THE VIDEO SHELF · voice code editing
"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)
Pokey Rule presents Cursorless, a spoken language designed for editing code by voice, built on tree-sitter parsing with smart structural and simple token-level primitives. The talk is from Strange Loop 2023.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the best overview of Cursorless, likened to vim with your voice, and relevant to accessibility and voice coding discussions.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- voice code editing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great: [VIDEO]
citruscomputing on Hacker News · 2023-11
In Cursorless is alien magic from the future – Xe IasoKinda related, but this reminded me of the guy who made a voice controlled text editing language. It's kinda like vim with your voice. Super cool talk here: [VIDEO]
chamomeal on Hacker News · 2026-05
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