This is not an issue. Technology moves forward. You don't adapt, you fall behind. There were other editors and IDE's before the one you use. New devs will use it.
Anyway, I don't use them either. I prefer to use ChatGPT and Claude directly.
Anyway, I don't use them either. I prefer to use ChatGPT and Claude directly.
Good at integrating AI into a text editor != Good at building an IDE.
I worry about the ability for some of these VSCode forks to actually maintain a fork and again, I greatly prefer the power of IDEA. I’ll switch if it becomes necessary, but right now the lack of deep AI integration is not compelling enough to switch since I still have ways of using AI directly (and I have Copilot).
I'm a long term vim user. I find all the IDE stuff distracting and noisy. With AI makes it even more noisy. I'm guessing the new generation will just be better at using it. Similar to how we got good at "googling stuff".
It’s a mistake to assume that there will be 100% correlation between the past and future, but it’s probably as bad of a mistake to assume 0% correlation. (Obviously dependant on exactly what you are looking at).
So while the odds at the extremes are low, they cannot be ignored.
No one can predict the future. But those that assume tomorrow will be like today are - per history - going to be fatally wrong eventually.
Each circumstance is different. Sometimes the past is a good guide to the future – even for the notoriously unpredictable British weather apparently you can get a seventy percent success rate (by some measure) by predicting that tomorrows weather will be the same as todays. Sometimes it is not - the history of an ideal roulette wheel should offer no insights into future numbers.
The key is of course to act in accordance with the probability, risk and reward.
Vim has been around since the Stone Age.
Jokes aside, I don’t really see why ai tools need new editors vs plugins EXCEPT that they don’t want to have to compete with Microsoft’s first party AI offerings in vscode.
It’s just a strategy for lock-in.
An exception may be like zed, which provides a lot of features besides AI integration which require a new editor.
Vi and vim were never products sold for a profit.
Who was saying what? And what were they saying?
EDIT: ah I think I understand now.
The thing is, I don’t see any advantage to having AI built into the editor vs having a plug-in. Aider.vim is pretty great, for example.
The only reason to have a dedicated editor is a retention/lock in tactic.
The editor handles the human to text file interface, handling key inputs, rendering, managing LSPs, providing hooks to plugins, etc. AI coding assistants kind of sits next to sits it just handles generating text.
It’s why many of these editors just fork vscode. All the hard work is already done, they just add lock in as far as I can tell.
Again, zed is an exception in this pack bc of its CRDT and cooperative features. Those are not things you can easily add on to an existing editor.
So you're just out here wasting my time
See you