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We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

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

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

torlok wrote: post #10

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.

zed is actually very fast though

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

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Post by v3ss0n »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #12
torlok wrote: post #10

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.

zed is actually very fast though

Only works on Mac Big no no

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

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Post by nixpulvis »

Great interview!

Love how much thought is being put into what you “gold-plate”. I’ve always felt that my best work comes around on round two (or three or four…).

Curious what you are planning for the ability to script the configuration? I haven’t played with zed much yet; is it possible today? Would something like Neon [1] help bridge the gap from VSCode and old Atom users?

[1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

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

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Post by sapiogram »

practicalrs wrote: post #7
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 :)

> So there is some plan :)

How does that follow from the rest of your comment?

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

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Post by ben-schaaf »

tiffanyh wrote: post #8

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

memcpy, strchr, etc. use SIMD. The rust HashMap uses SIMD. LLVM can and will auto-vectorize. So yes - of course Zed - "uses SIMD", but it's not a tool you can throw at everything to make it faster.
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