Nothelix stands on open-source work. Every dependency below earns its place, and each table names the project, the job it does, and the reason it is here.
Project
Role
Why
Helix Host editor
Nothelix lives inside it, so you never leave the editor
Steel + plugin system Embedded Scheme
Commands, keymaps, pickers, and hooks without recompiling the editor
Inline-image fork Buffer image rendering
Plots appear where you work. See Architecture
Project
Role
Why
Julia Kernel language
Cells run against a real process, so state persists like a REPL
juliaup Julia installer
Keeps kernel setup predictable
JETLS Language server
Optional code intelligence. See Language server
Runic Formatter
Format-on-request, delegated by JETLS
Project
Role
Why
Typst Typesetting
Display math, tables, and PDF or Typst export with no LaTeX install
MiTeX LaTeX to Typst
Write LaTeX in a notebook and get correct Typst out. See Architecture
resvg + tiny-skia SVG rasteriser
Turns Typst SVG into pixels
Kitty graphics protocol Terminal image transport
Carries images into the buffer
Project
Role
Why
image Decode and convert
Image format handling
serde Serialization
The wire format between every layer
comrak Markdown parser
Reads markdown cells and prose blocks
rayon Parallelism
Batch math rendering
base64 Encoding
Image wire format
Smaller crates round out the build. phf provides the static lookup maps, nix handles process signals, and tempfile manages scratch directories. The build uses a Rust nightly toolchain.
Project
What it taught
Marimo A notebook can be a decorated source file, not a JSON blob
euporie , SymPy pretty-printer, termtexWhat math looks like in a terminal, which shaped the tiered rendering strategy
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Nothelix is released under the MIT licence. Each project above is governed by its own licence, so follow the links.
Nothelix is MIT licensed. It stands on Helix, Steel, Julia, and Typst, among others — see the credits.