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Re: Zas Editor

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Post by ghosty141 »

terhechte wrote: post #107
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…

You mentioned elsewhere that VIM bindings are upcoming. I think this product will be an insta-buy for me once there're (reasonably proper) vim bindings. Is there a newsletter or something to know once this feature has landed? Also as a hint, before you try to re-implement 30 years of VIM bindings and end up with something where everybody misses something, there's a great C library that could be of help: https://githu…

the curse of vim.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by chubs »

Annili wrote: post #174

Zas Editor developer here. I think it’s important to address a problem a few people have mentioned so far: no data is collected other than your Mac’s serial number, which used to be used for finding how many computers a license is used on (we no longer do that) We’re going to add a privacy policy in the website. We haven’t already done that because we didn’t really expect this much attention within hours of releasing…

It looks fantastic! I don't really have much to add besides: Congrats! I hope you succeed! Great work!

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by ghosty141 »

Annili wrote: post #152
cute_boi wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As it is written in Swift, I highly doubt linux support is in their roadmap.

The more complex half is written in Rust. But you’re right, making it available for Linux isn’t something we plan to do soon

look at xi editor, it doesn't "really" work out even if it's not a technical one but a human one. It's just too much work to maintain 3-4 GUI applications which have to be in sync with a server api.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by cdash »

Mac only? No thanks. Support multiple platforms and then maybe it would be worth considering, even at increased price.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by ThinkBeat »

albertzeyer wrote: post #167

I wonder if it really still make sense to develop an editor as a commercial product. This is probably a massive effort, and the revenue is maybe not so large. There is IntelliJ and Visual Studio. IntelliJ is successful, yes, but they have a long history, and the editor is really good. Visual Studio is maybe also successful but I'm not sure how profitable it really was or is. But otherwise? Sublime Text and others wer…

The regular Visual Studio (Community, Pro, Enterprise) (if that is still the names used) is quite profitable.

As a regular person you can use Community for free within some limitations. (I think now that there is feature parity between Community an Pro)

If you work for a big company you need Pro or Enterprise sold as subscriptions for rather a lot of $$$. esp the Enterprise version.

The Enterprise version does have some great features that most devs. never get to use

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by farukuzun »

Love it! Some feedback:

- Showing type of the variable when you hover. Goland does it perfectly. - Being able to add mouse actions to shortcuts. A use case would be cmd+mousewheel to increase/decrease font size - Importing themes from GoLand.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by swah »

Lorak_ wrote: post #235

Why don't you mention the fact that it is Mac-only before bottom of the page (download section)?

Well, why didn't you infer that from the page design? :)

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by Jataman606 »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #237
albertzeyer wrote: post #167

I wonder if it really still make sense to develop an editor as a commercial product. This is probably a massive effort, and the revenue is maybe not so large. There is IntelliJ and Visual Studio. IntelliJ is successful, yes, but they have a long history, and the editor is really good. Visual Studio is maybe also successful but I'm not sure how profitable it really was or is. But otherwise? Sublime Text and others wer…

The regular Visual Studio (Community, Pro, Enterprise) (if that is still the names used) is quite profitable. As a regular person you can use Community for free within some limitations. (I think now that there is feature parity between Community an Pro) If you work for a big company you need Pro or Enterprise sold as subscriptions for rather a lot of $$$. esp the Enterprise version. The Enterprise version does have s…

I think parent meant 'profitable' as how much Microsoft profits from it, not if it's good value for money for consumers.
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