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Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by ferfumarma » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

Why mit license?

If gpl is a blocker for users then offer them a paid license with the exceptions they want. But MIT allows a commercial entity to ingest your code, close source it, and commercialize it .

GPL-3 (with the option of custom commercial licenses) seems strictly superior to MIT in this respect. Can you help me understand why this choice is so popular?

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by unit149 » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by mjrbds » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 3:03 PM UTC

I've been using this. Super useful, much better to avoid flipping between agents

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by yagizdegirmenci » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC

Congrats on the launch!

How does it compare to [0]Superset?

[0]: https://superset.sh

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by twocommits » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 5:11 PM UTC

Yawn. "Agentic bla bla" seems to be the current new "Here's my *-lang.org" thing...

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by arnestrickmann » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

mjrbds wrote: post #73

I've been using this. Super useful, much better to avoid flipping between agents

Great to hear!

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by MustafaYenler » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 6:29 PM UTC

Love the fact that I can seamlessly switch between Codex for heavy backend stuff and Claude code for everything else.

Soon Gemini for Frontend.

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by elysianfields » Wed, Feb 25, 2026, 9:17 PM UTC

What would be really great is a ability to run emdash simply served on localhost instead of the electron bundling ("emdash server" in the terminal).

That way I can access it from my browser.

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by das-bikash-dev » Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 12:47 PM UTC

the worktree isolation per agent is clever. i've been running claude code as my sole dev partner on a production platform (10 repos) and the biggest unlock was treating context as infrastructure — curated reference docs the agent reads on-demand rather than dumping everything into context. re: the longevity question in the thread — i think the orchestration layer stays relevant as long as you're coordinating across repos/services, not just within a single codebase.

Re: Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment

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Post by snowhale » Thu, Feb 26, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

onecommit wrote: post #22

snowhale wrote: post #20

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interesting! hadn't looked into sparse checkout before, but will do now. Initial thoughts are that sparse might be risky if we lose some arbitrary files that might be relevant context for the coding agents. Will look into this!

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