Kakoune vs Micro : What are the differences?

Kakoune: Vim inspired — Faster as in less keystrokes — Multiple selections — Orthogonal design. Kakoune is a code editor heavily inspired by Vim, as such most of its commands are similar to vi’s ones Kakoune can operate in two modes, normal and insertion. In insertion mode, keys are directly inserted into the current buffer. In normal mode, keys are used to manipulate the current selection and to enter insertion mode.; Micro : Modern terminal-based text editor. Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

Kakoune and Micro can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.

Kakoune and Micro are both open source tools. It seems that Micro with 11.1K GitHub stars and 503 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Kakoune with 4.85K GitHub stars and 354 GitHub forks.