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Re: Zas Editor

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Post by [deleted] »

johnsea wrote: post #116
Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

Can't you add some sort of impressum to the website where you give some information about you?

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Re: Zas Editor

#142

Post by alin23 »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #136

Quite an asshole way of phrasing "it is a subscription" with very small letters. At least it's a dark pattern.

I have the same licensing model in Lunar (https://lunar.fyi/) You buy the app as is now, and you get to keep this version of the app forever. Just like you would buy any other good.

On top of that, you also get 1 year of free updates, and you get to keep using those new versions forever as well.

How is this a subscription?

Why should the developer work forever for you on a meager $25 payment?

Re: Zas Editor

#143

Post by amarant »

Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

Hi! This looks really cool, great work! It seems to be Mac-only for now, is Linux support on your roadmap at all?

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by cormacrelf »

hit8run wrote: post #140

Hey. I'm an Editor/IDE aficionado. This could be the start of a really nice macOS native editor. Panics Nova is nice but it is lacking good Go support. However there are many things to get right. These things are needed in order to get competitive imho: - Plugin API - Plugin Marketplace - Proper LSP (you seem to have that already) - DAP Support (you stated you are working on it. Good!) - Out of the box support for go…

On the plugin API, meh. I've spent a lot of time making Vim work for me over the years, adding all sort of plugins etc. Would that time have been better spent using something that was complete & worked already?

The answer is technically no, because I've used more than two languages in that time, more like 25 different dev environments I needed my editor to cater to. If you're only using one language, this is great. Everyone has better things to do than the meta-work of making a dev environment. For most people the dev environment is noise that gets them no closer to actually achieving something. Not having a plugin API means it's impossible to waste your time on that.

If this is a yearly subscription, and you can request features / improvements, then you should think of it as "I've got a guy (girl/etc) in Canada who handles my dev environment for me".

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by rplnt »

> Native. Fast. Lightweight.

Comparison is missing editors that would compete with this. VS Code is huge and slow, but somehow people use it and love the extensibility and broad support. Goland is just a beast that does so much more it's not even in the same league.

What would make sense in the comparison chart is something like ST3.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by sverhagen »

hit8run wrote: post #140

Hey. I'm an Editor/IDE aficionado. This could be the start of a really nice macOS native editor. Panics Nova is nice but it is lacking good Go support. However there are many things to get right. These things are needed in order to get competitive imho: - Plugin API - Plugin Marketplace - Proper LSP (you seem to have that already) - DAP Support (you stated you are working on it. Good!) - Out of the box support for go…

Praise to all IDEs (or any app really) that manages to bring a good offering across platforms, instead of just tailoring to macOS (or Windows for that matter). But I'll sit here and take my downvotes now :-)

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by asimpletune »

Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

I really like that it’s a one time price. Thanks for your work!

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by cute_boi »

amarant wrote: post #143
Annili wrote: post #4

Hi everyone! I'm the lead developer of Zas Editor. I wanted to share some details about the editor you might be interested in. The text-storage data structure, syntax highlighting and search features are written in Rust, and the UI is written in Swift since we wanted to create a native macOS experience. The Swift and Rust code talk to each other using C FFI, and no, that doesn’t take away the safety features of both…

Hi! This looks really cool, great work! It seems to be Mac-only for now, is Linux support on your roadmap at all?

As it is written in Swift, I highly doubt linux support is in their roadmap.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by rplnt »

alin23 wrote: post #142
kissgyorgy wrote: post #136

Quite an asshole way of phrasing "it is a subscription" with very small letters. At least it's a dark pattern.

I have the same licensing model in Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi/ ) You buy the app as is now, and you get to keep this version of the app forever. Just like you would buy any other good. On top of that, you also get 1 year of free updates, and you get to keep using those new versions forever as well. How is this a subscription? Why should the developer work forever for you on a meager $25 payment?

> Just like you would buy any other good.

Software is not a "good". If you bought "go ide" a year+ ago and your updates ran out, you can throw it away now.

> On top of that, you also get 1 year of free updates

They are not free, you subscribed to them by paying the subscription. What is free is the copy of the software after your subscription ends.

> How is this a subscription?

It's a subscription because the product you buy is supported for one year.

> Why should the developer work forever for you on a meager $25 payment?

This is irrelevant to the topic at hand.

FWIW, I think it's a good model, for both user and the developer, but I would not try to pretend it's not a subscription with a big bold text. Just avoid the word and all is good.

Re: Zas Editor

#150

Post by hajhatten »

ranguna wrote: post #117
hajhatten wrote: post #57

Been wanting something like this for a while now to switch from vscode. Considering not even terminals are safe from phoning home telemetry. You guys are charging for this, how much telemetry is the app sending home? Wish you guys all the luck.

You should try vscodium, it's vscode minus all the Microsoft bs

It's a shame vscodium isn't being talked about more.

However, would really love something native as I run so many windows of different projects at once in a regular day.

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