Mastodawn

Keeping eyes open for alternatives to #vscode.

Ran into #EclipseTheia. Opened up the web page.

"Guys guys guys this is an #AI NATIVE IDE!"

🤦🏻‍♀️ It's like every other bloody IDE, then. Why is this the only thing front and center? Oh wait, *the industry.*

...In moments like this, I wish I could just enter the Konami code and the website would switch from "trying to impress the Management" mode to "developer who is actually interested of the actual features" mode.

It's like when I was a kid and the 8-bit microcomputers all had *awesome games* and the marketing material, aimed at the people who made the purchase decisions, was like "home computers have a wide variety of uses, you can keep track of the contents of the fridge... or something". And the parents were like "ooo, fridge tracking. We must evaluate these based on this important criterion."

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trampinheavy 1d ago

@umbraroze
Hi, can I borrow a few moments of your time to talk about Neovim?

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Yesterday's Rose 1d ago

@trampinheavy 😄 Already have Helix, also trying to improve my Emacs setup. VSCode is for codebases that got huge or something.

@umbraroze
vscodium?

@trampinheavy Might switch to that if the bot nonsense keeps getting worse. Worried about some stuff though, like the fact that pylance etc aren't open source and MS is apparently trying to do their darnest to not allow them to run on vscodium.

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emberquill

1d ago

@umbraroze @trampinheavy the choice of name is weird, but I've found that basedpyright has been a serviceable replacement for Pylance that's available on open-vsx for VSCodium. Or you can install some combination of linter and type checker that doesn't rely on either.

It's worth trying. And you can install VSCodium and VSCode side-by-side and they keep their configs completely separate. So you can have VSCodium for general use and VSCode for the "dammit, I need proprietary Microsoft crap" moments while you're still figuring out which alternatives work.