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What I really want is to be able to run something like this locally for, say, less than $2000 in computer hardware. Is this feasible now or any time soon. Anyone out there using agents with local models for coding?
I'm really glad that emacs is integrating modern tooling like LSP and tree-sitter, now Claude Code, but this approach is showing its age. I'm an emacs user of 20 years and honestly it's getting hard to configure everything these days. Claude Code before the IDE integration was actually the easiest thing to get working (since it just worked and then auto-revert-mode keeps my buffers in sync.) I'm on a new MacOS instal…
>> I'm curious what emacs users are doing these days. Still using it because of the massive amount of customizations accumulated in a time span close to yours. I'm often tempted to switch, but if I look back, what other editor would have served me for ~20 years, mostly unchanged? I remember writing lots of macros for Visual Studio 6 and then Microsoft revamped the object system of their IDE with .NET. My understandin…
I'm curious how fluid that is. My experience with Emacs keybindings has been, well, variable to say the least. Maybe the vim-alike folks can make better experiences. Readline's emacs bindings are a bit lacking but still fairly good for day-to-day usage.
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I realize my definition is purely subjective in that I deal with Visual Studio and VS Code almost exclusively and that the VS Code team is instant that they make an editor and not IDE. For me an IDE has graphical tools for building UIs and other workflow items as well as language-specific compilers and tools built in. Like I said, subjective based on my experience (and my experience doesn't include Emacs).
Emacs is a text environment (which can also display images). It can also launch process and have IPC built in. So everything that works with text can be brought into emacs. And often, the only advantages of GUI is animation and aesthetics (to appeal to beginner). Text interfaces can be more productive.
Not only that - it supports PDFs (I annotate the books and papers in it), SVGs, variable fonts, emojis, even spreadsheets - yup, you can do Excel-like calculations; there are built-in browsers, etc. Besides, you can control music and video playback - useful when watching videos and taking notes, you can extract video transcripts, etc. etc. There even exists (albeit quite primitive) a video editor for Emacs.
I apologize for my ignorance in asking this question but is Emacs considered an IDE? I thought that was a term reserved for large, graphical editors like IntelliJ, Eclipse, or Visual Studio.
Emacs is practically an operating system (the vim joke being that it lacks a good editor). With git integration through magit, LSP server for language integration, and Projectile for project management, it very much acts like an IDE.
That joke was dumb from the beginning and has fallen into complete irrelevance years ago - Emacs actually can and does vim better than Vim, GVim, and Neovim, or any vim plugins for other IDEs. I'm saying this with a confidence of a die-hard, experienced vimmer.
This is awesome. I love emacs and I love integrating AI into my coding work flow. What I really want is to be able to run something like this locally for, say, less than $2000 in computer hardware. Is this feasible now or any time soon. Anyone out there using agents with local models for coding?
This is awesome. I love emacs and I love integrating AI into my coding work flow. What I really want is to be able to run something like this locally for, say, less than $2000 in computer hardware. Is this feasible now or any time soon. Anyone out there using agents with local models for coding?
A lot of people are excited about the Qwen3-Coder family of models: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-coder-687fc861...
For running locally, there are tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Your hardware needs will fluctuate depending on what size/quantization of model you try to run, but 2k in hardware cost is reasonable for running a lot of models. Some people have good experiences using the M-series Macs, which is probably a good bang-for-buck if you're exclusively interested in inference.
I'd recommend checking out the LocalLlamas subreddit for more: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
Getting results on par with big labs isn't feasible, but if you prefer to run everything locally, it is a fun and doable project.
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cannot afford to fuck around, go for the jugular every day Slow your roll. Nothing you write will matter in six months.
Can't speak for you friend, but I got my ass kicked through a combination of the hiring freezes and absorbing a bunch of famiku-wide expenses around a nasty bereavement like, right before that and got pretty much wiped out. Having been very well off (to put it mildly) from like, 2010-2023, I was pretty unclear on the fact that going broke is straight up existential now in a way that was not true ten or fifteen years…
signed:
someone who was broke fifteen years ago and has been stacking cash on hand ever since.
I’ve always thought emacs is the ultimate editor for AI agents. The agent has so much access to the state of the editor itself and can even easily change editor behavior with elisp. I feel like editors which expose the level of customization like vim and emacs could potentially have a huge advantage.
They always have had. It just depends on what people perceive to be advantageous. For me, VSCode's and IntelliJ's closed model for extensibility is a huge downside.
By "closed" I mean - restrictive plugin APIs, sandboxed execution environment, corporate gatekeeping, opaque core, etc.
I don't even try to "shop for more features" anymore, learning Emacs allows me to remain "goal-oriented", and more often than not, it enables me to get the shit done in a far more satisfactory manner. Meanwhile, almost every time I switch to IDEs, I hit some limitations. It's not even "skill-issue" or unfamiliarity, I do remember my days of using IntelliJ, of which I was a devoted user for almost a decade. The way how I solve problems with Emacs, is just not even close.
While I'm happy that simultaneously there are at least 5 known Emacs/Claude Code integration packages, with seemingly 2 or 3 battling it out on Reddit and elsewhere, I feel like the best implemented one is the quiet one that no one has ever talked about. https://github.com/yuya373/claude-code-emacs <- it literally implements every feature that every other ones have.
It doesn’t look like that had the /ide integration that Claude-code-ide has
Like LSP and tree-sitter, I think AI coding tools like Claude Code or Aider are very good news for niche editors like Emacs or Vim. Instead of struggling about implementing advanced IDE-like features, they can integrate with these tools relatively easily, and focus on other editing related features that set them apart. In fact, IMO it makes these editors more competitive because they are highly customizable and easie…
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