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I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by tristan957 »

seabrookmx wrote: post #115
r4victor wrote: post #44

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That's a good idea. I considered VSCodium but the issue is that I used VSCode's proprietary extensions such as Pylance. So it would require to switch to OSS replacements at which point I decided why wouldn't give Zed a try – it has a better feeling by not being an Electron app. I think VSCodium is a good option if you need extensions not available in Zed.

Basedpyright and ty should both work under vscodium.

Basedpyright is really good. I've been using it in neovim for a while. I'm currently evaluating ty. It is definitely not as good, but it is also really new.

I appreciate that we have good alternatives to pylance. While it is good, it being closed source is a travesty.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by roland35 »

cdelsolar wrote: post #397
coldtea wrote: post #392

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Wouldn't it be a shame dying with those in one's cold dead hands, without ever learning how much better options exist?

tell me something tastier than olive garden breadsticks

The breadsticks are also dairy free! Shocking but amazing for my poor lactase free stomach

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by stouset »

gkbrk wrote: post #184
stouset wrote: post #112

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Perhaps reserve your mind being blown for situations where the GP hasn’t confused pixel count and pixel density. Zed “supports” 1080p monitors just fine. Supports is in quotes because it doesn’t need to do anything nor care at all about the count of pixels on the screen.

If you can call the left image [1] "supporting 1080p" I guess Zed supports it. But it looks like VS Code and other editors somehow support it better without getting blurry. Keep in mind that Zed developers [2] consider blurry fonts on low DPI displays a Priority 1 issue, and a reproducible bug that is commonly encountered. I'm sure if there was no blurry font issue with Zed, they would just close this bug report. [1]…

Low DPI fonts and 1080p resolution are orthogonal concerns. Pixel count and pixel density are not the same thing.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by rstuart4133 »

intern4tional wrote: post #227
colbythrowaway wrote: post #215

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Hey, Ben. I recently (less than 2 months ago) did an in-depth analysis in the area of license compliance that suggests that Microsoft and many other companies that are shipping Electron apps aren't in compliance with the LGPL. (By all signs, it looks like the Electron project might not even be aware that Electron is subject to the LGPL, though they are. Even Slack, which isn't violating the license appears to be in c…

Assuming this is real and you have the authority to share your work from previous location; you should reach out and contact Microsoft Legal directly. A random engineer on Hacker News is not the proper channel. Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/compliance/sbc/report-...

I'll give you another example. The "Microsoft Tunnel Gateway" is a end point for Microsoft's InTune VPN downloadable as a docker image for Linux from here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/prot...

I had a brief look at the docker image, and it's pretty clearly a repackaged version of OpenConnect. Debian's copyright linked to from https://packages.debian.org/sid/openconnect says it's primarily LGPL but with a plethora of other licences like the GPL.

Since there is GPL they are required to make some source available, and if they modified it they are required by the LGPL to make their modifications available. They have extended it by adding Microsoft's authentication mechanisms, but perhaps that is just a DDL mixin, and I could well believe / forgive them not being aware of the other licences.

What is not so easy to forgive is them not acknowledging the open source they used in any way. Instead they slapped as pretty standard Microsoft Licence claiming it's all theipr own work, similar to this one: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-softwar...

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by seoulbigchris »

yndoendo wrote: post #253
echelon wrote: post #216

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I'd like to attach to this comment to say that we should support smaller companies. It doesn't matter how responsive a big company is if it controls too much surface area of the important technological salients. Large company hegemony of our industry is bad. VSCode, Google Search + Chrome, mobile phone duopoly, Amazon/AWS/MGM/WholeFoods/TeleDoc conglomeration and cross promotion... It doesn't matter. We need more dis…

Fun fact. I do not financially support any restaurant that has a Wall-street ticker. I wish more people would do this. There should be no reason to fund some CEO on Wall-street when we can benefit more by funding local communities. P.S. You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and to engage with Amazon.

At first, I thought you meant restaurants which had a big scrolling ticker along the wall so patrons could watch the market while they dine.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by chuckadams »

justinhj wrote: post #257
onehair wrote: post #117

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We don't all have - 40 years experience with Emacs - the ability to predict that 20 years from when we started we would fall in love with Emacs - the fortitude of will to overcome the mountainous project that it is to turn Emacs, The text editor "toolkit", into the perfect text editor for you.

You may be surprised how short a path it is to the perfect emacs config for you.

No one reaches the perfect emacs config. It's an asymptote.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by bjackman »

gabeidx wrote: post #321
bjackman wrote: post #310

Zed is faster and less annoying than VSCode, I hope to switch to it permanently sooner or later. Annoyingly the only hard blocker I have right now is lack of a call-graph navigation widget. In VSCode you can bring up an expandable tree of callers for a function. Somehow I am completely dependent on this tiny little feature for reading complex code! The annoying thing is: "can't you just use an extension for this?" No…

Does "Find All References opt+shift+F12" function help mitigate this for you? It opens a buffer that you can use to navigate, and it's a built-in feature not an extension. Or do you want a more graphical tree view?

Yeah need a tree view. Find all references, and references to references and so on.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by dangus »

coldtea wrote: post #392
dangus wrote: post #306

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You can pry Cheesecake Factory brown bread and Olive Garden breadsticks out of my cold dead hands.

Wouldn't it be a shame dying with those in one's cold dead hands, without ever learning how much better options exist?

I’m quite aware that better options exist. I’ve dined at multiple or different 2 Michelin star restaurants, not to brag or anything.

But sometimes this “corporate bad” mentality is just vapid snobbery. I’m better than you because I don’t support big bad corporate.

Of course, companies aren’t created equal, regardless of size or status of being public or private. Some are run very well and ethically and some are not.

I am sure we can find many mom and pop businesses that do shady things that no public corporation would be caught dead doing.

Did you know, small landlords are exempt from equal housing laws? Mrs. Murphy exemption.

If I go to an Olive Garden I know I’m getting the exact same experience everywhere, I know exactly what amenities and facilities they’ll have, and I know what price I’m going to pay.

Even though Cheesecake Factory is a public company they’re doing more real kitchen prep work and in-restaurant cooking than my local bar and grille that’s reheating premade Sysco food.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by dangus »

cdelsolar wrote: post #397
coldtea wrote: post #392

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Wouldn't it be a shame dying with those in one's cold dead hands, without ever learning how much better options exist?

tell me something tastier than olive garden breadsticks

Dipping them in a never-ending choice of marinara, five cheese, and Alfredo dip.
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