Skylark
Skylark Editor is written in C, a high performance text/hex editor. Embedded Database-client/Redis-client/Lua-engine. You can run Lua scripts and SQL files directly.
Skylark Editor is a customizable text/hex editor. Small, Portable, Fast. Compared with vs code, atom, and more editors, it can start up in less than a second~~ The project is written primarily in C, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2021. Key topics include: clang-format, code-snippets, dark-mode, database-client, hex-editor.
Latest release: 20260325063123— Release 20260325063123
March 25, 2026View Changelog →
skylark:
Skylark Editor is a customizable text/hex editor. Small, Portable, Fast.
Compared with vs code, atom, and more editors, it can start up in less than a second~~
features:
- Built in file manager and SFTP remote manager.
- Binary/Hex viewer for files of unlimited size.
- Encryption and decryption of common key algorithms.
- Perl Compatible Regular Expression.
- Enable AI-Powered Chat Integration
- Support for many encodings, Syntax highlight for a lot of languages.
- Supports sumatrapdf plugin.
- Supports clang-format.
- Supports code snippet.
- Supports dark mode.
Build:
- vc14 or above:
nmake clean nmake - clang:
nmake CC=clang-cl clean nmake CC=clang-cl
Screenshots:
- sumatrapdf plugin

- clang-format

- execute lua script

- execute sql

- json parsing

- hex view

- linux wine

- AI Chat

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