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Re: Zed is our office

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Post by adastra22 »

girvo wrote: post #193
tecoholic wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the AI stuff, it feels like they invested a bit prematurely. When the Agentic editing demo came out (6 months, 10 months ago? It’s a blur), it felt right. Accepting and reviewing edits, live tracking ..etc., felt like pair programming. The ACP addition felt like a natural evolution . With the continuous improvement in CLI tools and people’s experience with them, it feels like doing a live review or edit-by-edit…

The only editor integration I think is semi useful is wiring it into Diagnostics/Problems data that the editor has from extensions. Speeds up the agents flow quite a bit when it leans on that to check its work vs always executing (say) “eslint” directly. But that can be done easily enough with an MCP extension for your editor/IDE of choice

Claude hooks are great for this.

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Post by adastra22 »

maxbrunsfeld wrote: post #172
rsolva wrote: post #151

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Yeah, I have been fighting Zed to get agents to use podman on my host, but Flatpak is sandboxed and makes it almost impossible. The ideal solution would be that Zed could use podman or docker to spin up a container where agents could run free!

Agreed, we should support this!

It’s not just a nice to have. It’s a hard requirement. If I can’t launch agents within a sandboxed container, I can’t use your product - by security policy.

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Post by TheTaytay »

Unlike a lot of other commenters, I found this to be an interesting approach. Text files are good. Having an integrated environment that combines files and channels and collaboration seems like a neat idea, and I could imagine building all sorts of neat stuff on it.

However, I just tried it myself and was really shocked to see other people in my sidebar after I clicked on the “collaboration” stuff. I expected to be dropped into my own collaboration environment built around my own channels, like a fresh private Slack instance, but instead I saw the built-in Zed channels and as I clicked around, it looked/sounded like I was joining voice channels. It was as if I’d accidentally joined someone else’s Discord. It was so mentally jarring that I got afraid I was on a live mic or would accidentally be live-sharing stuff with strangers.

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Post by adastra22 »

mikaylamaki wrote: post #148
UtahDave wrote: post #144

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Looks like development of DeltaDB has been discontinued. https://github.com/delta-db/deltadb?tab=readme-ov-file#-upda...

That is a different project :D Here's our overall pitch: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...

Is this / will this be open source? I have a direct immediate need for this and was about to break ground on greenfield implementation. Had no idea Zed was working on something similar. I would of course much rather collaborate than maintain a competing VCS.

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Post by ThinkBeat »

oh good Slack embedded inside my editor. Just exactly what I have always wanted.

When it comes to writing tool the trend has been strong that people want distraction free writing with no interruptions.

Seems like code editors are going the other way on speed.

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Post by qmr »

girvo wrote: post #192
BinaryPie wrote: post #102

I generally like what Zed is trying to become. However, all of these features and blog posts are frustraing when they struggle to keep basic editor features stable. Edit a file outside of the editor? It's not going to show up in the project pane or the git diff. Need to work inside a container because it's 2025 and we don't need to clutter our local machine with 100s of dependencies and env managers... well now all t…

I know this is silly but the biggest thing that’s driving me away from it is how god awfully blurry it looks on my 1440p screen :/

So they're optimizing for 1080p or 4k?

No settings to adjust?

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by adastra22 »

bitbasher wrote: post #106

Maybe I'm old, jaded, stubborn and paranoid, but something about a coding editor that is controlled by a company is off-putting to me. It's even more off-putting when you add Zoom, Slack and everything else into said editor.

AFAIK it’s all open source. If they go off the rails we could fork it.

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Post by valtism »

sunnyps wrote: post #98

> Despite attempts to make Atom—an Electron application—more responsive, it never reached the performance standards the team yearned for. This feels like an attempt at deflecting blame. VSCode is another Electron application that ended up having better performance than Atom. There's another Electron adjacent application that has good performance , the one you're probably using right now to read this page. Depending o…

VSCode has good performance, especially for how feature complete it is, but it really has nothing on the boot speed of Zed

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Post by viraptor »

adastra22 wrote: post #230
rounce wrote: post #225

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> Need to work inside a container because it's 2025 and we don't need to clutter our local machine with 100s of dependencies and env managers... “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” Kidding, but seriously though I’ve found having to work in a container to be a bit clumsy, even with good tooling around it. As you said it’s 2025, and there are other ways to have reproducible toolchains that don’t pollute th…

In the case of AI tools it is for security reasons, not just reproducible toolchains.

We need more selinux and sandbox-exec in daily dev lives. There's no reason to bring a whole new system along just to restrict some access.

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by giancarlostoro »

BinaryPie wrote: post #102

I generally like what Zed is trying to become. However, all of these features and blog posts are frustraing when they struggle to keep basic editor features stable. Edit a file outside of the editor? It's not going to show up in the project pane or the git diff. Need to work inside a container because it's 2025 and we don't need to clutter our local machine with 100s of dependencies and env managers... well now all t…

My favorite bug was Claude Code kept editing some template file. Zed kept auto-formatting the file, which was BREAKING the template itself. It took me like 30 minutes of watching Claude implode, and literally using "ed" to edit the line, before I realized, then I started asking Claude how to turn off the Zed formatters to which it was like AH THAT MAKES MORE SENSE, which I thought was hilarious after it tried everything from editorconfig onwards.
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