Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?

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I'm looking for a text editor similar to Cursor, Trae, or VS Code+Copilot, but one that would be open source and could use a local LLM as the backend.

Trae looks promising, but I'm not comfortable with the idea of sending my code/analytics/telemetry/whatever to the editor maker and the LLM vendor.

Are there any reasonably polished options available yet, particularly for macOS?

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Continue [0] is open source and supports local models. I still haven't found time to try it out yet. If you host it in VSCodium [1], you would have pretty much what you asked for.

[0] https://www.continue.dev/

[1] https://vscodium.com/

I'm running Continue on Ollama on VSCodium for a few weeks now and it is great! Much better than my good old TabNine.

Great, even though it appears to work only with VS Code and JetBrains...

If your sibling comment is right, it also runs on VSCodium, which is a distribution of the free and open source parts of VSCode and not to be confused with VSCode itself.

Void Editor[0] looks promising.

[0]: https://voideditor.com/

It has a waitlist and appears to be a fork to VS Code... But I will give it a try!

You can run any OpenAI API-compatible local models via Ollama, LM Studio, etc.

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