Void - open source Cursor AI code editor

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Hey HN, we're Andrew and Mat and we're building Void, an open source Cursor alternative. Our editor is an open-source VSCode fork. Our primary goal is to create a fully-featured AI editor where you can keep your data completely private. Going open source is really important because it let us take the logic that would normally live on a server, like prompt building or message handling, and run it on your local machine instead. This way you can do things like self-host Llama 3.1 or Gemma and never have your data leave your computer. You can also just send your prompts directly to foundational models (GPT4o, Claude) without going through a middleman API. Another exciting part of the project is that we have full control over the IDE, and can build our own native features. Normally if you want to build an AI tool you have to make the same chat UI, history management, filesystem indexing, LSP, VSCode integrations, etc. We think we can standardize all these into a nice native API you can just plug into instead. It would be awesome to create a centralized place that lets people build advanced open source tools like AI edits across many files, and even agents, in an IDE we're all used to. Let us know what you think of the idea. We've really enjoyed working on it and are super excited to see where it goes :)

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