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Re: Zas Editor

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Post by webmobdev »

Annili wrote: post #174

Zas Editor developer here. I think it’s important to address a problem a few people have mentioned so far: no data is collected other than your Mac’s serial number, which used to be used for finding how many computers a license is used on (we no longer do that) We’re going to add a privacy policy in the website. We haven’t already done that because we didn’t really expect this much attention within hours of releasing…

Thank you for not releasing this software on a subscription / rent-a-software business model, and for reasonably pricing it. Most SaaS applications make me feel like a hostage to them, and just not worth the expense and hassle of it.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by ushakov »

webmobdev wrote: post #191
Annili wrote: post #174

Zas Editor developer here. I think it’s important to address a problem a few people have mentioned so far: no data is collected other than your Mac’s serial number, which used to be used for finding how many computers a license is used on (we no longer do that) We’re going to add a privacy policy in the website. We haven’t already done that because we didn’t really expect this much attention within hours of releasing…

Thank you for not releasing this software on a subscription / rent-a-software business model, and for reasonably pricing it. Most SaaS applications make me feel like a hostage to them, and just not worth the expense and hassle of it.

yep, feels refreshing to own software you pay money for

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by jatins »

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 didn't think it was a dark pattern at all. In anything, they are quite explicit about it.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by gampleman »

As a an aside: I wonder if we are hitting a local maximum in terms of programming languages/ecosystems. These days if you want to experiment with some truly novel programming concept (see for instance Unison, Dark, Luna), you have to compete with truly excellent IDEs, Git, excellent code hosting like GitHub, large open source package ecosystems, high quality linters and auto formatters, and other niceties.

So if your language/ecosystem can't take advantage of those things (for instance not being traditionally text based), you have a huge cost before you can meaningfully demonstrate any superiority. To do that you probably need dozens of people working for several years, and I don't think the economics are there for it.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by Annili »

jatins wrote: post #190
Annili wrote: post #174

Zas Editor developer here. I think it’s important to address a problem a few people have mentioned so far: no data is collected other than your Mac’s serial number, which used to be used for finding how many computers a license is used on (we no longer do that) We’re going to add a privacy policy in the website. We haven’t already done that because we didn’t really expect this much attention within hours of releasing…

At least from the website this looks really nice and brings with it some fresh ideas -- kudos on the ship! Tangential: Are you the only developer on this? How long did it take from first line of code to current state? This sees like a monumental effort, so curious.

I’m not the only developer, but I’ve %90 of the work. Hopefully, we can get more support and expand

> How long did it take from first line of code to current state?

It started out as a part-time side project and after a while I started working full time on it. So, I’m not sure I can give an accurate answer to your question. The first commit was made in August 2020

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by jamil7 »

febeling wrote: post #189
jamil7 wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, people in this thread are praising the one time purchase but I'm almost seeing it as a red flag - how do we know a niche product like this will stick around without recurring revenue? I don't know if that's paid major upgrades or similar. Edit: As a sibling comment pointed out it does actually do paid upgrades after a year so ignore my comment.

Permanent license with one year of upgrades is - for serious users - a yearly subscription. With a price tag of $25 that sounds quite reasonable and also viable.

You're right sorry I totally missed the fine print...

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by speedgoose »

rplnt wrote: post #145

> 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.

VSCode opens in 1s on my machine (macbook pro m1). Good enough for me.

Re: Zas Editor

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Post by madeofpalk »

Dave3of5 wrote: post #158
rplnt wrote: post #145

> 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.

Fast and slow are relative. VSCode opens within about 2 seconds on my machine which for me is fast. For some users they want it to open even faster than that so something like vim makes sense. Visual studio 2019 on the other hand takes about a minute to a large project and with resharper even longer.

I am surprised at just how slow Visual Studio proper is compared to VS Code, at things like typing and updating linting/compiler warnings.
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