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SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

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Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#21
post #9

Quoting from the README: > The entire VSCode workbench - editor, terminal, extensions, themes, keybindings — ported to run on a native shell. but also > Many workbench features are stubbed or partially implemented So which is it? The README needs to be clearer about what is aspirational, what is done, and what is out of scope. Right now it just looks like an LLM soup.

The first sentence is aspirational, while the second is describing current state.

See I thought that, but then in the putatively aspirational section it says

> 5,600+ TypeScript files from VSCode's source, ported and adapted

which doesn't really make sense as a goal?

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#22

Vibe coded UI translation with a conflicting README and no screenshots? Is this what it takes to get onto HN front page?

It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important. It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes. Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.

Maybe I'm being too conspiratorial, but I just can't believe that the feverish hype around AI on HN is completely natural.

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#24
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important. It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes. Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.

Maybe I'm being too conspiratorial, but I just can't believe that the feverish hype around AI on HN is completely natural.

The graveyard of LLM-generated comments from new accounts on the bottom of every thread supports your hypothesis.

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#25

Vibe coded UI translation with a conflicting README and no screenshots? Is this what it takes to get onto HN front page?

It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important. It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes. Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.

Paraphrasing.

> There’s a new kind of coding I call “hype coding”, where you fully give in to the hype, embrace exponentials, and forget that the product even exists.

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#26
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important. It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes. Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.

Maybe I'm being too conspiratorial, but I just can't believe that the feverish hype around AI on HN is completely natural.

Honestly, at least 50% of it is natural. Personally I don't use AI, but its emergence was highly eye-opening for me.

I personally like both the process and the result in software development. Painstakingly designing things, writing them, and seeing that everything is working as it should be very smoothly, efficiently and fast. It's like building an engine by hand, tuning it, listening and feeling that it works as its best version within your capabilities. Then taking notes of the noises and inefficiencies and iterating upon them as the time allows.

Many people are not like that. They want an engine that works. Its efficiency, appearance or inherent reliability due to elegant design doesn't matter for them. If it works reasonably well, carries the builder from A to B (or more importantly makes money for the them), that's more than enough.

I personally respect this point of view, and completely understand it. What I can't respect or accept, regardless of how hard I try to, is being stoned to death or labeled as a Luddite because I and people with similar perspectives value a different set of things in their lives.

Mass produced things have their place, as well as artisanal, one-off ones. I believe we can live together, one doesn't need to kill the other.

I won't go into building of these AI systems, because I'm tired of repeating ethical and other concerns going into it, not because it's boring, but because people don't listen or care about them. Maybe I'll reiterate them when I have more time, next time.

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#27

Vibe coded UI translation with a conflicting README and no screenshots? Is this what it takes to get onto HN front page?

It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important. It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes. Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.

> to Rust

Not even to rust, really. This is still >95% typescript in a web view...

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#28
post #6

What a world we live in where 200mb RAM usage for a text editor is considered "lightweight".

This likely takes 500mb+ RAM, TFA probably didn't account for tauri://localhost in their calculation, which by itself takes 200mb+ RAM. Then your app process will take 100mb+ RAM, and there will be a couple of other processes besides.

Tauri is no better than electron in terms of RAM, just like people calling it "lightweight" are no better than flat earthers. Let's hope they come around.

Re: SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code

#29
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's completely vibe-coded with AI. That's hip. Works or not, fulfills its promises or not, that's not important. It's vibe-coded, with AI, to Rust. That's enough. Ticks all boxes. Just half-joking, BTW. Hype is hell of a drug.

Maybe I'm being too conspiratorial, but I just can't believe that the feverish hype around AI on HN is completely natural.

I think it's like a lot of things - partially unnatural but it worked up enough people who hype it naturally. I know someone irl who's all into infodumping LLM jargon now and afaik has no monetary/investment incentive for it.
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