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"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
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Beyond VSCodium (which I have switched to since this news), what are everyone’s favorite alternatives that are easy to switch to?
I say easy to switch to because no one is jumping to Vim or whatever on this news. I don’t mean to offend the deeply Linuxed, but they aren’t.
Zed is an option. Just trying it out myself now after this fiasco.
I switched to Emacs (Doom Emacs for ok defaults) years ago and more recently went from that to Neovim (Lazyvim, also for defaults)
Learning (basic) Vim keybindings once is honestly a time saver compared to learning lots of editor-specific stuff.
The last time I tried vscodium the devcontainers support was very poor. That is the main thing keeping me on vscode.
lapce feels like vscode but is built from scratch in rust iirc. lapce.dev
AstroNvim is nice. It's an opinionated and pre-configured nvim distro, so you don't have to spend as much time finding the right plugins and configurations.
I'm seriously thinking about going back to VIM. At this point the only thing holding me back is that I like the file tree view of GUI tools. It's not much.
I looked into "lightweight" alternative, but their PR and "features" make them seems almost worst than vscode. Zed in particular; people praise it for being "simple", but the biggest upside seems to be "GPU accelerated" and "not as sluggish as vscode" which, ok, I guess, but I don't think an IDE needs to be GPU accelerated and vscode don't feel sluggish at all even on my modest first gen NUC so…
Lmao, of course nobody is jumping to Vim. We're all on NeoVim now.
Unrelated to this, I've been having issues with VSCode, that also showed up in VSCodium. I've been on old school vim with Konsole terminal tiling and honestly I'm not sure if I want to go back anymore. I'm learning new git tools every day, I'm keeping myself decluttered, and I'm wasting less time tinkering.
Vim/Konsole are an Apples to Oranges comparison. Modern TUIs are closer in feature parity. Personally I use Zellij with NeoVim and LazyVim as the base config. If you use an LLM, customization becomes easier.
Personal preferences are personal preferences though if VSCode is working for you.
That's my point. They're not apples and oranges. A terminal basically always has feature parity with any other tool you want to use.
I may finally give Pulsar a go (a maintained Atom fork).
I really missed Atom when it died.
I was many years user of JetBrains stuff. Tried vscode multiple times and last time I checked it was full Microsoft bullshit.
Finally I settled with Zed. It’s amazing. Still has some missing features but overall great experience once you set it all up to your liking.
Maybe KDE's Kate. It's available for everything with a mouse and keyboard and works just fine. Not as ultra fancy as Codium, but if you need a quick and easy text editor that isn't all Electron bells and whistles... Kate.
Kate is nice but it's annoying to use with direnv/nix devshells unfortunately