Why the completely generic name, with meaning unrelated in any way to editors?
Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative
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#92You mention refactoring. Do you hope to be able to merge new VScode improvements as they arise, or is this a hard fork that will diverge from VSCode from now on?
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#93I think more competition in the "AI Editor" space is good, but I have to ask – why not make it a VSCode extension? I feel it'd be much more accessible. Are there limitations in the extension APIs that make it hard to implement?
Because it's difficult to monetize extensions and justify a large VC valuation... (Void is HN backed)
Are you HN backed when your Show HN gets over 200 votes?
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
>5k source files. They don't fit into the context. I know I can limit what is sent, and I can attach files in the Aider chat myself. But this is not perfect for making an LLM answer questions about a codebase when I don't know much context beforehand. With Cursor, I can just do "@codebase How is a %feature% implemented?", and it's very quick and often helpful with a couple of follow-ups.
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#95So early stage that we can't download it? Why would I want to join a discord server for a code editor?
What is the plan when VS Code introduces all your features?
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
VSCode has plugins
They are making changes that cannot be done or are very difficult with vscode extensions
What might they be? API calls, read all files, write to files, side bar, UI interactions in editor. These are things I would imagine an extension can do. Continue.dev is an example.
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#98My projects aren’t super complicated and just mostly Python/flask/htmx/html templates. I started with cursor during their free trial so I got the 500 sonnet prompts and it was pretty awesome. Then that ended and the remaining “free” models were fairly lacking.
So I went a’hunting, and settled on the Codeium vscode plug-in free plan which while not as good as cursor/sonnet combination but is quite capable and their “free” models are capable enough for what I am working on (believe they even use a llama 3.1 model— I think they have various models, but left it on the “base model” and it’s been pretty good)
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#99Oh, 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/
Thanks! I use Aider with Claude 3.5 Sonnet on smaller projects sometimes, and it's really fun and helpful when it can put a whole repo map into the LLM's context.
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#100I think more competition in the "AI Editor" space is good, but I have to ask – why not make it a VSCode extension? I feel it'd be much more accessible. Are there limitations in the extension APIs that make it hard to implement?
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