Is this really "open source"? Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?
> Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?
This is not what open source means.
Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
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Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Extracting from cursor team [1] > VSCode extensions have very limited control over the UI of the editor. Our Command-K and Copilot++ features aren’t possible as extensions. Same for much of what we want to build in the future! [1] https://forum.cursor.com/t/why-not-a-plugin/2448/2
I don't fancy a future of multiple diverging VSCode forks. I wonder if they could have created a "Super Plugin" interface instead of a Cursor specific fork and try to get it merged to VSCode or VSCodium or at least keep as a new shared platform for deep customisation instead of balkanisation by everyone interested in doing something similar.
This is just Eclipse Theia plugins. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if this project is actually Eclipse Theia based
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
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#124> All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..) I don't know about VS Code, but I remember Atom was refactored to use manual DOM updates because the performance penalty of using React wasn't worth it.[1] By the way, isn't OOP by far the most popular paradigm for building desktop UIs? I imagine VS Code is a difficult codebase to work with that h…
Always interesting to hear such claims when graphic editors like Penpot, which have much tighter perf requirements than editors, are so fast while using React.
How do you implement a text editor?
I think a lot of people don't consider how complex text editors are and then there are the complexities of an IDE, or extensions, to be able to interact with it.
ropes? gap buffers? https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
how vscode does it,
- https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#125Is this really "open source"? Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?
> Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection? This is not what open source means.
Well, of course, open source would mean that you can also download all the training data and re-do the training yourself.
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#126Is this really "open source"? Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection?
If I create an MIT licensed RSS reader, distribute it on GitHub for everyone.
That's open source, just because you need an internet connection doesn't preclude the 'open-source'-ness right.
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can I download all source code and run it locally without internet connection? This is not what open source means.
Well, of course, open source would mean that you can also download all the training data and re-do the training yourself.
> open source would mean that you can also download all the training data and re-do the training yourself
I don't think so.. Utilizing another data source, does not mean they're required, or even permitted in a lot of cases, to distribute that with their software/service.
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#128there is also PearAI - "The Open Source AI-Powered Code Editor. A fork of VSCode and Continue." [0]. It's getting very crowded in this space: cursor.sh, continue.dev, double.bot, supermaven, codium.ai, PearAI and now Void.
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A lot of folks prefer JetBrains over VSC. For example my top choice for an AI Editor today is Zed.dev which lets you trivially setup to use a variety of key maps including JetBrains. https://zed.dev/
Zed looks promising, I'm waiting on editorconfig support PR to drop
Zed is very fast but has a long way to go still.
ssh server is still in early stages, not even p2p yet.
The requirement for extensions to be built in rust only makes it harder to adopt.
When they these 2 things get solved and the editor remains fast, it might actually be very tempting to replace vscode with zed.
Vscode is fantastic but tends to become bloated quickly....
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Always interesting to hear such claims when graphic editors like Penpot, which have much tighter perf requirements than editors, are so fast while using React.
How do you implement a text editor? I think a lot of people don't consider how complex text editors are and then there are the complexities of an IDE, or extensions, to be able to interact with it. ropes? gap buffers? https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r... how vscode does it, - https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
I'm not saying text editors are on the last place in terms of perf requirements.
I'm just saying, that general graphics editors is above that and do just fine with React.