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

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Post by registereduser » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:19 PM UTC

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.

I'm frequently confused when coming across hyperbolic comments like these. You can just say: "feedback: make it more clear that it currently only supports MacOS". Calling it worse than bad is a stretch.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:19 PM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #202

kristopolous wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just sour about lack of Linux support, it's like I'm in 1998 again except now instead of Microsoft Windows ignoring us it's Apple macOS. A WINE like project for macOS software would be great

Because if there's one thing Linux needs is a good text editor! :-D

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

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:24 PM UTC

dimgl wrote: post #171

Bnjoroge wrote: post #128

zed's great but they need to prioritise remote ssh like vscode. literally the main way most people do dev

Almost no one uses remote SSH to do development.

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

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Post by lolinder » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

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.

This might be bad in its own way, but I saw that the screenshots were 100% macOS and immediately assumed that it was Mac only and closed the tab. I actually had to go back and look because I could have sworn that I saw it written somewhere, but no, it was just the screenshots and the general feel of the text that clued me in.

I think part of it is that apps that are designed to be multi-platform don't tend to use macOS screenshots because maxOS is a minority of their users.

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

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Post by warthog » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

I really did not need another choice overload complex, particularly when it comes to my choice of code editor. Though this seems good.

Somebody please tell me what to use. No "depends on what you wanna do". Just which one.

Thank you

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

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Post by kyawzazaw » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

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.

sounds hyberbolic

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

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Post by imbnwa » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

overtomanu wrote: post #184

Is Java not supported language?

Yeah noticed that, gotta be way more Java than Go and Rust combined in the wild

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

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Post by kyawzazaw » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

warthog wrote: post #265

I really did not need another choice overload complex, particularly when it comes to my choice of code editor. Though this seems good. Somebody please tell me what to use. No "depends on what you wanna do". Just which one. Thank you

JetBrains

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

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Post by iamnbutler » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

vimsee wrote: post #137

What really impressed me is how fast it changes the theme colours. Locate the little arrow in the top right, click it and then select "Theme". Now use your arrow keys to change the theme and see for yourself. :)

CMD+K->CMD+T can get you there one step quicker!

At least these days we order the themes by dark then light... Themes used to be grouped by name, so you would get rainbow flashbanged moving down the list!

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

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Post by davidmurdoch » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 10:28 PM UTC

registereduser wrote: post #261

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.

I'm frequently confused when coming across hyperbolic comments like these. You can just say: "feedback: make it more clear that it currently only supports MacOS". Calling it worse than bad is a stretch.

It's "worse than bad" because it's just a flat out lie?