We shipped RA.Aid, an agentic evolution of what aider started, back in late '24, well before CC shipped.
Our main focuses were to be 1) CLI-first and 2) truly an open source community. We have 5 independent maintainers with full commit access --they aren't from the same org or entity (disclaimer: one has joined me at my startup Gobii where we're working on web browsing agents.)
I'd love someone to do a comparison with CC, but IME we hold our own against Cursor, Windsurf, and other agentic coding solutions.
But yes, there really needs to be a canonical FOSS solution that is not tied to any specific large company or model.
Our main focuses were to be 1) CLI-first and 2) truly an open source community. We have 5 independent maintainers with full commit access --they aren't from the same org or entity (disclaimer: one has joined me at my startup Gobii where we're working on web browsing agents.)
I'd love someone to do a comparison with CC, but IME we hold our own against Cursor, Windsurf, and other agentic coding solutions.
But yes, there really needs to be a canonical FOSS solution that is not tied to any specific large company or model.