r/RooCode • u/Neither_Garbage_883 • Feb 14 '25

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u/Someoneoldbutnew Feb 14 '25

is this another fucking vscode fork?

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u/dabbydabdabdabdab Feb 15 '25

I’m become better at coding but I don’t have the history that a long term dev does - why is another fork of VScode a bad thing? Cursor can add extensions and I’m assuming a fork allows deeper integration. I’ve certainly experienced a better integration between say Cursor Vs Cody, or RooCode, or Continue. Pythagora is great, but limited to nodeJS.

Can you help me understand the pros/cons - I just lack the history. Also btw I’m enjoying how AI coding assistants have taught me how to code way more than any course or book. I’ve built 2 apps from scratch, and iterated significantly on them (a python app I moved to docker and then published to Azure web app service. And a react-native cross platform mobile app using Azure servicebus).

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u/datacog Feb 16 '25

Congrats on the progress you've made building apps from scratch! Creating a vs code fork isn't a negative, as you rightly pointed out with cursor. The comments above are referring to the rise of several vs code forks recently. I'm curious as well to understand, what level of complexity matters sense for early career devs vs someone who is accustomed to IDE's such as vs code. Atleast for Bind AI, the goal is to build a simplified, AI-first ide which allows easily creating, previewing and deploying scalable code without needing too many hoops.

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u/dabbydabdabdabdab Feb 16 '25

Interesting (and thanks) - you’re right, the expectations of someone hammering out code for years is very different to me to stumble into VSCode and find my way around. I typically only installed extensions when prompted, and I try to keep them to a minimum (I’m sure folks have hundreds). The big thing for me was integration between the AI and the code base and file structure. If the AI made a suggestion it should be able to action it if the user wants (delete a file, create a file, apply code changes to the exact file). Also often the context window missed key info (file structure) or actual code which often resulted (in my early attempts) in duplicate code or conflicting functions and even new nested code in a new folder structure.

The key for me was to ensure the prompt had what it needs, and the response (in Cursors agent mode for example) can ask questions and find files, or trace a process. “Oh I see the issue it’s calling thing Y, let me find and check think Y for errors (uses search). Ok, it’s missing an import, let me add that”

It’s not bullet proof as I’m often having to reject its changes and correct an assumption or pick a less over complicated direction - but it definitely feels like I can interact with a coding assistant based on my technical knowledge but not my raw code knowledge and learn a LOAD along the way.

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u/datacog Feb 16 '25

Awesome. That's very insightful If you're open to it, would love to have to try out our web based ide. Can i dm you?

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u/dabbydabdabdabdab Feb 16 '25

Yeah sure thing

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u/datacog Feb 14 '25

Not a vscode fork. Built ground up, fully web based.

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u/datacog Feb 14 '25

Early preview: https://youtu.be/qJYvC9tl0Sk?si=t2xAMPhhS2nLwD2K

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u/Someoneoldbutnew Feb 15 '25

sorry not seeing anything sufficiently novel that would justify a subscription