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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 magackame »

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #145
tonyhart7 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ok for what reason we need sub-pixel rgb anti aliasing here???? does we run game engine for code??

Subpixel antialiasing of fonts is a pretty standard feature for a few decades. Without it, text can look fuzzy on certain displays. > does we run game engine for code?? Zed literally does this; they render their UI using a graphics library just like a video game.

It's fun to see "GPU accelerated" and "like game engine" when literally every application is rendered the same way with the same APIs.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by StrangeWill »

Maxatar wrote: post #48
1a527dd5 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).

If you're using it via RDP then you won't notice any rendering performance issues since RDP itself has terrible rendering performance.

I've literally programmed with VSCode for basically a decade this way without issues. Zed lags, it's disappointing and if I really like Zed I'll have to sort out another setup.

MSTSC is one of the rock-solid tools from Microsoft, and does better than almost everything else available on the market other than some PC over IP technologies specifically highly optimized for this use case. I've been programming with an ancient ThinkPad forever because I'm just remoting into a much more powerful machine.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by ramon156 »

zargon wrote: post #189

I want to try Zed, but it’s not going to happen until they remove the nonconsensual download of unattested third party code.

What do you mean by that? The extensions? Do you want them to maintain that themselves?

Either you have a community that happily maintains extensions or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by osener »

homebrewer wrote: post #175
timfsu wrote: post #31

Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.

Check if it supports using typescript-go as your LSP. IDEA recently added this, and I've been using it for a couple of months already; it's fantastic.

https://github.com/zed-extensions/tsgo does exactly this

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by jhasse »

ramon156 wrote: post #233
zargon wrote: post #189

I want to try Zed, but it’s not going to happen until they remove the nonconsensual download of unattested third party code.

What do you mean by that? The extensions? Do you want them to maintain that themselves? Either you have a community that happily maintains extensions or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year

If you open a .cpp file it will silently download clangd in the background. Same is true for other language servers AFAIK.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by vitro »

Alupis wrote: post #66

Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold. The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significan…

One of the reasons why I'm not fully switching yet is a Zed's inability to update the currently open file with changes made elsewhere [1].

All the other editors I use are aware of outside changes, but not Zed. And I'm just not willing to close and reopen the file to get fresh contents. Eventually, I'll forget to do it and lose some work.

[1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15791

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by Novosell »

ramon156 wrote: post #233
zargon wrote: post #189

I want to try Zed, but it’s not going to happen until they remove the nonconsensual download of unattested third party code.

What do you mean by that? The extensions? Do you want them to maintain that themselves? Either you have a community that happily maintains extensions or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year

They clearly just want the option to say yes/no to the downloads, hence the use of the word "nonconsensual".

Seems like a reasonable ask.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by StrangeWill »

tom_ wrote: post #65
perching_aix wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does a text editor have to do to achieve >>awful performance<< when software rendering?

Maybe it's misdetecting something? I used to use Remote Desktop for game development sometimes, as weather could make the journey to the office impossible, and the performance was always pretty ok, even with UE5 stuff making heavy use of Nanite running at 1440p. And if it was actually software emulated, which I can't believe for a moment, though I admit I never checked (I just always assumed the window contents were…

> The input latency might not be as good as you'd like.

Yeah input latency is annoyingly rough, not super bad but _just_ laggy enough to make it annoying to use.

Debating how much I want to change things, I can directly punch into my Linux machine but all my dev IDEs are on a VM for a long list of reasons, and I doubt Zed is going to run on my old ThinkPad if it struggles on software rendering, but we'll see.

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