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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…
Uhm... tried to use it but it feels so lacking. Yeah, fine - it's "lean" (text?) editor but that's about it. Opening any project (even with plugins enabled) doesn't make feel any "improvements" (code navigation, sane autocomplete, project structure detection)...
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That's more of an issue with your system than an issue with Zed, you have to veer pretty far from the beaten path to not have proper DirectX nowadays. Are you running Windows in a VM?
No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
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A 400mb+ install of bloat will upset many people This needs to be justified asap to help people understand and reconsider installing it.
Will it though? I mean it's a lot for a "text editor", but much less than a classical IDE. And 400M is pretty negligible if you're on Windows, where your OS takes up dozens of GB for no reason.
For people who are serious about their text editors, 400m is a small price to pay for something that works for you.
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RAM isn't cheap (it may be for your tasks and wallet depth, but generally it isn't, especially since DDR5). Shared objects also get "deduplicated" in RAM, not just on disk.
What objects is the Zed process using that would even be shared with any other process on my system? Language support is mostly via external language servers. It uses its own graphics framework, so the UI code wouldn't be shared. A huge amount of the executable size is tree-sitter related.
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> I was always under the impresion that Rust apps are pretty lightweight, but that install size is nearing Java levels of binary/dependency bloat. For what it's worth, the zed executable on Linux weighs 3.2 MB. EDIT: Sorry, the nix store is too good at hiding things from me. It's actually around 337 MB plus webrtc-sys.
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…
Or the fact that there is incremental compilation artifacts...
And of course the amount of dependencies. A single project might depend on hundreds of crates (quite common), each compiled separately with its own build artifacts. sighs.
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…
What does having a DevContainer get you? I’m all for documenting every bit of my setup, but beyond that…
In the devcontainer you can run code snippets, use the system shell and access an execution environment close to production if well made.
It also allows to avoid (system) dependency conflicts between different projects you may work on.
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…