If it’s targeted at working alongside git, and competing with the “local history” provided by like vscode, jetbrains and even vim where they track all saves to files it might serve a purpose?

The latter could be “useful” as an offline record. But the way they’re talking about sharing that, it feels like this is targeted at replacing git.

I mean even if you could people would still believe whatever they want… must be tiring for sure.

Even with spaceman’s/doom and the amazing documentation it was always still so much work to configure emacs as a newer user. LLMS have made this nearly instant.

This is a bit of a ramble but it’s so amazing having emacs and an LLM now, I don’t even touch vscode anymore and only find myself touching things like IntelliJ when I really need to dig into something with a debugger.

For really obscure content, internet archive, your library, usenet or even eBay are the go to!

A lot of mainstream stuff is ripped already, the “ratio” on some is more if you download a torrent, they want you to seed it for x amount of time or seed it back x amount to the community. I don’t know of any that expect you to be ripping and uploading that way, it’s recommended but a lot have groups for mainstream content.

There are a few “elitist” private trackers that require “interviews” and stuff, but don’t let that scare you off 99% of them are all just grab and invite or sign up and seed back to community for the week or so minimum (preferably longer) and your good to go!

2. Usenet is still alive and thriving for this.

3. Libraries still exist and you can rent and rip media there

4.Internet Archive is a great resource for old stuff

5. Just buy physical copies and rip em. Can check eBay etc.

Like you said besides the “balls” or “spheres” used for capture it’s a completely different game.

Sure it’s a “similar” genre, but they’re also targeting a different audience altogether.

O well guess the lawyers can duke it out in the courts.

Microsoft has already made it difficulty to compete with their “free” by giving away enough and locking down parts that would allow competition to easily fork it (Python LSP, Extensions marketplace).

Vim and Emacs seem to be thriving but I wouldn’t call them drop in replacements.

I have a decent collection of ebooks/pdfs/manga from reading. But I can’t imagine how large a 20TB library is.

But it looks like it’s aimed more for “building your own IDE” without having to start from scratch, feels just like the old eclipse.

Maybe I’m missing something but why would anyone bother using this?

I honestly ask this because I never tried though… I use my homepod as a glorified timer, alarm clock, and speaker. I’m just sitting here in the apple ecosystem hoping one day things will actually feel connected.

I personally am using a mix of tools with my editors being vim for editing files quickly on cli, emacs for magit (honestly I just use it as a git tool and it works amazing, the startup and leaving it running 24/7 is no issue on a modern computer), intellij for java (it just works), and vscode for python, terraform, javascript/node.

I see absolutely no issue with this setup, I’m not sure I would recommend it to everyone but if you use a tool, that you feel works better for even a specific case why not use it for that. If new tools popup in the future I’m always willing to try them, if they work better I’ll add them to my workflow.

There’s nothing “similar” to it but vscode does have git tools, it just feels really clunky to use imo. Same goes for intellij’s UI. I guess it works for some people but they sort of just hurt my head to look at.