SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
by 0x1997 on 4/6/2026, 6:49:42 AM
https://github.com/Sidenai/sidex
Comments
by: eviks
> Same architecture, native performance ... Goal: 200mb RAM usage.<p>But Tauri doesn't have native performance, specifically when it comes to RAM!<p>> Memory benchmark might be incorrect: Tauri might consume more RAM than Electron > <a href="https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/5889</a>
4/6/2026, 7:19:27 AM
by: anematode
Quoting from the README:<p>> The entire VSCode workbench - editor, terminal, extensions, themes, keybindings — ported to run on a native shell.<p>but also<p>> Many workbench features are stubbed or partially implemented<p>So which is it? The README needs to be clearer about what is aspirational, what is done, and what is out of scope. Right now it just looks like an LLM soup.
4/6/2026, 7:10:36 AM
by: OsrsNeedsf2P
Vibe coded UI translation with a conflicting README and no screenshots? Is this what it takes to get onto HN front page?
4/6/2026, 7:13:40 AM
by: tkz1312
What a world we live in where 200mb RAM usage for a text editor is considered "lightweight".
4/6/2026, 7:07:51 AM
by: Szpadel
> Zero Electron imports remaining in the codebase<p>and you know that AI wrote all of it with minimal human supervision.<p>side note: last few days I noticed that vscode stopped leaking memory all over the place. when left idle it was taking all the ram I had + 20gb of swap space<p>and recently I noticed that I have half of the ram free.<p>I use insiders build btw, so stable might still not have those improvements
4/6/2026, 7:24:13 AM
by: woadwarrior01
> Goal: 200mb RAM usage.<p>We've come such a long way from: "Eighty Megs and Constantly Swapping" :D
4/6/2026, 8:18:29 AM
by: vscode-rest
I am not sure that their goal (<200mb ram) is really related to their approach (using a built in rendering engine for the same exact source material) at all.
4/6/2026, 7:32:35 AM
by: ipmanlk
I don't think it's worth it with the sheer amount of issues you will run into on Mac and Linux. There is a reason why lot of Tauri apps are being rewritten in Electron.
4/6/2026, 7:57:08 AM
by: digitaltrees
Awesome project. How much work is left, are you looking for contributors? I just built very basic IDE on mobile for myself. I thought about forking vscode but it felt too heavy and I only wanted a subset of features. Now I am wondering if I should use this project for the desktop version.
4/6/2026, 7:20:24 AM
by: linzhangrun
My attitude toward vibe coding is quite open — as long as the quality of the software it produces, including the documentation, is not a problem.<p>Unfortunately, this is yet another example of a vibe-coded project that does have those problems.
4/6/2026, 7:48:19 AM
by: TurdF3rguson
> Goal: 200mb RAM usage<p>This is why Zed is great but I just can't get used to the debugger experience so I end up back in VSCode.
4/6/2026, 7:27:53 AM
by: debarshri
Would this also support the whole plugin infrastructure?
4/6/2026, 7:08:05 AM
by: hokkos
The worst thing about Tauri is people gaslighting about it being more efficient. No you just save on 150MB of download and install size. And you trade that for risk of incompabilities and breaking. The last thing I want for an editor I use 8h a day.
4/6/2026, 7:53:58 AM
by: ardline
This is the kind of thing that looks simple until you actually implement it.
4/6/2026, 7:21:54 AM
by: jeremie_strand
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4/6/2026, 7:05:56 AM
by: gigatexal
Good. I’m glad. It’s a great editor but the whole electron backend is so bloated.
4/6/2026, 6:52:46 AM