honestly as long as they don’t use the home directory ill survive. vscode and similar apps not offering any alternative to home directory pollution kills me.
I assume this breaks vscode? Would love a writeup if you have time
Nice start. There's definitely room for a good native macOS chat client, I have tried a few now and none feel perfect. I found two that feel usable:
HuggingChat (https://github.com/huggingface/chat-macOS)
It has a launcher interface in the current release, and code, latex, etc are pretty printed. You can switch from HF hosted models to local mlx ones (though those are hardcoded rn i think). I like it for quick queries to qwen2.5-coder and I think it would be great if they develop it more.
Enchanted (https://github.com/gluonfield/enchanted)
This one feels a bit buggy and it might be abandoned, but it has basic functionality for working with ollama models.
Just commenting to preempt any comments telling you that the article doesn’t say this.