Theia IDE

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The 9 most detailed of 10 comments. Each links to the original.

1. Theia actually does enough stuff differently that I think it warrants being its own thing

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R”

2. this is excellent idea, if more people and companies would invest in it's development

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Google Antigravity”

3. I built this because I was tired of AI making up fake citations.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Theia: Hold Your LLM Accountable”

4. sounds like natural foundation for Cursor

   Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Cursor 3”

5. I like the idea of Theia as a platform

   Mixed · Dec 2025 · in “Theia IDE – AI-Native Open-Source Cloud and Desktop IDE”

6. It absolutely tanks binary performance and does little to prevent a moderately competent engineer from cheating in your game.

   Criticizes · Jul 2026 · in “Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS”

7. As far as I know VSCode/Theia don't allow that.

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Flow – A Programmer's Text Editor”

8. yay, another vscode with ai integration

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Theia IDE – AI-Native Open-Source Cloud and Desktop IDE”

9. Could be better without Theia

   Criticizes · Dec 2025 · in “Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm”