I use vscode for my personal projects (c++ and a fully open source stack, compiling for both Linux and Windows).

I’m using the proprietary version of vscode (via the aur) for the plugin repository, but I’ve always envied the open source version…

Are there any tools that have made you excited?

Bonus points if they have some support for compiling with MSVC (or if you can convince me to ditch it for something else).

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Neovim

    I tried using VSCode because of the copilot integration, but frankly copilot is underwhelming for me. I gave “vibe coding” a shot on a personal project and the results were slower than just doing it myself.

    I’m back to neovim. I’m very productive in customizing it and can never go back.

    • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      There’s avante.nvim for LLM integration, it supports most if not all LLM vendors at the moment.

      I tried it, however, and got to the same conclusion as you. Not worth it.

      • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
        2·
        1 day ago

        I found the rough areas did different by model

        e.g. Claude could not correct issues it introduced, it would sort of spiral through half refactors for an hour if unchecked.

        Gemini Pro asked for way too much permission. “Should I do this?” Yes, go, do it! “Okay, should I now add my edits” Yes. “Okay I added edits, now we can run make test”, okay run make Gemini requests to run make ugh it’s worse than a bad intern.

        Gemini would also frequently hallucinate APIs because I used a non-standard api for my hash table (allocate/dereference instead of get/set/update, which I find is more natural for managing ownership). And Gemini would rewrite my code style and order of operations for no reason (eg move a counter increment before updating another field).

        At no point could I just point the model at a small problem unsupervised. Even “update the test suite for 100% coverage of this module, make sure the tests are as small in scope as possible” had highly mixed results.

        And all models I tried would update my cmakelists and break it, and I hate dealing with cmake.

        I’ve been told the new Gemini is good at SQL and programming, but I’m underwhelmed on both. Gemini frequently doesn’t even know all the BigQuery functions, which being integrated into BigQuery Studio it should.

        They’re decent at code review, but a language server is still better at catching bugs.