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I'd love to try this, though the large number of projects that only support MacOS perplexes me. This excludes at least 80% of people with computers that would like to use your software and effectively limits it to a class of folk with money, creating a sort of nasty exclusivity to the software that does this when there doesn't seem to be a platform-limiting factor. Their Windows Support Issue was opened on Jun 29, 20…
Makes sense..
One thing I do use Zed heavily for, though, is their assistant panel to interact with GPT-4-Turbo. That panel is really well done (its essentially a text editor), and using GPT-4 on a pay-per-request basis instead of $20/month for ChatGPT is just much more cost-effective for me. The panel stores all previous conversations in a folder on your system too, so it's easy to grep through it if required. You can even edit the model's reply, just like on the OpenAI Playground.
I'd love to try this, though the large number of projects that only support MacOS perplexes me. This excludes at least 80% of people with computers that would like to use your software and effectively limits it to a class of folk with money, creating a sort of nasty exclusivity to the software that does this when there doesn't seem to be a platform-limiting factor. Their Windows Support Issue was opened on Jun 29, 20…
I'd love to try this, though the large number of projects that only support MacOS perplexes me. This excludes at least 80% of people with computers that would like to use your software and effectively limits it to a class of folk with money, creating a sort of nasty exclusivity to the software that does this when there doesn't seem to be a platform-limiting factor. Their Windows Support Issue was opened on Jun 29, 20…
PowerPoint, Photoshop, Excel, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere, Atom, and After Effects were all released first on the Mac. In fact the only applications I'd call landmarks that weren't initially released on the Mac are Word and VS Code, which weren't released first on the Mac for obvious reasons.
This is a text editor similar-ish to VS Code, though Code is made by MS so yeah. Sublime’s first release was on Windows.
Atom supported all three above at release.
Other landmark software not launched exclusively on Mac first; Steam, Google Chrome(though I guess based on WebKit, itself based on KDE-built KHTML, so I guess WebKit can be added to the list).
btw, I got a Quest 3 recently. I saw that you work in that area, so thanks for the awesome software. Quite enjoying it so far.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings
If you've been looking for an excuse to learn Rust, check it out.
If Zed plan to open source the editor, what is the monetisation strategy? Paid features like "multiplayer"? How does that feature work for companies that don't allow code to leave their networks? > GPUI rasterizes the entire window on the GPU Other programs I have seen do this on Linux and Windows tend to have blurry fonts. I hope that is not also the case here.
Then I went to update to a newer version and Zed stopped working and I can’t revert back to an older version. I see someone else also has the same bug filed. Hope they can figure out the fix. I miss using Zed.
So instead of making an app people can actually use (outside of the 10 people with Macs) they're rewriting large parts of it instead? Makes sense..
> We've also laid down a solid foundation for upcoming improvements such as multi-platform support
The old UI may have been terribly written to support anything other than macOS. A rewrite is the right play if you identify that.
I'd love to try this, though the large number of projects that only support MacOS perplexes me. This excludes at least 80% of people with computers that would like to use your software and effectively limits it to a class of folk with money, creating a sort of nasty exclusivity to the software that does this when there doesn't seem to be a platform-limiting factor. Their Windows Support Issue was opened on Jun 29, 20…
* Project’s developers use Macs - you are going to code to what you use. If the source was available then I’d say the onus is on developers for the other platforms to port it if they want it
* Simpler target - both in hardware and software Mac as a platform is easier to target IMHO. Like some of the new AI stuff that gets ported to Mac or built for Mac, even if the hardware isn’t the best available (GPUs mainly but also CPU) it’s a known quantity and set configuration. Every M3 is like every other M3. Much easier than “Hey I have 2 ABC123 video cards, how do I use them with your library?”
* Smaller problem space - instead of having to deal with the lowest common denominator or edge cases in other OSes you can focus on just 1. That greatly simplifies things.
Windows may be 80% but the configurations are wildly different and Macs are far more homogenous (with less baggage due to less focus on backwards compatibility). You might be hard pressed to find a subset of the windows population who all have a similar homogenous makeup that rivals the Mac size. Similarly an iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone, the same is not true at all for Android even though its market share is much higher (aside from the US).