Your little corner of the Hydrogen universe

Hello, Quark. Let's make something wonderful.

Meet a friendly place to write Hydrogen, explore your projects and see your ideas come together. Quark keeps the everyday tools close, so you can focus on creating.

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Quark is in active development. See what's ready and what's still being built.

Inside QuarkIDE

Quark IDE development workspace with editor and project panels

Made for
Hydrogen

What's Quark?

Quark is Aurora Softwares' IDE for Hydrogen, bringing editing, projects, builds and an evolving visual interface designer together. Its native desktop frontend is being developed for Linux, macOS and Windows.

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A good place to begin

Start at your own pace

Three small steps to feel at home in Quark. No experience with IDEs required.

01 · GET READY

Install Quark

Set up the development build and make sure your computer is ready for Hydrogen.

Start here 02 · MAKE SOMETHING

Your first project

Open a Hydrogen project, explore the editor and make your first build.

Follow the guide 03 · KEEP BUILDING

Design an interface

Get to know HYUI, native control previews and the visual layout workflow.

Explore the designer

Take a closer look

Get to know your workspace.

Genuine Quark IDE screenshots from earlier development versions. The new native interface is evolving, so some details will look different in current builds.

01 · DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW

The workspace