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Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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post #12

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It's a pretty decent editor to be fair. The AI features are probably there to raise money from investors.

If it's so decent why isn't there even a version for Windows....

Wouldn't that would imply that Windows support is necessary for software to be good? Often it's easier to write good software when you target a specific platform (rather than spending time troubleshooting problems that occur across lots of different environments), and do it well.

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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I’ve been trying to love Zed for months now and still run into constant snags. It’s frustrating to use with TypeScript. Support is very intermittent as basic features randomly break and come back during the same session. Want to jump to a declaration? Maybe it’ll work. Want information about this type? If you’re lucky. How about autocomplete for existing types, variables, and functions? This probably breaks most ofte…

To be honest, I've had very similar results with TypeScript using neovim, helix and emacs. The tooling somehow never works correctly, or needs a lot of tinkering until the experience is decent.

As a comparison, I write Rust as my main language, and the tooling always _just works_. The experience with Zed is very good. Maybe the time for Zed in TypeScript development is not yet there, but if you write any Rust code, it's worth a try.

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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post #42

I’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

As far as I know Pylance (unrelated to pypi's pylance) is python LSP with microsoft's proprietary extensions that you can use only with official microsoft products. btw, go to definition, argument hints can work without it just fine.

I’ve not gotten it working properly in Zed though, have others managed to do so?

Re: Zed – The Editor for What's Next

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I know Pylance (unrelated to pypi's pylance) is python LSP with microsoft's proprietary extensions that you can use only with official microsoft products. btw, go to definition, argument hints can work without it just fine.

I’ve not gotten it working properly in Zed though, have others managed to do so?

It works in Emacs. Don’t know about Zed (if there is an issue, it is likely temporary)
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