Seems to be a dupe of another Show HN post posted by the same user 4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41523197
A practice that is considered perfectly cromulent!
Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
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#52Why are so many coding assistant forks? Is it fashion or is there a technical reason? Imagine Python support being a fork. Or live server.
Because it's hard to reimplement VSCode from scratch?
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#53Do you need to "own" the whole editor to do what you're doing? Just maintaining sync with upstream is a massive rod for your own back, and I don't see what you gain. As others have said, alternative registries exist, and installation instructions of standalone plugins are easier on users than downloading and installing a whole editor.
Can't you just do your own "Copilot" extension and plumb in an instance to ollama? Isn't that what Continue does? https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Continue...
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#54Oh, I’m yet to find a good alternative to Cursor’s RAG-powered side chat. It helps me work with huge codebases so much. Tried Continue, but it’s very unstable, and doesn’t work as well. Would prefer a command line solution, vscode plugin is the next choice, having a separate editor is not ideal, but I’m glad there’s some competition.
> Would prefer a command line solution
I haven't tried this myself so I apologize if it ends up being bad, but I've seen Aider [0] get linked a few times from people who wanted a CLI solution for AI code completion.
[0]: https://aider.chat/
Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#55Oh, I’m yet to find a good alternative to Cursor’s RAG-powered side chat. It helps me work with huge codebases so much. Tried Continue, but it’s very unstable, and doesn’t work as well. Would prefer a command line solution, vscode plugin is the next choice, having a separate editor is not ideal, but I’m glad there’s some competition.
> Would prefer a command line solution I haven't tried this myself so I apologize if it ends up being bad, but I've seen Aider [0] get linked a few times from people who wanted a CLI solution for AI code completion. [0]: https://aider.chat/
Aider is really cool for small projects, but it builds a repo map instead of using RAG. That works on small codebases, but totally fails to be useful on large ones.
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#57Oh, I’m yet to find a good alternative to Cursor’s RAG-powered side chat. It helps me work with huge codebases so much. Tried Continue, but it’s very unstable, and doesn’t work as well. Would prefer a command line solution, vscode plugin is the next choice, having a separate editor is not ideal, but I’m glad there’s some competition.
Not sure if this is what you'd like, but I remember this repo from some time ago https://github.com/Storia-AI/sage Storia-AI/sage: Chat with any codebase with 2 commands
Thanks for the suggestion! It needs some work to set up, and it looks like it only works on Github repos. Also, to work with non-local LLMs, you can only use Pinecone for vector storage. I might have misunderstood something, but I will check it out again later.
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#58This is cool! I'm a regular user of Cursor (I barely write any code now - just prompt and tab tab tab). The thing that's really keeping me in Cursor (vs decamping for Zed) is NOT the Cmd K or the sidebar chat. It's actual Cursor's Tab autocomplete model. I've tried many other tab completion models and Cursor Tab blows them out of the water. Supermaven's new release is promising, however. For the use-case you're solvi…
Yeah, I have not given enough time and did so yesterday; it suggests new parameters for example, so I only have to begin a "refactoring" and then tab tab... Vim guys are missing out.
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#59Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
#60Do you need to "own" the whole editor to do what you're doing? Just maintaining sync with upstream is a massive rod for your own back, and I don't see what you gain. As others have said, alternative registries exist, and installation instructions of standalone plugins are easier on users than downloading and installing a whole editor. Can't you just do your own "Copilot" extension and plumb in an instance to ollama?…
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