| ▲ | nasretdinov 5 hours ago |
| - A new "AI" IDE announced - It's VS Code Like clockwork! |
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| ▲ | linhns 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is why I have much respect for the Zed team as they are chasing originality, not just slap something onto VS Code and call it a new IDE. |
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| ▲ | mbesto 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If both work equally well then why does it matter whether Zed or VSCode is under the hood? | |
| ▲ | Demiurge 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I love Zed code. Sad that Sublime Text is not keeping up. | | |
| ▲ | the__alchemist 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | These are two of the fastest editors, and I use both, but I don't think they're for the same thing: Zed is for multi-file projects with moderate IDE abstractions (Worse than Jetbrains; better than most others); Sublime is for editing one-off files with syntax highlighting. | |
| ▲ | kayart_dev 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | On the contrary, I am glad that the Sublime team did not fall for the trends and avoided adding AI slop into the editor |
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| ▲ | asadm 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > VSCode You mean Chromium wrapper? |
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| ▲ | mpeg 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's also an absolutely basic fork. They haven't even bothered with a custom theme, or custom UI, it's just vscode with an agents window slapped on top. Weirdly, out of all the vscode forks the best UI is probably bytedance's TRAE |
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| ▲ | IncreasePosts 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is the extension system in VSCode not powerful enough to make these just normal extensions for a vanilla VSCode executable? Or is everyone just going for lock in, since if you download MyFork, you can't start using some other extension that uses OtherGuysModel? |
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| ▲ | jamie_ca 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Back when Cursor was new (before literally everything was AI hype) they explicitly called out that they wanted to do more in-depth integration with the editor than was possible with just the extension APIs. Presumably that hasn't changed much. If you want to do any large-scale edits of the UI you need to spin up a fork. | |
| ▲ | threetonesun 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Correct. One could say the same thing for browsers. I suppose on the one hand it's good that it's relatively easy to spin up a new project like this, on the other hand one must swear allegiance to their large software company of choice. |
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| ▲ | jakebasile 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How many forks of VS Code am I supposed to have installed at this point? |
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| ▲ | zamadatix 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You'll need a Chromium based app to count the installs for you. | |
| ▲ | 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | My YC2026 startups are an AI agent that automatically manages your VSCode forks, and a public safety computer vision app for smart glasses that predicts whether someone can afford a lawyer based on their skin color | | |
| ▲ | collingreen 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | They'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies: - ai therapist for your ai agents - genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives - prompt engineering as a service - social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster - vector db but actually json for some reason (Edit: formatting) | | |
| ▲ | bblb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives AI Agent Orchestration Battle Bots. Old school VMs are the brute tanks just slowly ramming everybody off the field. A swarm of erratically behaving lightweight K8s Pods madly slicing and dicing everything coming on their way. Winner takes control of the host capacity. I might need this in my life. | |
| ▲ | whstl 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Don't forget there's 2 or 3 of each in YC2026. |
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