Our First Full-Time Contributor: A Big Step Forward

We’re excited to share a milestone moment in CodeEdit’s journey:
For the first time, we’ve brought on a full-time contributor to work on the project.

Thanks to the steady support from our sponsors over the past few years, we’ve been able to bring on Khan Winter, one of our most dedicated and impactful contributors, to focus full-time on development for a limited period.

This is a big deal for us.

CodeEdit has always been a passion-driven, community-built project. Everyone involved has juggled this work alongside full-time jobs, school, and life. So having someone dedicated full-time — even just for a few months — means we can finally move at the kind of pace we’ve been dreaming about. It’s a chance to fix long-standing issues, polish key features, and make meaningful progress toward a 1.0 release.

Our Development Strategy

To make the most of this focused time, we’ve laid out a prioritized roadmap. The roadmap is broken down into clearly defined phases, with top-priority items at the top of each phase.

Khan’s approach is simple:

• Pick the highest priority item in the current phase
• Knock it out
• Repeat until the phase is complete
• Then move on to the next phase

He will also be posting daily progress updates and sharing weekly progress updates at our community meetup held every Saturday at 3pm UTC (join us on Discord to attend).

This rhythm helps us stay focused, get feedback early, and iterate quickly.

A Message from Khan

“I'm grateful and delighted to have the opportunity to work on CodeEdit full time. I’ll be putting my utmost effort towards this while I have the chance.”

“I’m looking forward to knocking out the features that we still have in our roadmap—everything from smoothing out basic editing interactions like copy-paste and multi-line editing, to integrating language servers for a best-in-class experience across all your favorite languages.”

“I want to thank our generous and wonderful sponsors who have made this all possible. None of this would happen without your support.”

You can hear more about Khan’s story and his vision for CodeEdit in the full video.

Get Involved

This full-time window won’t last forever — we have a limited runway, and we want to make the most of it. That’s why we’re inviting you to get involved in whatever way makes sense for you:

• 💙 Sponsor CodeEdit – Help us extend this full-time effort
• 💻 Contribute – Join the dev conversation, submit a PR, or help with docs
• 🗣️ Join our community – Hang out in Discord, join the weekly meetup, share your feedback

We believe CodeEdit can become the default code editor for macOS — fast, beautiful, open source, and built with care for the platform and community it serves.

This is a step in that direction.
Thanks for being part of it.