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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

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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.

Hey Creator of Sidex, I just updated the Read me to be alot clearer would love your feedback on it to help clear the air

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

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> Goal: 200mb RAM usage This is why Zed is great but I just can't get used to the debugger experience so I end up back in VSCode.

Yes, but the idea is to have all of VS Code Extensions working as well, which is what Zed doesn’t have. There are just too many Extensions that people would like to use but on a less usage.

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

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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?

Probably. But it’s happening at all levels. Legacy companies like Microsoft or Apple are very interested to associate themselves with AI, but not so interested in actually developing good, useful AI products. There’s marketing material for Apple Intelligence translated to my native language, even though it’s not even accessible when using that language.

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

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Not op but there is a lot of details about VS code including electron that could have been done better.

That can be said about any project. And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.

I think the exact opposite, this why alternatives like Zed is taking off.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That can be said about any project. And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.

I think the exact opposite, this why alternatives like Zed is taking off.

Did Zed fix font rendering on low dpi resolution yet? I figured if they couldn't fix such a basic functionality for any editor, for over a year, while pushing AI to please stakeholders, they weren't worth my time. And I question their priorities even if they finally fixed it.

And did they implement debugger support?

When I need a barebones editor I reach for Sublime which doesn't market themselves as something else.

As for Zed taking off, I see a lot of vocals in some niche communities but they barely register, if at all, in large annual surveys.

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