Zed – The Editor for What's Next
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#2I long for an editor like this to have very, very expansive support for all of the weird text editor choices. Ie the ability to effectively, not literally recreate Vim, Helix, etc in it. Sounds insane i know.. but i adore this editor and despite that, i just can't give up Helix for "vim bindings".
I don't know if i'm ever going to get out of the terminal at this rate :s
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#3does remoting work with the REPL or notebooks yet?
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#4They pivoted pretty hard into AI, huh.
I remember when being multiplayer was their big selling point.
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#5God, how often are people gonna post this editor here. I guess you can sell everything as long as it says "AI".
Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next
#6I long for an editor like this to have very, very expansive support for all of the weird text editor choices. Ie the ability to effectively, not literally recreate Vim, Helix, etc in it. Sounds insane i know.. but i adore this editor and despite that, i just can't give up Helix for "vim bindings". I don't know if i'm ever going to get out of the terminal at this rate :s
There are a couple WIP PRs for Helix key-bindings in their repo. It is what I am also waiting for to try it out more seriously.
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#7I long for an editor like this to have very, very expansive support for all of the weird text editor choices. Ie the ability to effectively, not literally recreate Vim, Helix, etc in it. Sounds insane i know.. but i adore this editor and despite that, i just can't give up Helix for "vim bindings". I don't know if i'm ever going to get out of the terminal at this rate :s
There are a couple WIP PRs for Helix key-bindings in their repo. It is what I am also waiting for to try it out more seriously.
Oh i'll have to look at that - is it something i could build and run locally? I'd be willing to contribute
I've not tried building Zed locally, but i know i struggled with building GPUI on NixOS
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#8They pivoted pretty hard into AI, huh. I remember when being multiplayer was their big selling point.
I've been curious on when AI was going to feel compelling for me to try. I might give this a try.
I've had a subscription to some LLM service for ages, but overall i just haven't found it useful at all for programming. Maybe with this Context workflow it'll be nice.
Though from the video it sounds like it might be difficult to get access to it?
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#9I’ve never got its python LSP to work as well as Pylance in VSCode. Once you start using Pylance for large codebases, even if it is slow and sometimes crashes, you cannot go back to coding without it. Go to Definition, and automatic argument hints are too useful to code without
Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next
#10They pivoted pretty hard into AI, huh. I remember when being multiplayer was their big selling point.
I've been curious on when AI was going to feel compelling for me to try. I might give this a try. I've had a subscription to some LLM service for ages, but overall i just haven't found it useful at all for programming. Maybe with this Context workflow it'll be nice. Though from the video it sounds like it might be difficult to get access to it?
You definitely should try a workflow with modern LLMs, but if you have trouble with Zed give cursor a try. No relation to the company, just was surprised at how good the product was for me for your bog-standard python and typescript work, but also surprisingly good in some side projects in embedded C++ and C.
A lot of it is polish over how good Claude sonnet 3.5 has gotten at code with enough context.