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Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

#81
post #36

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

We did a smaller launch a few days ago, but we've actually made a lot of changes to our github contributing page, website, logo since then (based on the feedback). Just trying to ship fast, haha.

Doesn't sound like it warrants another post.

Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

#83

Genuine question: why don’t you started from VSCodium if the the VSCode is too much hassle to deal with?

Isn't VSCodium built from the same source code as VSCode? Excluding a few proprietary things Microsoft puts into the official binaries.

Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

#86
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did a smaller launch a few days ago, but we've actually made a lot of changes to our github contributing page, website, logo since then (based on the feedback). Just trying to ship fast, haha.

Doesn't sound like it warrants another post.

Given that this one is getting traction, I think it indeed warranted another post.

Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

#88

Oh, 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.

Aider is AI pair programming in your terminal.

Aider lets you pair program with LLMs, to edit code in your local git repository. Start a new project or work with an existing git repo. Aider works best with GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet and can connect to almost any LLM.

https://aider.chat/

See LLM Leaderboards as well: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

#89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

How large?

In use, treesitter-derived approach seems far effective than rag.

Re: Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

#90

Why is this a Show HN not a launch HN? Is it simply a concept and not yet fleshed out? Hard sell to choose you especially as a full on editor replacement (as well as a copilot replacement) without a demo or even gifs.

Waitlist.
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