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"This could cost people their jobs": VS Code added Copilot as co-author without permission or notice
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Beyond VSCodium (which I have switched to since this news), what are everyone’s favorite alternatives that are easy to switch to?
I say easy to switch to because no one is jumping to Vim or whatever on this news. I don’t mean to offend the deeply Linuxed, but they aren’t.
I may finally give Pulsar a go (a maintained Atom fork).
I really missed Atom when it died.
I was many years user of JetBrains stuff. Tried vscode multiple times and last time I checked it was full Microsoft bullshit.
Finally I settled with Zed. It’s amazing. Still has some missing features but overall great experience once you set it all up to your liking.
Maybe KDE's Kate. It's available for everything with a mouse and keyboard and works just fine. Not as ultra fancy as Codium, but if you need a quick and easy text editor that isn't all Electron bells and whistles... Kate.
Kate is nice but it's annoying to use with direnv/nix devshells unfortunately
Lmao, of course nobody is jumping to Vim. We're all on NeoVim now.