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Technically really impressive. In practice, completely unpractical in any medium to large organization. And although I adore Zed's speed and reliability, I still don't understand why we need these features at all.
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optimized for HiDPI screens (like those on Apple devices)
ohhh... is this that thing where people say "blurry" to describe anti-aliasing, because they actually want it to be pixelated?
(Though there must be some cutoff point past which the pixel size becomes irrelevant. I certainly don't mind reading stuff on the iPad.)
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optimized for HiDPI screens (like those on Apple devices)
ohhh... is this that thing where people say "blurry" to describe anti-aliasing, because they actually want it to be pixelated?
It's like they're rendering a high resolution font at low resolution using the simplest possible algorithm without lining it up with the pixel grid. It's very fuzzy. Characters have this weird sort of additive color intensity where strokes intersect that reminds me of Geometry Wars. It's broken.
They are working on it; the Windows build has decent rendering, and apparently the Linux version substantially improved recently. But they haven't gotten to macOS quite yet. I've been checking in on Zed every few weeks since it went public waiting for a fix.
I think collaboration for people who eventually use the software will be more critical in the era of agentic coding. Project Management will change. We are not waiting for 2 weeks to build prototypes, it gets done in a hour. What does that mean for end users - do they prompt their changes and get access to new software? Who would double-check, would AI reviews be good enough, would AI agents collaborate along with humans in the loop?
There are so many questions not answered. If anyone is keen on having these talks, I would happy to share what I think. Here is what I am building: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo
I want to see a future where end users can prompt their needs, have collaborators in the company to help clear things up and in an hour the feature/issue is tackled and deployed.
Whenever a product tries to be too many things, it dilutes the core USP. Try to be an excellent code editor. Add extensibility. Done. I get it, you are VC funded, investors want to turn this into a multi billion dollar unicorn. Do not focus on investors, but developers.
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Docker is just a shim on kernel isolation APIs. It’s not any different, but better packaged. But irrelevant in this case. I dev on macOS. I’m not aware of any other options.
sandbox-exec. It's not great, but it's usable. https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/ > It’s not any different It's very different. With docker on Mac you're running a VM which runs a wrapped up complete system that runs your app. With selinux/sandbox-exec you run just your app and can skip the extra packaging needed for docker and mounts. (And get the extra performance)
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sandbox-exec. It's not great, but it's usable. https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/ > It’s not any different It's very different. With docker on Mac you're running a VM which runs a wrapped up complete system that runs your app. With selinux/sandbox-exec you run just your app and can skip the extra packaging needed for docker and mounts. (And get the extra performance)
Does selinux/sandbox-exec work on a Mac? Is this an apples to apples comparison?
> 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…
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…