and file:// only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet, but we’re making progress fast. We’d love your thoughts and feedback.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vx.dev – GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development▲96
2024 · vxdev.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Subvim – Vim customized to be like SublimeText▲90
Vim customized to be like SublimeText. Contribute to fatih/subvim development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code▲200
A complete compiler for a simple language (in less than 150 LoC) - 00_readme.md
2022 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Visual Python – open source visual Python code generator▲42
GUI-based Python code generator for data science, extension to Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook and Google Colab. - visualpython/visualpython
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a VM and Compiler for a small language in Go▲37
My implementation of Thorsten Bell's book (Writing an Interpreter in Go) - actuallyachraf/monkey-giggle
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made a better Perplexity for developers▲185
Hi HN, I am Jiayuan, and I'm here to introduce a tool we've been building over the past few months: Devv (https://devv.ai). In simple terms, it is an AI-powered search engine specifically designed for developers. Now, you might ask, with so many AI search engines already available—Perplexity, You.com, Phind, and several open-source projects—why do we need another one? We all know that Generative Search Engines are built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)[1] combined with Large Language Models (LLMs). Most of the products mentioned above use indexes from general search engines…
2024 · devv.ai · its alternatives →
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Using Vim as an input method editor (IME) for X11 apps▲132
As a Vim user, I often use Vim to write some text and then copy & paste it into another text field of GUI apps (e.g. browsers, chat apps, etc.), because almost all of these text fields provide only very basic editing functions. A while ago, I came up with an idea: what if we could use Vim as an IME? Ordinary IMEs are used to input some non-English characters, but the essential functions of IME are 1) receiving a keyboard sequence 2) process the key sequence and outputting a text These functions are the same as text editor's. So I thought implementing an IME that can be used with Vim…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vy) the Vim-Like on Tkinter▲5
A vim-like in Python. Contribute to vyapp/vy development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
19XV
Xs-vm – A small virtual machine written in Python▲34
2015 · gedrap.github.io · its alternatives →
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A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor▲120
A dead simple editor. Contribute to hellerve/e development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Silicon-Py▲10
A Simple yet Elegant Python Code Editor
2025 · silicon-py.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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IDE for Learning RISC-V▲105
RARS -- RISC-V Assembler and Runtime Simulator. Contribute to TheThirdOne/rars development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Low code Jupyter Notebook alternative with dashboards▲37
Interactive Computing for Humans. Contribute to herqooly/herqooly development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LazyVim for Ambitious Developers▲68
With zero AI generated content. ;-)
2024 · lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes · its alternatives →

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