Getting Started

Editor.Land is in active development and is currently source-only. There are no pre-built installers or package manager releases yet. The supported way to run the editor today is to build from source on macOS or Windows.

What Works Today

On Apple Silicon or Intel macOS (13.0 Ventura or later) and on Windows 10/11, a successful build produces a working editor that:

Opens a native window with the workbench UI (WKWebView on macOS, WebView2 on Windows).
Loads VS Code extensions from disk and activates them through Cocoon, the Node.js extension host.
Provides file system, terminal, and debug adapter access through Mountain, the Rust kernel.
Runs the full gRPC-based IPC stack between Mountain and Cocoon via Vine.

The following are in progress: a Homebrew tap, a winget package, an apt repository, and an automated update mechanism.

Build Requirements

All of the following must be installed before building:

Rust 1.95.0 or later (install via rustup)
Node.js 20 or later
pnpm 9 or later (npm install -g pnpm)
macOS: Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install), macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or later
Windows: WebView2 Runtime (included with Windows 11; available separately for Windows 10), Visual Studio Build Tools with the C++ workload

Building from Source

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/CodeEditorLand/Land.git
cd Land
pnpm install
cargo tauri dev

cargo tauri dev starts the Tauri development server and opens the editor window. This is the debug-mountain profile: Mountain is running, Cocoon activates extensions, and Sky renders the workbench UI.

The first build takes several minutes because it compiles Mountain’s Rust dependencies from scratch. Subsequent builds are significantly faster due to Cargo’s incremental compilation.

Extension Loading

Cocoon discovers extensions from the filesystem at startup. The exact extension discovery path in the current build has not been independently confirmed to match VS Code’s ~/.vscode/extensions directory exactly. If an extension you expect to appear does not load, check the Cocoon output channel in the editor’s Output panel for activation errors.

Known Limitations

Linux not yet supported. Linux (WebKitGTK) is planned and in progress.
No marketplace integration. Extensions must be installed manually as .vsix files or sourced from disk. Marketplace API access is not yet implemented.
API gaps. vscode.lm.*, vscode.chat.*, vscode.notebook.*, and vscode.tests.* are not implemented. Extensions using these APIs activate but the specific features silently no-op.