i've heared about Zed for a long time and it seems promising but as long as it's not on windows/linux it's not for developers.
Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
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Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#22How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.
Zed developer here, You can come try it out with us right now if you like: https://zed.dev/channel/zed-283
Though you'll have to sign the CLA first :)
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#23How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.
I only joined Zed, the company, a week ago, so take this with a grain of salt, but:
I've never really used real-time sharing (tried VS Code's Live mode and other apps) for longer than just 1-2 attempts, but at Zed things are different somehow. Everybody is constantly available in a channel and people just hop in or out. In the last 7 days I spent 3-5hrs every day pairing with others, using Zed's live mode. No video, only audio and sharing code in Zed (no video was weird at first, but now I think I'm starting to get used to it?)
IMHO it's a combination of culture and technology, but when the mix of that is right it really feels game-changing.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#24I looked at some random files, did not find a single comment, very strange.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#25I am so happy to see GPUI now open source. This is very exciting, really grateful to the team at Zed to do this.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#26Zed developers, if you read this, please get inspired by Cursors "Fix it" button that you can click on any error. It simply starts a new chat with the code context and error message, suggesting possible fixes. I'm currently learning Rust and this is such a powerup that I honestly wouldn't know how to learn anything without.
Zed developers, please don't. I don't want my core editor potentially sending out my code to who knows where or wasting cycles analyzing it.
If people want this just let it be a plugin.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#27How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.
Honestly, it's pretty cool in my experience; in VSCode everyone gets their own "client-side navigation" so while you are typing something, your coworker can go look up a function for you in another file, etc. Even though they exist in "your" instance, they still get Go To Definition, Find References, type-on-hover, etc.
Realistically though it doesn't replace every instance of screen sharing, for me. It's also cultural to some extent I guess. For things like debugging or being intro'd to a new codebase, I think it's great, though.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#28Welcome news, hopefully we could eventually get to a modern highly extensible performant text editor!
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Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#30Very nice to see that it uses native IME. You can test it by pressing ctrl+cmd+space on macOS and see if the Emoji picker shows up.
Lapce is another text editor written in Rust but it does not support native IME yet.