OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust
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I hear this a lot, the argument usually being "they didn't care to put effort into it, so it probably won't be maintained.
That's a reasonable assumption. It's basically the Lindy effect: The longer something has existed, the longer it probably will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
But maybe a Lindy effect measuring effort rather than time (as a signal of commitment). Git commits no longer mean effort since the computer can just make commits on its own.
Still, one day I expect to see a fully vibe coded project and to see that the guy has been maintaining it for ten years. That will probably give me a different impression.
We just don't know yet which of today's projects will survive, and which will be rapidly abandoned.
It is still the output of a replicator machine, regardless of text, images, video or code.
Overall I actually agree that VSCode has proven that making responsive web based frontends is absolutely viable for the IDE, if you accept startup latency, size and memory use of CEF / Electron. And on Windows and macOS, system WebView may be sufficiently compatible (not on Linux anytime soon!), and they significantly amortize all of those downsides.
In the benchmark[1] the cpu, memory and quit time (!) are compared, but does it makes any sense without feature parity?
The entire project makes no sense. Names itself Open when IDEA is already open, says built in Rust when 60% is TS, says it's native app when it's a web app with a native connection, clueless benchmarks, made by vibe coders who don't even use/need an IDE, ...
looks inside
60% Typescript
Yeah, didn't think so...
Did Tauri ever figure out how to run performantly on Linux, or are they still using webkit2gtk? They were looking at integrating Servo last time I checked, but I have no clue how far they've progressed with that since.
Building consistent frontends for all platforms isn’t easy in rust, so they use web standards for that.
Rust at home:
> completion from language servers
That's exactly the thing that I like about idea: It's better than that.
IDEA is much smarter than what a language server alone offers.
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1. The editor implementation is here: <https://github.com/l0ng-ai/openidea/blob/main/src/editor/cor...>
I guess the logic here is: If I love this project, I should renew my JetBrains subscription...so that they can keep having money to fix bugs in their IDE...so that you can keep reverse engineering it?
Am I seeing this right?
Which isn't the vibe I want from my editor.
I know this exact comment is probably becoming tedious on HN, but it's very rare that a tool I pay for is so bad I'll jump ship for 0.1.0 alpha if a clone.
Long story short, I'm keeping my sub.
I'm not sure exactly why this came to mind. Vibes?
It was interesting, but sluggish.
Jetbrains took advantage of it for profit and eventually adobe'd the business model, although granted they made a lot of improvements for various languages.
I have no pity for companies who made money off open source and lose it the same way. But this looks like a fight between fighters past their prime.
The large disk space usage for Rust is much more solvable than speed-up in Rust compilation as long as crate remains the lowest compilation unit.
Barring this, even for AI based development Golang is much better language. But Rust's long term payoff is too good at this point.
I bet it's a lot of fun being a Rust programmer / coder.
If you do a lookup at WIPO brands database you can find "intellij" and "intellij idea" owned by Jetbrains s.r.o. but not "idea" alone.
Based on this only a judge can decide if it is close enough to be an infringement and could misled customers. Given the readme days eplicitely says it is not the same IDE as Intellij IDEA I would say it would be hard to convince someone customers are misled.
The discussion about IP with these reverse engineered products in itself is interesting, although a bit repetitive with new clones every day.
Since when cloning an open source project became a "hack" ?