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I think it's just a TAD annoying that this stupid thing uses API key based cost when it has a perfectly good x20 subscription to work with. I just burned through my entire API budget.
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Every single new HN thread should come with an automod post badmouthing Electron to save everyone time.
its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.
It works off the Claude Code SDK, which mean it doesn't support many of the built in slash commands - it doesn't support /compact, which is 100% necessary because when you use this implementation enough, you'll eventually get a "Prompt too long" error message with no ability to do anything about it. Since you can't see how far you are in the context window, it's a deal breaker, since you have to start a fresh chat and might run out of room before you can ask it to create a summary prompt for continuing.
There is no way to switch models that I can tell - I think it just picks up on your default model - and there is no way to switch to Plan mode, which has become absolutely crucial to my workflow.
I didn't see Zed picking up on problems reported in the IDE, it was defaulting to running 'tsc -b' in my directories.
At this point it's better to run a terminal inside Zed and work from there. The official response in the Zed Discord has been "talk to your local Anthropic rep" to get them to support Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
Zed is my favorite editor in a long time, and thats without diving into its AI support.
At first I was very dismissive of it due to being Apple-first but they've turned it around with really good Linux support and it seems like Windows soon as well!
My main issue with claude code is running multiple ones in parallel. I don't want to manually do all the git worktree stuff, I just want claude to handle it for me. So if Zed automatically handles that (where there's a worktree per thread) I can see the appeal. Apart from that, I'm already using Tower to view the changes so I'm not really sure what the value here is. I tried installing it, and got an error "can't loa…
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Every single new HN thread should come with an automod post badmouthing Electron to save everyone time.
its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.
Absolutely nothing new has been said about Electron since like 2015, it's boring as hell to downvote and scroll past.
I can't believe people are ok with horizontally layed out tabs.
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its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.
This will never happen and it's a bizarre, legacy fantasy, borne of a fixed imaginary ideal of what computing should be. Programming will continue to move in the direction of ease-of-use and every time I see an out-of-topic reference to Electron in this forum I feel insane, like I'm fighting upstream. You will not see this - you will see more Electron apps, because that is the modern way of building cross-platform ap…
This is literally their whole distinguishing feature and people are switching because of it and just it.