Hacker News with Generative AI: Code Editors

Zed – The Editor for What's Next (zed.dev)
Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI.

Code Editors, AI, Collaboration

50 points by 9woc 18 days ago | 52 comments

Notepad++ is 21 years old (learnhub.top)
Alright, folks, gather around because it’s story time about one of the most underrated yet indispensable tools in the digital world—Notepad++. This month marks the 21st anniversary of this amazing software, and that’s right, Notepad++ is finally legal to drink (if it were a person, of course). Can you believe it? 21 years of keeping developers, writers, and pretty much anyone who’s ever needed to write a chunk of text happy and efficient.

Software, Anniversaries, Code Editors

548 points by thunderbong 20 days ago | 247 comments

Visual Studio Code vs. Sublime Text: Which code editor should you use? (infoworld.com)
Do you want a maximum-flexible editor with just the right IDE features, or the fastest and most efficient editor you can find? You can have both.

Code Editors, Software, Programming, Comparison

4 points by thunderbong 24 days ago | 4 comments

Firepad – An embeddable open-source collaborative code and text editor for web (firepad.io)
Real-time collaboration with no server code.

Open Source, Collaboration, Text Editors, Web Development, Code Editors

18 points by bookstore-romeo 39 days ago | 6 comments

Ask HN: Are new AI code editors adding superficial value? (ycombinator.com)
Specifically referring to Cursor and Melt. It seems to be the rage among the bay area AI community but they're basically just VS Code skins. Im pretty happy with VS Code both features-wise and UX, but I think now is the golden opportunity to fundamentally rethink the craft & work of human coding and build a new UI/App from scratch. Including NOT building on Electron..

AI, Software Development, User Interfaces, Code Editors, Programming

26 points by dcreater 52 days ago | 16 comments

Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022) (ghuntley.com)
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O'Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Now that I'm no longer an employee at Gitpod, I'm finally able to author a blog post freely about something that has been troubling me for quite some time...

Privacy, Software, Code Editors

405 points by ghuntley 52 days ago | 345 comments

Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas (github.com/haystackeditor)
This repository ("Haystack Editor") is where we (Haystack Software) develop the Haystack Editor product together with the community.

Software, YC, Code Editors, Visualizations

328 points by akshaysg 57 days ago | 173 comments

Nova by Panic: Native Mac code editor (nova.app)

Mac, Code Editors, Software, New Releases

121 points by luismedel 59 days ago | 105 comments

Show HN: Void - open source Cursor AI code editor (voideditor.com)
Use AI autocomplete, inline edits, codebase chat, agentic features, and more, in a privacy-first AI IDE.

Open Source, AI, Code Editors, Programming, Software

13 points by andrewpareles 70 days ago | 8 comments

Ask HN: What is your experience with Cursor? (ycombinator.com)
I've seen it brought up quite a few times here in the past few weeks. I'm currently using VSCode + Copilot. Would be great to hear some experiences, even better if you migrated from the stack I am using.

Code Editors, Programming Tools, User Experience, AI Assistants

27 points by aliasxneo 71 days ago | 29 comments

Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor (pragtical.dev)

Code Editors, Software, Programming

255 points by rd07 93 days ago | 106 comments

Ask HN: What code editors or IDEs are easily scriptable? (ycombinator.com)

Programming, Tools, Code Editors, IDEs

38 points by ericb 101 days ago | 64 comments

Sublime Text 4180 (sublimetext.com)

New Releases, Software, Code Editors

9 points by sagischwarz 107 days ago | 2 comments

Cursor – The AI Code Editor (cursor.com)