Guilty as charged: https://github.com/drzel/vim-repo-edit

Above only works on vim. But has the advantage of working within vim, so no need to open a new instance, and with no external dependencies beyond git.

Well for one, giant repos from folks who don't understand why you shouldn't commit and push your 1 GB pytorch model.

Yay working with academic researchers.

for the core functionality, the tool pretty much does that, although I am thinking of adding trending repos and things as such.. and any other features that other folks have in mind, keeping the core utility of the tool as opening a repo in your editor

I believe the point of these tools is to be UNIXy, doing one thing well, and delegating the rest to other tools you already use. The script just downloads source code and drops you into an editor. Presumably, if you're a developer, you already have your editor set up for handling source code directories.