Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by Arubis on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:23PM (#46572127)

I happily paid money for Typora, which does roughly the same thing for just Markdown without support for JSON, Yaml (that I know of). This feels like a ripe space, especially with LLMs eagerly outputting reams of parseable text with embedded diagrams.

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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by vunderba on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:22AM (#46572918)

+1 happy user of Typora. I really like its ability to auto-create a related assets folder for embedded media as it’s dragged into a doc.

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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by danfoxley on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:10PM (#46578012)

I like the editor, but Typora’s lineage is opaque, which worries me.

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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by gregman1 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:33AM (#46572969)

The $15 price tag for Typora seems a bit steep considering the fundamental features it provides.

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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by swiftcoder on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:14AM (#46573642)

The price of a fancy burger doesn't seem all that unreasonable for a piece of software one finds even moderately useful (of course, depending on your local exchange rate that may be more or less true)

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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by zen928 on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:42AM (#46584527)

Sometimes you're a patron of the arts more than an engineer on these types of purchases, I think

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Re:Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Me... by OlaProis on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:34AM (#46573999)

Thanks! Typora is great - Ferrite aims for similar polish but with native Mermaid, structured data support (JSON/YAML/TOML tree viewer), and the pipeline feature for shell integration. And it's open source!

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