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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 DennisAleynikov »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #10
nickstinemates wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Only if you're trying to build for Windows.

No macOS is a horrible developer platform in general. The only thing that makes it remotely viable is the tireless efforts of the Homebrew project.

I can't imagine thinking macOS is a good programmer OS

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

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Post by frou_dh »

To me it's a kinda distasteful design that despite being a graphical application, this is using monospaced font for the titlebar, tab headers, file tree, etc. Looks odd on Mac.

In general Zed seems to be at a decent starting point though. Aside from its "multiplayer editing" aspect, it comes across like it has been very heavily influenced in terms of scope by Sublime.

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

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Post by maxbrunsfeld »

toastercat wrote: post #5

Will it be open-source?

Yeah, the plan is to open-source the editor itself before we release 1.0. We will probably keep some part of the collaboration system closed-source, so that we can build our business around that feature set.

We have some work to do to decide exactly what will be closed source and separate that out from the rest of the application code.

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

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Post by gabrielgio »

noloblo wrote: post #19
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?

It does not seem like. They mention they have a custom GPU accelerated UI.

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

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Post by ClapperHeid »

noloblo wrote: post #19
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?

You got in before I edited my comment ^^

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

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Post by maxbrunsfeld »

noloblo wrote: post #19
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?

No. It's written in Rust, with a custom UI framework. More details in this blog post: https://zed.dev/blog/videogame
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