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I am a die hard VIM user. VIM is a text editor, not an IDE. You can I many D tools into it's E, but it remains a text editor with disparate tools.
What is there in an IDE today, that is missing from (n)vim? With the advent of DAP and LSP servers, I can't find anything that I would use a "proper" IDE for.
I see a lot of confused comments blaming Microsoft, so to clarify: This analysis is about TRAE, a ByteDance IDE that was forked from VSCode: https://www.trae.ai/
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> We need to bring back shaming and social isolation HN is not your army, and it isn’t a theater of ideological battle. Please don’t do that here.
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What is there in an IDE today, that is missing from (n)vim? With the advent of DAP and LSP servers, I can't find anything that I would use a "proper" IDE for.
- debuggers - popup context windows for docs (kind of there, but having to respect the default character grid makes them much less capable and usually they don't allow further interaction) - contextual buttons on a line of code (sure, custom commands exist, but they're not discoverable) - "minimap"
Popup context windows for docs are super good in neovim, I would make a bet that they are actually better than what you find in IDEs, because they can use treesitter for automatic syntax highlighting of example code. Not sure what you mean with further interaction.
Contextual buttons are named code actions, and are available, and there are like 4 minimap plugins to choose from.
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Spying and telemetry is not something specific to Bytedance. Example: Google ? Or Microsoft ? Why is it a problem only when it is Bytedance or Huawei ? For the exact same activity In fact the Chinese entities are even less likely to share your secrets to your governement than their best friends at Google
No one in the chain of comments you are replying to has mentioned anything about Google, and on HackerNews you will find the majority sentiment is against spying in all forms - especially by Google, Meta, etc. Even if we interact with your rhetoric[1] at face value, there is a big difference between data going to your own elected government versus that of a foreign adversary. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatabo…
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> We need to bring back shaming and social isolation HN is not your army, and it isn’t a theater of ideological battle. Please don’t do that here.
I certainly think "hacker" implies quite a bit of ideology, and this site has substantial ideological leanings.
I’d be happy to email mods if you think they can tell you better. I’m no authority or guide, as my own comment history shows. I’m not better than you, or who I am replying to. I say this because I care to have a discussion that (only?) HN can enable. We can backbite anywhere (else) online, but the folks who created HN made it for something else, and arguably something greater.
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Every single piece of telemetry sent over the internet includes PII - the IP address of the sender - by virtue of how our internet protocols are designed.
At least spiritually not if the traffic is routed over a Tor circuit. :-)
So many US universities running such nodes, without ever getting legal troubles. Such lucky boys
I see a lot of confused comments blaming Microsoft, so to clarify: This analysis is about TRAE, a ByteDance IDE that was forked from VSCode: https://www.trae.ai/
Arguably it was Microsoft who started the whole trend of calling spyware "telemetry" to obfuscate what they were doing.
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Telemetry isn't the same thing as spying on the user. People use it because it's not actually spying on them.
Anonymized or not, opt-out telemetry is plain spying. Go was about to find out, and they backed out the last millisecond and converted to opt-in, for example.
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Arguably it was Microsoft who started the whole trend of calling spyware "telemetry" to obfuscate what they were doing.
Obfuscate? Telemetry arguably helps with deobfuscation.
Can you please expand on that? I have trouble understanding how telemetry helps me, as a user of the product, understand how the product works.