The Goal is simple, there should be an actual free editor
Hey HN, I'm Saai, one of the creators of Sylix. I made this open-minded version of Cursor where you can get all of the core features of Cursor but in a fully customizable IDE (Ctrl+K, @docs, parallel agents). We love Cursor so much, but there are so many other features we're building, including all things like multi-edit, parallel swaps, agent indexing (but not the traditional one), parallel LSP, or maybe... we might give agents a better understanding of the codebase via multi-semantic memory instead, alongside in-search grep for your system files or workspace. Sylix will be open source once…
The Goal is simple, there should be an actual free editor launched on July 31, 2026 with 20 votes, #875 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Sylix is a customizable AI-powered code editor built on Monaco that offers core features similar to Cursor, including Ctrl+K commands, documentation references, and parallel agents. Designed for developers seeking a free alternative, it provides multi-edit capabilities, parallel LSP support, and advanced codebase understanding through multi-semantic memory. The tool enables workspace file searching and agent indexing beyond traditional approaches. Sylix plans to become open source once stable.
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From the sources
The ideas is pretty simple : "Turn promts into production software"
Sylix is a free AI code editor built in Rust. Local-first privacy, BYOK, verify loop, LSP autocomplete. Not a VS Code fork — built from scratch. Under 35MB.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I'm Saai, one of the creators of Sylix. I made this open-minded version of Cursor where you can get all of the core features of Cursor but in a fully customizable IDE (Ctrl+K, @docs, parallel agents). We love Cursor so much, but there are so many other features we're building, including all things like…
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Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative2024 · github.com · ▲347Hey HN, I'm Andrew, one of the creators of Void. I made this open source version of Cursor where you can get all of Cursor's core features but in a fully-customizable IDE (ctrl+k, ctrl+L). We love Cursor but there are so many other features we want to build, like allowing AI to edit multiple files at once, or giving AI better understanding of your file system. Void is the open-source, fully customizable tool we've been wanting. The hard part: we're building Void as a fork of vscode. The repo has great documentation for extensions, but going deeper gets pretty involved. All of the code is…
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Shuffle2021 · shuffle.dev · ▲260Hi! We noticed that our users extensively use Shuffle (a visual editor for developers) in conjunction with Cursor. That's why we built the Shuffle CLI, a lightweight tool that creates a seamless bridge between Shuffle and Cursor. With this CLI, you can: * Sync your visual components from Shuffle directly into Cursor projects * Automatically generate clean, editable code from your designs * Keep your design and dev workflows tightly integrated without copy-pasting or re-exporting We built this to reduce the friction between prototyping and production. If you're using Cursor as your IDE and…
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