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Open Slopware - a list of AI-tainted FOSS software, plus alternatives (codeberg.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/notawfultech@awful.systems
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Currently in its very early stages, but it'll be a useful resource to identify slopified garbage and get it out of your life.

Credit to Kat Marchin for starting this.

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I just saw VS Codium as an alternative to VS Code on the list. My personal experience with Codium, nothing works reliably and there is no support, not even a user community. When the language server crashes often and randomly with only an exit code in the log, leaving you without code completion and other basic IDE functions it's not fun. It was a world of pain and I can't recommend it.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, it works okay for me. What’s “the language server” in this case? The third party c# language server isn’t great, but I’ve had no particular issues with python, julia, lean4, rust, dafny and tla+. I can’t recommended (vs)codium because it is a monstrous memory hog, and even in its de-microsofted form it’ll be full of vide-coding, but where there aren’t good alternatives is gets a solid “it’ll do” from me.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I had issues with python. The language server would just exit randomly leaving Codium with the functionalit of a glorified text editor.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Python at least has the advantage that there are a bunch of ides and fancy text editors out there (with varying degrees of llm integration), so if one doesn’t work for you there are alternatives. Fwiw, there are several different language servers as well, though I’m not sure how easy they are to swap in codium.

    I’ve been using zed of late. It has an ai killswitch, which is good enough for my needs which are a bit less hardline than the authors of the slopware list, and also helix which is nice but a very different sort of tool.

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