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IDEs With AI Coding Assists

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

AI Code Assistant for IDEs

  1. Google Gemini

    • Built-in for Firebase Studio
  2. GitHub Copilot

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio
    • command-line
  3. Amazon Q Developer

    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio
    • Jet Brains
    • command-line

IDEs …

Tips on the Zed IDE

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Zed does not support the web version yet, however, it does support remote develop .

Install via Flatpak

https://flathub.org/apps/dev.zed.Zed

flatpak install flathub dev …

mkShell vs buildFHSUserEnv in Nix

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The following content is edited based the answer generated by Google AI Studio using the prompt "buildFHSUserEnv vs mkShell".

mkShell (and nix-shell, nix develop)

Purpose: The standard way to create a …