Managed language servers are the draw here. Offering to install missing servers, alongside tree-sitter highlighting, go to definition, hover, and ripgrep search, makes a terminal editor feel less stripped down. I'd mostly want auto-save and file watching to stay predictable when other tools touch the same files.
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Toast is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed for use within the terminal. It provides features like managed language servers, a file tree, multiple tabs, syntax highlighting, spell checking, a command palette, and theming out of the box to enable developers to code efficiently without leaving the terminal.
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Looks like another unreadable black hole of nothingness. God, I wish this trend would hurry up and run its course.
CamperBob2 · Imported from Show HN
It's interesting that it brags about no AI as a feature, but the website (and maybe the product itself?) was clearly built using AI.
gkoberger · Imported from Show HN
The "Emacs doesn't have a file-tree" is when I stopped short and wondered what this person's background is in IDEs. My emacs days are 1999 during my "functional or get out" phase, but my .emacs had close to 4000 lines in it, including xterm mouse support, a clone of midnight commander + sftp to a wehbost and deep integration with ctags/cscope/c++filt. There was even a line by line debugger with custom .gdbinit commands - look at the php project's gdbinit[1] if you want an idea of how to walk your own super special data structures. You can't put Emacs in an IDE comparison and say anything about features without at least one person saying "well, actually". I eventually switched to vim but that had to do with needing to ssh into 100k+ machines on support rotation & never having emacs on any of them. [1] - https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/.gdbinit
gopalv · Imported from Show HN
> "No AI features" > Sees "Claude" Now almost 90% of projects on GitHub including existing projects are now slop or are adding slop. Many projects are getting contaminated with AI, and even Linux is getting contaminated with this. There is a list of projects that have non-slop alternatives one can use instead. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware
colesantiago · Imported from Show HN
First file I look at (concerning): "github.com/yourusername/toast/internal/components/breadcrumbs" "github.com/yourusername/toast/internal/components/closedialog" "github.com/yourusername/toast/internal/components/commandpalette" "github.com/yourusername/toast/internal/components/editor"
jasonjmcghee · Imported from Show HN