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Posted by u/fdeage 7 months ago
Ask HN: Open-Source editor with local code completion?
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 · 7 months 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 · 7 months 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 · 7 months ago
Great, even though it appears to work only with VS Code and JetBrains...
dschuessler · 7 months 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 · 7 months ago
Void Editor[0] looks promising.

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

fdeage · 7 months ago
It has a waitlist and appears to be a fork to VS Code... But I will give it a try!
ericrallen · 7 months ago
You can run any OpenAI API-compatible local models via Ollama, LM Studio, etc.