Acme
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 21, 2025first mention
Oct 8, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It might be different if these things leaned a little bit into acme”
“If you look at the Sam and Acme text editors you will find they are true modern TUI programs.”
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“I use Acme for everything except web browsing”
“it’s optimized for this style of work”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
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Also written as acme, ACME. Data: acme.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“It might be different if these things leaned a little bit into acme”
“If you look at the Sam and Acme text editors you will find they are true modern TUI programs.”
“I use Rio, Acme, and occasionally Sam from plan9port”
“I use Acme for everything except web browsing”
“it’s optimized for this style of work”
“one day we will have a new acme, written in common lisp and displaying all the correct colors”
“It aims for ACME compatibility (same directive syntax, same output format)”
“I think that Acme is very underrated in its domain”
Literally just got bit by this. I added a wildcard domain to a cert servicing multiple sites. Apparently the verification process for wildcards is more onerous and even when you have it working it wont renew in the same way as a normal cert. It requires specific workarounds based on your dns provider. Appreciative that we moved away from paid certs that required manual work to renew every year but this feels like a m
“you can still form an opinion about the tool”