Zed is now available on Windows

Post by flohofwoe » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 9:47 AM UTC

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #180

flohofwoe wrote: post #151

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Tbh though, is subpixel text rendering really all that important anymore when high resolution monitors are common now and low-dpi is the exception?

Most people I know are on 1920x1080 LCDs. Over half of PC gamers seem to be on that resolution, for example: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Post by mort96 » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 9:58 AM UTC

Fokamul wrote: post #229

mort96 wrote: post #157

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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

Post by johnisgood » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 10:09 AM UTC

neobrain wrote: post #204

johnisgood wrote: post #202

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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…

  # With dut
  find . -type f -name Cargo.toml -printf '%h\n' | sort -u | xargs -r -d '\n' -I{} dut -s {} | sort -h
  # With du
  find . -type f -name Cargo.toml -printf '%h\n' | sort -u | xargs -r du -sh | sort -h

  ripgrep $ cargo clean
     Removed 3411 files, 1020.2MiB total

  websocat $ cargo clean
     Removed 1726 files, 820.7MiB total

Post by dsego » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 10:14 AM UTC

mort96 wrote: post #157

trenchpilgrim wrote: post #144

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> 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.

Post by dsego » Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 10:25 AM UTC

KetoManx64 wrote: post #35

the__alchemist wrote: post #28

Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!

I still Sublime for quick text file changes and then Zed for programming/AI assisted tasks.