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Re: Zas Editor

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Post by agambrahma » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

Nice, would use this if I hadn't settled for SublimeText in this niche (fast editing or large files, things worth doing outside of JetBrains)

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by hajhatten » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #54

Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

If the plan is to make a native UI for each platform, good approach. If it is to stay macOS only, also a possible decision not everything needs to be cross platform, why bring Rust into the picture?

Why would support for Rust be a problem here?

Re: Zas Editor

#63

Post by conradev » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:25 AM UTC

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #46

sawaali wrote: post #21

There has been a resurgence of native editors these days (Helix, Nova, …). Every time I rush to check if there are vim keybindings. It's a dealbreaker otherwise!

It's especially interesting because thanks to Neovim, implementing vim mode should be more or less trivial -- Neovim has a server mode where you send it keystrokes and it sends you back buffer edits and/or UI to display. And since it's real vim you get to keep all your vim config, plugins etc in your IDE. I'm surprised I haven't seen it really take off yet.

At that point it’s just a UI for Vim, and wouldn’t have the rope data structure, live variable editing, LSP integration, etc

Unless, of course, you have it configured in Vim

Re: Zas Editor

#64

Post by armchairhacker » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:30 AM UTC

I’m assuming it only works for os11 or os12?

You should put that in the FAQ, i still have an old mac that can’t upgrade

Re: Zas Editor

#65

Post by smcleod » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:33 AM UTC

armchairhacker wrote: post #64

I’m assuming it only works for os11 or os12? You should put that in the FAQ, i still have an old mac that can’t upgrade

OS 10.15 goes out of support in October anyway

Re: Zas Editor

#66

Post by isaacimagine » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:34 AM UTC

From the domain name I confused this with the Zed editor[0] for a second. Despite both being editors written in Rust with zed* domain names, they are different. Really interested in both projects though.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29566960

Re: Zas Editor

#67

Post by blipmusic » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:34 AM UTC

EDIT:

The website now states:

    > Can I use one license on two computers?
    > Yes.

What great turn of events, thank you for reconsidering! You have my money. :)

——-

Old post (now incorrect):

    > Can I use one license on two computers?
    > No. It sucks, but that is the only way to prevent abuse.

The editor looks great, but this sucks to the extent that this won't work for me at all, unfortunately. Parallels' old-school licensing theme meant I'm dropping them as well. This is not about the value of the product or the price itself, $25 seems more than fair if this meets my needs, regardless of open-source alternatives.

I, and I suspect many others, develop on multiple computers, sometimes on a single day. If you worry about "enterprise abuse", perhaps consider a commercial license. Or add a higher priced tier that is per user, not per device. I think (i.e I don't actually know) there's a reason editors such as Sublime Text have per-user licenses (to be fair its price tag is also four times that of Zas Editor).

Are people actually abusing per-user, "honor" licenses that much nowadays? And here I'm thinking about difficult-to-verify customers who are willing to pay in the first place.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by Annili » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:37 AM UTC

blipmusic wrote: post #67

EDIT: The website now states: > Can I use one license on two computers? > Yes. What great turn of events, thank you for reconsidering! You have my money. :) ——- Old post (now incorrect): > Can I use one license on two computers? > No. It sucks, but that is the only way to prevent abuse. The editor looks great, but this sucks to the extent that this won't work for me at all, unfortunately. Parallels' old-school licens…

We realized how big of a mistake that was. We updated the server and the website. It is now possible to use one license on multiple computers.

edit: We would appreciate if you could mention that your comment in case someones reads your's without reading this one.

Re: Zas Editor

#69

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:42 AM UTC

blipmusic wrote: post #67

EDIT: The website now states: > Can I use one license on two computers? > Yes. What great turn of events, thank you for reconsidering! You have my money. :) ——- Old post (now incorrect): > Can I use one license on two computers? > No. It sucks, but that is the only way to prevent abuse. The editor looks great, but this sucks to the extent that this won't work for me at all, unfortunately. Parallels' old-school licens…

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Re: Zas Editor

#70

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 5:47 AM UTC

Annili wrote: post #68

blipmusic wrote: post #67

EDIT: The website now states: > Can I use one license on two computers? > Yes. What great turn of events, thank you for reconsidering! You have my money. :) ——- Old post (now incorrect): > Can I use one license on two computers? > No. It sucks, but that is the only way to prevent abuse. The editor looks great, but this sucks to the extent that this won't work for me at all, unfortunately. Parallels' old-school licens…

We realized how big of a mistake that was. We updated the server and the website. It is now possible to use one license on multiple computers. edit: We would appreciate if you could mention that your comment in case someones reads your's without reading this one.

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