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Besides VSCodium (which isn't really a fork, it's just building from the source code of VSCode without the Microsoft stuff), there aren't any VSCode forks/derivatives that aren't AI-assisted editors (see Cursor, Windsurf, those are the main two, right?).

That feels a bit weird to me, as many other pieces of software have lots of forks and derivatives (browsers, operating systems, email clients, emulators, PDF viewers, Fediverse clients, etc.). I guess people who would bother to create a fork and doesn't want to put AI in everything just uses a different editor.

There's nothing wrong with VSCodium, it's awesome. My only gripe with it is that the rpm package takes ages to update compared to everything else I use, which is weird. Other than that issue, it runs fine, and I like the flexibility that plugins give me. I just find it odd that there aren't any other VSCode derivatives/forks.

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[โ€“] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

On other editors, I like VSCodium the best. Something like Neovim or Helix is a bit too hardcore for me, and I like having a folder tree to navigate between different files. Sublime Text isn't open-source and, in my experience, VSCodium is more customisable with plugins and such. Lite XL is one I tried recently and seems interesting with a bunch of plugins as well, but doesn't include a GUI for the settings page (there's a plugin for that though, but strange that it's not built-in...). I still like Lite XL, it's got support for a bunch of languages. The main drawback for me is that there doesn't seem to be a git branch tree or any way to run code within the code editor.

[โ€“] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago

For git, there is the git diff and blame plugins, but there's no plugin for a git tree...