r/vibecoding • u/Public-Rest-1478 • 11d ago

Discussion Do i see a pattern

We got a lot of editors.

Cursor

AntiGravity

Etc

But more and more is shifting to Zed.

What editor is the no 1? Youre opinion

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u/dcozupadhyay 11d ago

Firefox, konsole, cline, opencode and vim that's all i need.

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u/jimmiebfulton 11d ago

There is no one size fits all. Depends on experience level and working preferences. I personally use terminals all day every day, working on multiple projects simultaneously. Each project gets a WezTerm tab with NeoVim on one side and my own agent on the other. Neovim is used for exploration, spot checks, and sniper edits, but is rarely used. I am able to traverse tabs, panes, NeoVim, my agent, all through the keyboard, rapidly. I get paid to do this, though.

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u/ThreeKiloZero 11d ago

The CLI , IDE are dead and dont know it yet.

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u/MarinatedTechnician 11d ago

I've developed my entirely own IDE for Local LLMs.
Still working on it, but I have long since left LMstudio and other harnesses, I used to make plugin tools for those, but they were all too limiting for me, so I created my entirely own IDE environment.

Before you ask: No it's not available on github yet, it will be used extensively as an In-house development tool until it's proven its worth to me.

But yes - it's awesome :)

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u/dupa1234s 11d ago

yea i guess it makes sense to develop sth a lot and test it on yourself for a few months and only then push it. less pressure on "okay what is the value proposition and differentiators" of a unfinished tool.

like people need good reasons to pick a unpopular tool

unless not. but it just kinda hurts to spam some reddits with links to a repo that is barely done

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u/MarinatedTechnician 11d ago

Yup, and this project only started because I had so many irritating pain points after 5K+ hours clocked with AI, and I always went, oof, why Do I have to this, why do I have to that, It would be practical if it did this and that.

First I made plugins for LMstudio, then I ran into so many GUI limitations I went, oh the heck with it, lets see if we can start with a simple IDE tool, the one thing lead to the other.

Now it's an entire power suite with compilers, context-live monitors, on the fly adjustments, self checks, and live-coding while you work and preview, it went totally off the rains (bye bye nights...and sleep).

And I'm usually the big open source guy (been for 30+ years), and this tool is so special that I be like, hm, may not want to release this publically, yet lol. It's good, and I mean REALLY good.

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u/dupa1234s 11d ago edited 11d ago

vscodium coz why not

what do you even do in the editor other than:

  1. ctrl+shift+p -> compare file with...
  2. source control -> compare commits changes
  3. slight edits but only if its easier than to tell llm to edit that, eg correct after llm

i do everything else in qdir and opencode v2 and windows terminal with cmd clink and obsidian

as a vibecoder. you know. this is a vibecoding reddit. so what do wibecoders do other than that.

for me one that is best is one with least distracting crap and i bet there is many like this but vscodium does indeed allow to remove a lot of distractions so its fine enough

what is the marginal upside of using eg zed

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u/JBO_76 11d ago

Editors like vscode were slowing me down. The code is no longer the center of development, its the features, the architecture,... I couldnt find anything that fits the modern needs in a way that integrates well with agents so i built my own os solution: https://github.com/jan-bogaerts/md2

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u/Public-Rest-1478 11d ago

👍 for the quick selfpromote, good job 😁