micro-editor/micro
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
29.7k stars · 1.4k forks · Go
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 12 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 12
- Human commits, 90 days
- 32
- Human commits, 365 days
- 116
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 12
- Last release
- Dec 31, 2025 (9 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 3 days
Responsiveness: of 21 recent issues, 86% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 116 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 3
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 12
- Contributors
- 316
Top committers
- JoeKar: 41% of commits
- Neko-Box-Coder: 9% of commits
- Andriamanitra: 6% of commits
- dmaluka: 5% of commits
- injust: 4% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 16, 2016 to May 5, 2016: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 545 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- May 31, 2016 to Jun 1, 2016: about 30 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 29, 2016 to Sep 16, 2016: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 662 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 28, 2017 to May 30, 2017: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 28, 2017 to Oct 13, 2017: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 603 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- May 20, 2018 to May 24, 2018: about 299 more stars than usual, peak 184 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 22, 2018 to Nov 23, 2018: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 5, 2020 to Jan 7, 2020: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 28, 2020 to Jun 7, 2020: about 694 more stars than usual, peak 292 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Nov 6, 2021 to Nov 9, 2021: about 248 more stars than usual, peak 173 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 17, 2023 to Aug 24, 2023: about 518 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- May 27, 2024 to May 29, 2024: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 26, 2026 to Jul 27, 2026: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- github.com/micro-editor/micro/v2 (GO): latest v2.0.16-0.20261007173658-e207f97cddca, published Oct 7, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: micro-editor/micro, deps.dev: Go github.com/micro-editor/micro/v2
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[](https://reporadar.ai/micro-editor/micro)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 10 hours ago · method 2026.10.2