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Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by nicce »

tekacs wrote: post #13
greymalik wrote: post #10

Honest question - why use Zed, other than it is fast and “not VS Code”?

It's very 'batteries-included', for one thing - when a novice wants to code, I recommend them Zed because it'll just handle and manage LSPs for them for a variety of languages. Meanwhile with VSCode step 1 of installing and using it for e.g. Rust is to go and install a random extension (and the VSCode store, whilst sorted by popularity, can be intimidating / confusing for a novice, who might install a random/scammy e…

The biggest problem with VSC for me is that sometimes undo history is completely broken with VIM. If you don't commit frequently, it is very easy to mess up the with the project and lose all your work, if you undo anything.

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by nicce »

rtfeldman wrote: post #6
submeta wrote: post #4

When I heared that Zed is VC backed, it was a signal to move away from it. Emacs, NeoVim will be here in fifty years from now. VC backed companies don’t have a guarantee. VCs except too much, and pressure founders to pivot if they don’t seem to fulfill the promise for 20x return. See what happened to Evernote. Or SoundCloud.

Zed is open-source under GPLv3 - https://github.com/zed-industries/zed That doesn't guarantee it will have paid contributors indefinitely, but the same is true of the other editors you listed. It does, however, guarantee that if Zed (the company) were to disappear, community members would be free to continue using the Zed editor (and developing it) in perpetuity!

The problem is the concern of future development. Zed the company controls what gets merged. If it is profitable to leave some features out, will they leave them even if there is PR? Or something else. Compare it to the problems of Chromium.

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by kcrwfrd_ »

leohart wrote: post #25

I like Zed. It's super fast and seems to be getting lots of improvement constantly. My issue with it is when I use it on my codebase, it doesn't like my (probably old style) eslintrc. So it decides to go ahead and reformat my file on save :(.

I think this would be pretty trivial to fix zed’s autoformatter settings.

Re: Bring Your Own Agent to Zed – Featuring Gemini CLI

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Post by thomascountz »

leohart wrote: post #25

I like Zed. It's super fast and seems to be getting lots of improvement constantly. My issue with it is when I use it on my codebase, it doesn't like my (probably old style) eslintrc. So it decides to go ahead and reformat my file on save :(.

You can disable this in your global or project settings, and even per language: https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#format-on-save
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