Sonas

sonas Irish noun: "happiness, good luck, good fortune". Etymology: Middle Irish sonus ("prosperity, happiness")

Sonas aims to be the Framework of IDEs — a modular and malleable development environment that YOU can shape for YOUR needs.

Here are some example environments that you would be able to craft using Sonas:

• Minecraft plugin / mod development
• Unity game scripting development
• Framework-specific web development
• Desktop app development
• Backend service development (w/ API client module)
• Database management & development
• Model training using Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb)
• Node-based automation workflow development
• Git version control client
• GitHub version control client
• Notion-like dashboard development
• Obsidian-like graph-based Markdown note-taking

Each feature should be modular and malleable, with incremental difficulty of modification for end users.
Modules should fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, both in logic and in UI.

To build and ship fast enough for dogfooding release, I will only focus on the desktop app development (framework specific).

Ideas for Modular Widgets

• Music / ambience / vinyl player
• Plant / forest that grows every time a task is completed
• Gamified task tracking system (similar to Linear), with visible progress bar that motivates the user to complete tasks (like a video game quest)
• Local / offline docs or whitelisted browser-based docs
• Git history visualization (horizontal and vertical)

Development

Run the setup script to install dependencies for developing Sonas.

Linux & macOS

chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh

Then run:

bun tauri dev

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Tauri + rust-analyzer