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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by maxdeviant »

WCSTombs wrote: post #92
drewdevault wrote: post #60

Consider discarding the CLA if you anticipate third-party contributions. If you need to verify provenance, the Developer Certificate of Origin is a better approach. Otherwise, this (correctly) reads as a project which intends to take advantage of FOSS contributors for a while before pulling the rug and making it non-free again.

Also the "CLA" link just points to https://zed.dev/cla , which asks me to authorize Zed Industries to access my private GitHub profile. So at this point I don't even know what the CLA says. That's important because not all CLAs are created equal. I think some don't fully remove the contributors' ownership, which would prevent the hypothetical future closed-sourcing.

We've adjusted it so that the CLA can now be viewed without signing in.

Sorry about that!

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by totetsu »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #228

It took me way too long to figure out that Zed exclusively runs on OSX. Why is that not in the first paragraph of their landing page? edit: It's not even on the landing page, or even on the about page! The landing page has an entire section, "Work with code on any machine"! This is worse than bad.

Any Mac’hine.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by dmcgill50 »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #228

It took me way too long to figure out that Zed exclusively runs on OSX. Why is that not in the first paragraph of their landing page? edit: It's not even on the landing page, or even on the about page! The landing page has an entire section, "Work with code on any machine"! This is worse than bad.

It's at the bottom. Next to the download button

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by CharlesW »

elashri wrote: post #87

That's great news. I actually like their zed font [1] which is custom-built from Iosevka. [2]. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts [2] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

> https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts

Image of Zed Mono for the similarly-curious: https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1672307153699471360

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #228

It took me way too long to figure out that Zed exclusively runs on OSX. Why is that not in the first paragraph of their landing page? edit: It's not even on the landing page, or even on the about page! The landing page has an entire section, "Work with code on any machine"! This is worse than bad.

Tim Cook is happy

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by flexagoon »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #51

I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…

> older editors that are doing syntax highlighting via regex.

I mean, Emacs, which can probably be considered the oldest code editor at this point, got built-in tree-sitter (which is what Zed uses under the hood) support in the last release. So it's not really related to editors being new or old

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by zokier »

zozbot234 wrote: post #45
eviks wrote: post #28

Welcome news, hopefully we could eventually get to a modern highly extensible performant text editor!

This. Sure, Emacs is a modern, highly extensible, performant OS already but we all know it's missing a good text editor!

Emacs is great many things, but fast it is not. Nativecomp improved some stuff a bit and there has been other improvements lately too, but ultimately the core of emacs is built for flexibility, not for perf.

Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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Post by serial_dev »

thomastjeffery wrote: post #228

It took me way too long to figure out that Zed exclusively runs on OSX. Why is that not in the first paragraph of their landing page? edit: It's not even on the landing page, or even on the about page! The landing page has an entire section, "Work with code on any machine"! This is worse than bad.

The "Work with code on any machine" is confusing because it's not what you expect by glancing over the headlines. In the section they describe what they actually meant by it... It means that you can collaborate with others who have zed installed and run things on their computer, edit code etc.

I vaguely remember them being on the Rust podcast and I believe they said that they want multiplatform support but they first need to nail it on one platform before they go for the next.

https://rustacean-station.org/episode/antonio-scandurra/

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