Paper
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“competitors like Pen[1] and Paper[2] allow any local agent to edit”
“I love what Paper are doing for design”
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“I ended up running the paper minecraft server on one of our home linux computers”
“PaperMC also runs without a hitch”
Caveats and dissent
“do not use mods like paper or spigot or purpur as they will mess up farms”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I hope this CLI tool can truly do its work to save people’s pain points.”
“Hope it works and hope you will enjoy it!”
“Hello llagerlof, nope, it is not open source.”
“The repo is https://github.com/zahlman/paper but it's not really usable”
“my current main project (https://github.com/zahlman/paper)”
“I'm still working on PAPER (https://github.com/zahlman/paper)”
Threads where it came up
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Also written as PAPER, PaperMC, paper. Data: paper.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 7
“https://paper.design/”
“competitors like Pen[1] and Paper[2] allow any local agent to edit”
“I love what Paper are doing for design”
“I ended up running the paper minecraft server on one of our home linux computers”
“I ran geyser with paper for years”
“do not use mods like paper or spigot or purpur as they will mess up farms”
“PaperMC also runs without a hitch”