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Zed is now available on Windows

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Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by lenkite »

neobrain wrote: post #204
johnisgood wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just compiled "zed" with "cargo build --release" and not only did it pull >2000 dependencies, its size (executable file) is literally 1.4G. Debug is 1.2G. $ pwd /tmp/zed/target/release $ ls -lh ./zed -rwx------ 2 john john 1.4G Aug 28 17:10 zed --- $ dut zed/ | sort -h 598M 0B | | /- webrtc-sys-0a11149cbc74bc90 598M 0B | | | /- out 598M 0B | | |- webrtc-sys-090125d01b76a5e8 635M 160M | | /- s-hal7osjfce-1h7vhjb-4bd…

Unstripped, perhaps? ls -lh /nix/store/63rdpgbzn7f1smh7688crcrpfsh833bb-zed-editor-0.199.10/bin/zeditor -r-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 3.2M Jan 1 1970 /nix/store/63rdpgbzn7f1smh7688crcrpfsh833bb-zed-editor-0.199.10/bin/zeditor EDIT: Ah, it was too good to be true. The true binary is hidden in libexec/.zed-editor-wrapped :( ls -lh /nix/store/52smrb1z8r4n71zx50xagkcdrhlga4y5-zed-editor-0.207.4/libexec/.zed-editor-wrapped -r-x…

Probably due to treesitter modules for many languages compiled in. AFAK Treesitter's codegen is unfortunately a share nothing between different languages. So a dozen language parsers can easily cross upward of 200 MB.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by submeta »

So many new options. NeoVim and Helix in terminal, Zed as a beautiful GUI editor. - A few years ago I thought it’s Emacs/vim for us hackers, and for the rest it’s Sublime, and later VS Code, and then comes nothing. But wow, here we are: Ever more options. I‘m loving it.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by vietvu »

no-stegosaur wrote: post #201
vietvu wrote: post #99

I didn't know bundling app for the most popular OS is that hard.

In January 2024 zed was open sourced, with only mac support. One week later Dzmitry Malyshau showed up with a prototype renderer for Linux. In July 2024 official Linux builds were available mostly thanks to community contributors. The swift Linux support is a tale of community steppung up to open source development, not one of manufacturer provides something. So Windows is certainly not popular with the kind of crowd…

For Zed user, yes. They don't care (I too, didn't use Windows for years, but Windows is popular is a fact, not opinion).

What I meant was there are so many problems with Windows that the team cannot do it quickly (they post about it before: https://zed.dev/blog/windows-progress-report).

Just surprised, as I thought building GUI app on Windows must be easy right, as must be libs/frameworks already available to support that? It's just not.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by lintfordpickle »

maccard wrote: post #207
kettlecorn wrote: post #113

I've been using Zed primarily for months but I just switched back to VSCode for 2 reasons, one of which is kinda my fault and the other it's unclear where the fault is. 1. I deleted a few hours of work because I was late night coding and I decided to rename a file before check-in and delete the old version. Well I renamed it and Right-Click -> Deleted the new version by accident. It turns out Zed has both "Delete" an…

> Delete skips the trash and Zed does not implement Ctrl+Z yet, I'm not going to claim Zed has a good UI in this space, but saying it doesn't implement Ctrl + Z for a feature which is literally "skip the undo-ability of this option" is a bit misleading.

While I understand your point, and think you are correct - if the 'Trash' button is not behind a confirmation box, and it's not undoable, then that is a pretty terrible design choice.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by magackame »

pjmlp wrote: post #137
landr0id wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strangely it's the actual binary's .text section that's about 400MB. Time to dive in!

Welcome to static linking of large applications. The world moved into dynamic linking in the 1980's for a reason. It is cool to advocate for a return to static linking when it is basic CLI tools.

All those beautiful dlls will anyways sit comfortably in the same folder as your "dynamically" linked executable on Windows.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by no-stegosaur »

Athari wrote: post #205
linhns wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the most popular for programmers

It is, based on Stack Overflow survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular... Couldn't find a way to access Statista report. It obviously varies a lot by the preferred languages, but Windows is still at the top, on average.

I hope you realize that Linux in this table is split up into many individual options where the others are not, i.e. that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch etc also all count towards Linux?

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by pjmlp »

magackame wrote: post #225
pjmlp wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to static linking of large applications. The world moved into dynamic linking in the 1980's for a reason. It is cool to advocate for a return to static linking when it is basic CLI tools.

All those beautiful dlls will anyways sit comfortably in the same folder as your "dynamically" linked executable on Windows.

They might be, or not.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by lintfordpickle »

earthnail wrote: post #211

I absolutely love the idea of Zed, and I'm regularly giving it a go. Typing in Zed really feels better than VSCode. It's hard to describe, but impossible to discard once you've used it for a short while. Unfortunately, there's a bunch of small things still holding me back. Proper file drag & drop for one, the ability to listen to audio files inside the editor, and even a bunch of extensions, in particular one that sh…

I have to ask because I just can't wrap my head around it, what does 'ability to listen to audio files inside the editor' mean for a text editor?

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by Fokamul »

mort96 wrote: post #157
trenchpilgrim wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The world moved into dynamic linking in the 1980's for a reason. Reasons that no longer exist. Storage is cheap, update distribution is free, time spent debugging various shared lib versions across OSes is expensive.

Storage doesn't really feel cheap. I'm considering buying a new laptop, and Apple charges $600 per TB. Sure, it's cheaper than it was in the '80s, but wasting a few gigabytes here and a few gigabytes there is quickly enough to at least force you to go from a 500GB drive to a 1TB drive, which costs $300.

Bro, with this mentality, you won't get far in Apple universe.

Embrace your wallet will be owned by Apple. Then you can continue.

Sorry, but people buying Apple products are different bread :D

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