SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by linzhangrun » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 7:48 AM UTC

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

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Post by hokkos » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 7:53 AM UTC

The worst thing about Tauri is people gaslighting about it being more efficient. No you just save on 150MB of download and install size. And you trade that for risk of incompabilities and breaking. The last thing I want for an editor I use 8h a day.

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

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Post by vineyardmike » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 7:56 AM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #10

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

Don't worry, at least it has a discord server linked.

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

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Post by ipmanlk » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC

I don't think it's worth it with the sheer amount of issues you will run into on Mac and Linux. There is a reason why lot of Tauri apps are being rewritten in Electron.

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

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Post by littlestymaar » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #10

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

It seems so, as it also describe every single “show HN” project that I've seen on the front page for the past 5 months or so.

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

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Post by woadwarrior01 » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 8:18 AM UTC

> Goal: 200mb RAM usage.

We've come such a long way from: "Eighty Megs and Constantly Swapping" :D

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

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Post by elashri » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

exitb wrote: post #25

bayindirh wrote: post #20

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.

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.

Isn't this basically what was happening with most of our personal projects coming from ideas that we found very interesting and then forget that we ever thought about it?

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

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Post by Alexzoofficial » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 10:26 AM UTC

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

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Post by gigatexal » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

dzogchen wrote: post #3

gigatexal wrote: post #2

Good. I’m glad. It’s a great editor but the whole electron backend is so bloated.

What are you glad about exactly? This seems to be another big bang rewrite with LLMs. Fun but extremely unlikely to go anywhere.

I want a vscode port to native. think zed but with the rich ecosystem.

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

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Post by KendallCBooker » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #10

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

Hey Creator of Sidex, I just updated the ReadMe,

Old one I didn't put any Time into I was more focus on getting it stable