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emacs-starter-kit vs Easel
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Recorded Stars Comparison
● kjhealy/emacs-starter-kit (166)
● jamesrochabrun/Easel (167)
☆ 166emacs-starter-kit stars
☆ 167Easel stars
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EaselStar Leader (1.0x)
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Star Popularity
Easel Leads
+1 stars (1.0x ratio)
Forks & Derivatives
emacs-starter-kit Leads
66 total community forks
Recent Maintenance
Easel
Pushed 28d ago
Licensing
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emacs-starter-kit: — vs Easel: MIT
Side-by-Side Facts
| Metric | kjhealy/emacs-starter-kit ↗ | jamesrochabrun/Easel ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Description | NO LONGER MAINTAINED! A drop-in starter-kit for Emacs 24, aimed at social scientists researching and writing in plain text using some combination of LaTeX, R, ESS, Git, Markdown, and Org-Mode. | Easel is a Codex and Claude macOS workspace for AI-assisted product design and frontend iteration. It brings a local project library, design-system setup, Codex chat, a live web preview with a point-and-click inspector, and slide tooling together in one native SwiftUI app |
| GitHub Stars | ☆ 166 | ☆ 167 |
| Forks | 66 | 10 |
| Open Issues | 14 | 7 |
| Main Language | Emacs Lisp | Swift |
| License | Not identified | MIT |
| Last Push | Jun 18, 2022 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| GitHub Source | Open Source ↗ | Open Source ↗ |
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