Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

1. void

   1 10 18,178 10.0 TypeScript

   

   Well the code is there: https://github.com/voideditor/void/tree/main/extensions/void

2. Civic Auth

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3. zed

   2 160 58,244 10.0 Rust

   Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

   

   Try Zed at https://zed.dev (see also https://zed.dev/blog/zed-ai)

   I've not used Cursor myself, but I think the Zed AI integration is similar if not better, and you can use local LLMs too.

4. windsurf.vim

   3 42 4,863 6.3 Vim Script

   Free, ultrafast Copilot alternative for Vim and Neovim

   

   This is cool! I'm a regular user of Cursor (I barely write any code now - just prompt and tab tab tab).

   The thing that's really keeping me in Cursor (vs decamping for Zed) is NOT the Cmd K or the sidebar chat. It's actual Cursor's Tab autocomplete model. I've tried many other tab completion models and Cursor Tab blows them out of the water. Supermaven's new release is promising, however.

   For the use-case you're solving for (issues with code-privacy), I think something like https://codeium.com/ does already allow for on-prem deployments with enterprise support. I'm trying to think of who would be served well by a fork of VSCode vs Continue.dev or something like a codeium VPS deployment.

5. theia

   4 63 20,680 9.8 TypeScript

   Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.

   

   As someone who has recently tried to refactor our app atop of VSCode (treating it like a platform), we got burned by the UI design decisions that are not straightforward to overcome, let alone maintain. The closed-source MS marketplace did not help either towards our OSS goals.

   However, I found Theia (https://theia-ide.org) on HN (like a bunch of other cool things; this is one way I justify the time I spend/sink on this site) and find it a much better fit for our OSS goals (foundation owned, open-source marketplace) with full mod-ability while being compatible to VSCode extensions API (in theory). I recommend you look into it for your app.

6. sage

   5 2 1,174 9.3 Python

   Discontinued Chat with any codebase in under two minutes | Fully local or via third-party APIs (by Storia-AI)

   

   Not sure if this is what you'd like, but I remember this repo from some time ago https://github.com/Storia-AI/sage

   Storia-AI/sage: Chat with any codebase with 2 commands

7. codecompanion.nvim

   6 10 3,559 9.9 Lua

   ✨ AI-powered coding, seamlessly in Neovim

   

8. avante.nvim

   7 14 13,447 9.9 Lua

   Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE!

   

   - https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

   Did not have the time to test them yet and there are probably more.

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10. Atom

    8 286 58,803 8.1 JavaScript

    Discontinued :atom: The hackable text editor

    

    > All of the code is OOP-based, and they mount DOM nodes the old-school way (which is what React was supposed to solve..)

    I don't know about VS Code, but I remember Atom was refactored to use manual DOM updates because the performance penalty of using React wasn't worth it.[1] By the way, isn't OOP by far the most popular paradigm for building desktop UIs? I imagine VS Code is a difficult codebase to work with that has a lot of intricate code (as is usually the case with large software projects), but that's a strange piece of criticism :-)

    1. https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/5624

11. openvsx

    9 90 1,478 9.3 Java

    An open-source registry for VS Code extensions

    

    > Microsoft also made its extension marketplace closed-source so we (and Cursor) have to hack our way through it.

    For the marketplace, can you not use Open VSX [https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx]?

12. pearai-app

    10 4 579 0.0 TypeScript

    PearAI: Open Source AI Code Editor (Fork of VSCode). The PearAI Submodule (https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule) is a fork of Continue.

    

    there is also PearAI - "The Open Source AI-Powered Code Editor. A fork of VSCode and Continue." [0]. It's getting very crowded in this space: cursor.sh, continue.dev, double.bot, supermaven, codium.ai, PearAI and now Void.

    [0] - https://github.com/trypear/pearai-app

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