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Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
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#162When I see "Waitlist" and "Discord" on a website, my immediate reaction is to close the tab and forget about the project.
And well, complain about it on hn obviously.
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#163The repository contains the full source code but there's a waitlist to download? Why?
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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.
Personally I prefer more forks and new editors. Leaving everything in Microsoft’s hands limits how quickly core features can be added. Let the best editor win.
The issue is that the forks don't have the resources to focus on the security issues as they come up, and as the fork gets further and further away from the main project it becomes harder to merge the changes from the main project.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you've tried others, would love to understand if there's anything you didn't like specifically (I'm one of the creators for https://double.bot )
I ended up actually not trying double.bot - overall I tried only cursor.sh (first with BYOK and now subscriber) and continue.dev (didn't manage to integrate own key from OpenRouter in JetBrains plugin). For me in the beginning one of the selling point is if I can bring my own key (ideally with GUI setup instead of some config file and working with OpenRouter key). Then if something is open source is also a selling po…
Just added 'build a new landing page' to my to-do, appreciate the feedback!
Anything else we could do to make double.bot a more compelling option for you?
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Are you using a local model with Continue?
I've tried running 3B LLAMA on my old machine and it was sluggish and kinda bad, but Claude 3.5 Sonnet works great. I will try the 70B model, should be good enough.
I didn't have much success with ollama either. You really need a great accelerator for it to be useful enough. Codestral however is working out great so thanks for the tip.
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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....
The tradeoffs are certainly there. I'm expecting it to be a viable switch in a year or two.
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#168As someone who has recently tried to refactor our app atop of VSCode (treating it like a platform), we got burned by the UI design decisions that are not straightforward to overcome, let alone maintain. The closed-source MS marketplace did not help either towards our OSS goals. However, I found Theia ( https://theia-ide.org ) on HN (like a bunch of other cool things; this is one way I justify the time I spend/sink on…
Is Theia related to Eclipse (the traditional Java IDE)? Or is the reference to "eclipse" just an unfortunate naming collision?
It's made by Eclipse Foundation which was created to host projects around Eclipse the IDE. Kind of like project under Apache brand, Apache foundation and Apache the HTTP server.