I loved vscode, but recently performance has been horrible like during right our in middle of longer agentic development. Call out to zed, please include Jupyter notebook views. Only reason i use vscode is for opening ipynb files.
VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
71–79 of 79 posts
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are very performant and capable options like SublimeText out there https://www.sublimetext.com/
How is Sublime's plugin ecosystem these days? I'd love to move back to it (or rather, use it for dev work beyond opening large log files to search for things), or atleast have it as a backup for vscode's inevitable enshittification.
which sublimetext are you talking about? SublimeText 2, SublimeText 3, or SublimeText 4 which is unreleased but that you can download?
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would not be surprised if the market share breakdown is similar to browsers (eg 70+ percent - more if you ignore that safari is the only real option on iOS). VSCode has slowly been getting more and more bloated, but the alternatives are all very meh or are missing crucial extensions.
Out of curiousity, what is an example of a crucial extension alternatives are missing?
If you do embedded development, things like https://platformio.org/platformio-ide, but also smaller, nice to have extensions for auto-deploying code to cloud providers, etc.
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
While Emacs can run in a terminal, it is more widely used as a GUI application that can render images, PDFs, variable-pitch fonts, handle mouse support (drag-and-drop, menus, scrollbars), and even work on touchscreens such as on Android [1]. You are right that VS Code has a "nicer" out of the box UX (this is subjective of course), but Emacs offers a malleable environment. In VS Code, you are limited to what the APIs…
Thanks, it's been so very long since I've tried emacs. I remember I didn't like how it looked. So I used vim instead. (There was no vscode back then.) So I never did give it much of a try. Emacs might be a solid editor choice but my intuition is that it probably won't be worth it for the same reason LiteXL wasn't for me. If I do work on adding features to my editor I think I'd be more comfortable doing it in js, html…
Actually there are plenty of packages already which can near Emacs to VSC or Sublime in look and feel, and imho go circles around the 2 in functionality.
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#75VSCodium is the open source VSCxxx editor.
https://underjord.io/the-best-parts-of-visual-studio-code-ar...
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, it's been so very long since I've tried emacs. I remember I didn't like how it looked. So I used vim instead. (There was no vscode back then.) So I never did give it much of a try. Emacs might be a solid editor choice but my intuition is that it probably won't be worth it for the same reason LiteXL wasn't for me. If I do work on adding features to my editor I think I'd be more comfortable doing it in js, html…
Actually there are plenty of packages already which can near Emacs to VSC or Sublime in look and feel, and imho go circles around the 2 in functionality.
Care to link to those? I looked and all I found was this:
https://github.com/DevelopmentCool2449/visual-emacs
Which didn't really impress me terribly much.
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiousity, what is an example of a crucial extension alternatives are missing?
If you do embedded development, things like https://platformio.org/platformio-ide , but also smaller, nice to have extensions for auto-deploying code to cloud providers, etc.
To me that sounds like claiming Arduino IDE is a "crucial extension". Their website[1] lists a bunch of IDEs where it can be integrated, so I wouldn't call it missing. That said both of these are hobbyist toys to make it more approachable and embedded development was fine long before VSCode, they're in no way "crucial".
[1]: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/integration/ide/index....
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually there are plenty of packages already which can near Emacs to VSC or Sublime in look and feel, and imho go circles around the 2 in functionality.
Care to link to those? I looked and all I found was this: https://github.com/DevelopmentCool2449/visual-emacs Which didn't really impress me terribly much.
I don’t know them, because I do not like VSC and co. I just have a friend, and when I see his Emacs looks like sublime. Is some work to get it to look like that.
Re: VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"
#79This type of branding makes it impossible to find products lately. I was recently looking for embedded analytics platforms (and was willing to pay), but the search became incredibly frustrating as every database or analytics tool now brands itself as some AI first thing. The landing pages no longer help me figure out what they do, which I guess is good for raising investor money but I'm sure it can't be good for real…
I am in the embedded analytics space, so it caught my eyes :D what are u looking for in a platform?