We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

Why did you comment this? If a actual commenter replied with some of those points there could be a back-and-forth discussion about it, but you just contributed nothing.

Re: We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

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Post by verticalscaler » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 1:07 PM UTC

jna_sh wrote: post #3

verticalscaler wrote: post #2

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Genuine question, why are you posting this?

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Re: We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

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Post by benbristow » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 1:20 PM UTC

Doesn't work on Windows or Linux. Remind me when it does.

Re: We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

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Post by practicalrs » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 1:31 PM UTC

benbristow wrote: post #6

Doesn't work on Windows or Linux. Remind me when it does.

I asked Thorsten about Windows support today, he said "Zed, you mean? After Linux, I'd say.". So there is some plan :)

Re: We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

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Post by tiffanyh » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 1:34 PM UTC

SIMD

I wonder if Zed uses SIMD, to read in text from a file or write out text to the display.

Mitchell recently wrote about how he got a massive reduction in latency, by implementing SIMD in his terminal app (which is analogist to an editor)

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-006

https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/111919642467789362

Re: We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

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Post by instagary » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 1:36 PM UTC

I tried Zed, and it felt similar to VSCode. I know there are multiplayer features that are better than live share, but on the surface, I needed convincing to switch.

I would be more inclined to use Zed if it could displace XCode. It pains me to use it from deleting derived data or cleaning the build folder to random crashes.

Contrasting the DX to Android Studio, it's night and day. I always wanted an Android studio-like experience for iOS development.

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Post by torlok » Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 1:43 PM UTC

Had a look at the About page, and the live coding feature does sound useful. I'm sure the guys are excited; it's a fun project. You get to write algorithms, optimise performance, and do GPU programming. But who needs another text editor that will probably never reach feature parity with Vim and a terminal multiplexer.