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Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by BoorishBears on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:30AM (#41564447)
I'm surprised no one in targeting Jetbrains IDEs as seriously as Cursor has targeted vscode.

I'd imagine Jetbrains users are much more willing to pay, and the non-AI intelligence Webstorm has baked in save me almost as much cognitive load as Cursor does if not more compared to base vscode.

I tried Continue but it wasn't very smooth at all.

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kkarpkkarp on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:40AM (#41564517)
Supermaven[1] has addons for vscode as well for jetbrains (and neovim). And it is so good that I quickly decided for their paid plan

[1] https://supermaven.com/

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by hboon on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:47AM (#41564566)
They have announced they are building an editor; so while I'm a subscriber, I'm not sure how long the plugins will last
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kkarpkkarp on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:21AM (#41564779)
they really did? where could I read about this.

I prefer to stay with addon

Edit: I see it, this is in their newest blog post

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by onel on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:23AM (#41564797)
They announced it with their new round

https://x.com/SupermavenAI/status/1835743882971426837

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by hboon on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:25AM (#41564815)
Yeah, my first thought is the plugins are going away sooner or later.

I hope they use Jetbrains as a base instead of VS Code (or roll their own). I strongly prefer IdeaVim or over the one in VS Code. It's the main reason why I don't use Cursor.

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kevo1ution on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:05AM (#41564676)
We're targeting android studio - https://firebender.com. I imagine its because Java Swing is actually extremely painful to work with and learn. Most developers interested in AI and the experience overlap with Sun Microsystem's Java Swing is not very large.
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kungfufrog on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:58AM (#41564634)
I started paying for Sourcegraph's Cody AI because of how great the integration was in JetBrains IDEs!

Happy user for a few months now :)

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by selcuka on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:42AM (#41564531)
JetBrains + CoPilot integration is pretty good.
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by bilekas on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:40AM (#41564513)
Jetbrains isn't open source and this seems to be a fork of vscode, not an extension so there's a bit more control on what's being done here.

Edit : This is only my guess, I have no internal knowledge of Cursor.

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kevo1ution on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:06AM (#41564688)
Intellij community edition is open source, but not the enterprise version. However, CE is pretty feature rich with a ton of users and if you're targeting indie developers, most are on CE anyways. I'd say if you do Intellij, you have to be in for the long game to build up to enterprise, but its doable.
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by bilekas on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:24AM (#41564800)
That's interesting actually, I didn't know they even had a community edition but as I am reading anyway it seem it supports only Android, Swing, and JavaFX. That's quite a limitation no?
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by esperent on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:42AM (#41564528)
Try out the Claude dev vscode extension. It's much better than Continue in my experience.
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by hansoolo on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:44AM (#41564540)
AFAIK jetbrains has an AI Assistant now, too. But I cannot say anything about how it works.
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by selcuka on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:49AM (#41564583)
It was sub-par when I last tried it, like many things JetBrains have been doing these days.

I love their products, and I would be sad if they can't stay competitive, but it looks like they are taking all the wrong turns.

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kevo1ution on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @02:07AM (#41564693)
you can try https://firebender.com. Its specifically designed for android studio, but still works well for intellij. I use it every day to develop the plugin itself.
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by selcuka on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:23AM (#41565582)
Thanks. I'm already using GitHub CoPilot, but will give this a try.

Honestly speaking I'm not a big fan of chat based assistants, which was one of my complaints about IntelliJ's own assistant. Auto-complete feels more natural, although I can see that the suggestions might be more accurate and to the point with the chat based ones.

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by kevo1ution on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:49PM (#41575596)
we're working on this right now. Expect to see auto-complete, and cmd+K functionality this week!
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by JustFinishedBSG on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:19AM (#41565550)
It's close to useless.

I would know, I made the mistake of paying yearly.

Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by hansoolo on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:43AM (#41565997)
I don't know why, but I somehow expected that...
Re:Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alter... by langitbiru on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @04:33AM (#41565649)
There is Cody (https://sourcegraph.com/cody). But their "applying code" feature is worse than Cursor. They put import lines on the bottom of the file, for example. Cursor's "applying code" is superb. Too bad it cannot be used with another IDE.