This is just so sad. It's not bad, it's to be such a great application and something which had endured the whole Microsoft enshittification. But I guess even that falls.

This is very similar to the Zed editor. How much did you get inspired by them? And what are the differences between yours and their implementations?

I would take that as a compliment, big fan of Zed (I hope their extension ecosystem allows for us to plugin sidecar into Zed soon)

Tbh I did try out their implementation and it still feels early, one of the key difference we went for was to allow the user to move freely between chat and editing mode.

There's feels much more detailed and thoughtful than yours.

Yours for example doesn't allow one to insert diagnostics or allow for example for things like inserting all tabs open and all files open at once.

They also allow jumping from editing to chatting mode by simply doing command enter.

hmmm you are right, the ergonomics of providing context are more powerful in zed. Feedback taken, we will work on it.

We implicitly take in all the diagnostics on the files https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/e5408782a3bfa461...

So what? Just because Apple calls something retina "display" means that others cannot call stuff displays.

read it as sAIDEcar

And hyperbole like this is why democrats lost in such a devastating fashion.

+ the fact that they had no brand power and marketing. Trump in a garbage truck is great marketing.

Ah, yes. Trump won because of his well-known ability for measured and rational speaking.

That's not what they said. "Measured and rational speaking" is usually terrible marketing. It barely works on college-educated adults and certainly doesn't work on the mass market.

The example they gave is Trump in a garbage truck, but that's just one way in which Trump made himself enormously appealing to the non-elite.

They can not even understand that 80% of the country does not talk like a rich, educated liberal. It is so frustrating.

Worse, they don't see that a near-majority of the country is actively put off by someone speaking like a rich, educated liberal.

The #1 exercise Democratic politicians should do over the next 4 years is to spend hours and hours and hours actually listening to working-class people in flyover country and trying to really understand them. They just don't get it yet.

sad. software quality deteriorating sharply because of all this. To learn an API also helps to keep it small and focused instead of having thousands of methods on it. All software will now go the way of Java.

Anybody who takes VC money will always pivot to "the current thing".

Jetbrains is best for Java. For JavaScript it is literally broken for years.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-31686/Autocomplete-...

I use it every day for Javascript/Typescript and it works great. It's definitely not just for Java; many many languages are supported (https://www.jetbrains.com/ides/).

The bug you linked to seems rather esoteric (someone didn't want to manually type "import {blah} from package"...?). If you start to type that import, it'll autocomplete the rest for you. And once it's imported, it's very very good at traversing library files and types and bringing you to the definitions (VScode can do this too).

Does it have bugs? I'm sure. And it has its own absurd annoyances (like https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-60969/Show-path-in...) that might never get fixed. But in general it works great.

When you try import {blah} from package blah will not autocomplete. That is my point. Every other editor works in this case. And npm link is quite a common case.

Why don't they just add it to package.json? I don't understand why this is a big deal at all. It'd be weird to me if a repo started to use random libraries that I didn't explicitly add to its manifest, even if I npm linked them... but I guess that's just me?

If it's important to you, I guess this is not the right IDE for ya!

It is in package.json

What? The repro instructions say to leave it out.

Anyway, sorry, I hope they figure it out, but it's not something I've ever had trouble with. If it's an issue for you too, you might wanna write their support or just don't use the IDE.

It's a friends and family round.

I prefer something like this over Cal because Cal is VC funded and we all know what happens with those.