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

4 points by fdeage 1 year ago | 7 comments

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?

dschuessler 1 year ago |

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/

atmanactive 1 year ago | |

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

fdeage 1 year ago | |

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

dschuessler 1 year ago | | |

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.

ericrallen 1 year ago |

Void Editor[0] looks promising.

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

fdeage 1 year ago | |

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

ericrallen 1 year ago | | |

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