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Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by WD-42 »

pzmarzly wrote: post #145
internet2000 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want Zed to focus on accommodating WSL's quirks.

I would like Zed to have feature parity with VSCode from 6 years ago. Working well over SSH or WSL, which it currently doesn't, is a part of that, even if I don't use that everyday. I am a paying user, and have no plans to stop supporting them financially, but I wish they locked in and went through GH Issues queue, starting from the oldest.

Of course vs code accommodates wsl. Same company. Personally I couldn’t care less how badly MS wants to make windows a viable development environment. It’s more irrelevant every day. I’m glad zed doesn’t waste too much time on it.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by andersonpico »

4lx87 wrote: post #29
drdexebtjl wrote: post #23

This makes me uncomfortable. Maybe I’m pessimistic, but I think this just gives micro-managers the data they need to micro-manage you. It invites people to scrutinize the process, instead of the results. Not once have I wished to review a colleague’s conversation with an AI. I want to review finished work. I look at this and I can only imagine layoffs being justified with “bad prompt quality”. An incident retrospecti…

The way I’m seeing AI used by organizations is to produce process slop: tickets, summaries, docs, etc. rather than drive process change and optimization, or enable individuals to be more effective within the organization.

this is the perfect description of how I've seen AI used in most organizations

Re: Zed DeltaDB

#153

Post by WD-42 »

umvi wrote: post #75

Hmm, yeah before "DeltaDB" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecommen... - rejected because it "doesn’t match our design vision for Zed") This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. - Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the…

> This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views.

Have you considered using a keybind? They even show which keybind to use when you hover them.

Amazing that someone would prefer a vertical bar that is 85% empty, wasted space instead of pressing a few keys on the keyboard - for a text editor of all things.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by insane_dreamer »

yza wrote: post #38

Why develop this when the core editor is almost unusable? On Linux wayland, copypaste is broken, the file manager is laggy and snippets do not trigger before the heavy hint logic is done. This is just on top of my head, the list is long

I've been using this "almost unusable" editor daily on both Linux and Mac for the past year and now experience no issues. while I still have JetBrains I haven't used it at all in at least six months.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by insane_dreamer »

pknopf wrote: post #9

A non-existent problem that nobody asked to solve...

I disagree. JetBrains PyCharm has a similar "local history" feature that solves this very real and existing problem and has saved my ass more than once when accidentally overwriting changes before committing or fubar'ing a git reset.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by tbugrara »

NoDodgeQuestion wrote: post #6

Zed should focus on basics. When it focuses on basics Zed is good. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 failing to show newly created files and declining to provide a refresh button, instead adding a polling backend, breaks Zed on WSL. Why a new version control system? Why not git, jj, or another existing system?

FYI: I've had success with changing the file_scan_inclusions setting which forces the file watcher to rescan all projects. Doesn't work consistently unfortunately, but easier than restarting.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by ChadMoran »

dlisboa wrote: post #87
NoDodgeQuestion wrote: post #6

Zed should focus on basics. When it focuses on basics Zed is good. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 failing to show newly created files and declining to provide a refresh button, instead adding a polling backend, breaks Zed on WSL. Why a new version control system? Why not git, jj, or another existing system?

There should be a concept called "engineering privilege". I see some companies do things that are widely out of their core product and engineers there just having fun with a bunch of different stuff with seemingly no commitment to bring in revenue. They'll re-invent/re-write things constantly, write a new compiler/package manager for their chosen language, create new frameworks, new open source projects unrelated to…

I used to call this developer indulgence.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by NewsaHackO »

umvi wrote: post #75

Hmm, yeah before "DeltaDB" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecommen... - rejected because it "doesn’t match our design vision for Zed") This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. - Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the…

>This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views.

It’s crazy that is still an issue. I really tried to use Zed because I was trying to move away from VSCode and VSCodium did not have a featureful python lsp. I just couldn’t stand little things like that that. Also, the font was really blurry. VSCodium now has Pyfly which is decent, so I just switched back.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Post by NewsaHackO »

WD-42 wrote: post #153
umvi wrote: post #75

Hmm, yeah before "DeltaDB" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecommen... - rejected because it "doesn’t match our design vision for Zed") This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. - Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the…

> This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. Have you considered using a keybind? They even show which keybind to use when you hover them. Amazing that someone would prefer a vertical bar that is 85% empty, wasted space instead of pressing a few keys on the keyboard - for a text editor of all things.

Having keyboard shortcuts isn’t a valid reason for UI buttons to be unusable. If it should solely be accessed by a shortcut, then they should just remove the buttons altogether.
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