Original author(s) Operating system Type Text editor | Development status Discontinued Available in 65 languages | |
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Initial release 2010; 7 years ago (2010) | ||
Kod (which means "code", including the source code, in Swedish) is a text editor for Mac OS X. Written by Rasmus Andersson, a Facebook designer, Kod is designed to be fitted specifically to Mac OS X's architecture.
Often likened to a less feature-rich version of TextMate, Kod is unique among OS X-only text editors in its use of tabs ported from Chromium which can be torn off into new windows.
Kod supports syntax highlighting for more than 65 programming languages. It is also notable for its integrated scripting environment based on Node.js, as well as the ability to theme the application through CSS3.
Kod is free, but is released under a modified MIT License which adds the following clause:
The Software and/or source code cannot be copied in whole and sold without meaningful modification for a profit.
In 2012, the project's founder declared he no longer used or was working on Kod, and recommended Sublime Text 2 as an alternative.