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Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by gleenn »

activitypea wrote: post #3
ezekg wrote: post #2

This actually looks really, really good. Looks like I need to update macOS from 10.15.5 sometime soon. I use a Hackintosh, so this'll be fun (I've been putting it off because I finally got it to "work" and got scared/wanted to be productive again). Any idea on their plans to monetize? I assume they will eventually charge, since they raised a 10M series A.

No clue, I'm not affiliated with the devs in any way, I've just been very excited about it since one of the devs tweeted this: https://twitter.com/nathansobo/status/1498053586059620354 However, my first impressions of the keyboard navigation aren't great :(

Nathan was a former coworker of mine and he is not only an unbelievably talented software engineer but also one of the most humble and friendly guys I know. Glad he's still at it with Zed!

Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by rcme »

nickstinemates wrote: post #8
deburo wrote: post #4

Ahh bummer :/ > https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/174 > Hey y'all – We are excited that you all are excited to try Zed. Just want to make sure expectations are in check – We plan to release on multiple platforms for 1.0, but work on these has not even begun yet.

Developing on a mac is terrible; will take a look when other platforms are supported.

What makes it terrible?

Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by ClapperHeid »

It looks interesting but, given how Atom was abruptly taken out the back and put out of its misery, are many devs are going to invest the time in going all in on Zed?

EDIT: Just had a look inside the app bundle to see if they were using Electron again. Looks like this is built round WebRTC instead.

EDIT2: Actually the actual 'zed' binary is just under 284MB, so maybe Zed's not built round the WebRTC framework, but just uses it for networky stuff ???

The binary is pretty big by itself.

Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by dheera »

I'm really looking for a lighter-weight GUI editor. Too many random shortcut keys to memorize in Atom, and VS code is getting wayyyy to bloated. It always has an annoying welcome message at startup, annoying notifications about things I could install, and way too much text in the UI. I don't like settings and other dialogs being tabs alongside code, even though I know it hip to do that nowadays. I search for 'ssh plugin' and there about 35 of them.

SSH remote editing is about the only "plugin" I need, and if it's built into the editor that would be nice.

Very often I find myself going back to terminal vim because VS code has gotten to be too much, and also too annoying to deal with if I want to keep multiple projects' repos open at the same time.

Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by maxbrunsfeld »

activitypea wrote: post #3
ezekg wrote: post #2

This actually looks really, really good. Looks like I need to update macOS from 10.15.5 sometime soon. I use a Hackintosh, so this'll be fun (I've been putting it off because I finally got it to "work" and got scared/wanted to be productive again). Any idea on their plans to monetize? I assume they will eventually charge, since they raised a 10M series A.

No clue, I'm not affiliated with the devs in any way, I've just been very excited about it since one of the devs tweeted this: https://twitter.com/nathansobo/status/1498053586059620354 However, my first impressions of the keyboard navigation aren't great :(

What forms of keyboard navigation are you missing? We try to make sure everything is controllable from the keyboard.

Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by DennisAleynikov »

rcme wrote: post #12
nickstinemates wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Developing on a mac is terrible; will take a look when other platforms are supported.

What makes it terrible?

It's like if Ubuntu locked you in a jail

Only windows is worse

Re: Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta

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Post by noloblo »

ClapperHeid wrote: post #13

It looks interesting but, given how Atom was abruptly taken out the back and put out of its misery, are many devs are going to invest the time in going all in on Zed? EDIT: Just had a look inside the app bundle to see if they were using Electron again. Looks like this is built round WebRTC instead. EDIT2: Actually the actual 'zed' binary is just under 284MB, so maybe Zed's not built round the WebRTC framework, but ju…

is it an electron app? like vs code?
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