Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#1

Post by fdeage » Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

I'm looking for a text editor similar to Cursor, Trae, or VS Code+Copilot, but one that would be open source and could use a local LLM as the backend.

Trae looks promising, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of sending my code/analytics/telemetry/whatever to the editor maker and the LLM vendor.

Are there any reasonably polished options available yet, particularly for macOS?

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#2

Post by dschuessler » Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 4:47 PM UTC

Continue [0] is open source and supports local models. I still haven't found time to try it out yet. If you host it in VSCodium [1], you would have pretty much what you asked for.

[0] https://www.continue.dev/

[1] https://vscodium.com/

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#3

Post by ericrallen » Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

Void Editor[0] looks promising.

[0]: https://voideditor.com/

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#4

Post by atmanactive » Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 8:36 PM UTC

dschuessler wrote: post #2

Continue [0] is open source and supports local models. I still haven't found time to try it out yet. If you host it in VSCodium [1], you would have pretty much what you asked for. [0] https://www.continue.dev/ [1] https://vscodium.com/

I'm running Continue on Ollama on VSCodium for a few weeks now and it is great! Much better than my good old TabNine.

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#5

Post by fdeage » Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

ericrallen wrote: post #3

Void Editor[0] looks promising. [0]: https://voideditor.com/

It has a waitlist and appears to be a fork to VS Code... But I will give it a try!

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#6

Post by fdeage » Sun, Jan 26, 2025, 11:11 PM UTC

dschuessler wrote: post #2

Continue [0] is open source and supports local models. I still haven't found time to try it out yet. If you host it in VSCodium [1], you would have pretty much what you asked for. [0] https://www.continue.dev/ [1] https://vscodium.com/

Great, even though it appears to work only with VS Code and JetBrains...

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#7

Post by ericrallen » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 2:39 AM UTC

fdeage wrote: post #5

ericrallen wrote: post #3

Void Editor[0] looks promising. [0]: https://voideditor.com/

It has a waitlist and appears to be a fork to VS Code... But I will give it a try!

You can run any OpenAI API-compatible local models via Ollama, LM Studio, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

#8

Post by dschuessler » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 9:03 AM UTC

fdeage wrote: post #6

dschuessler wrote: post #2

Continue [0] is open source and supports local models. I still haven't found time to try it out yet. If you host it in VSCodium [1], you would have pretty much what you asked for. [0] https://www.continue.dev/ [1] https://vscodium.com/

Great, even though it appears to work only with VS Code and JetBrains...

If your sibling comment is right, it also runs on VSCodium, which is a distribution of the free and open source parts of VSCode and not to be confused with VSCode itself.