So now that it’s open a community effort to get Linux and other non-Mac ports of this could be a thing?
Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
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> VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I started using Zed. I guess you haven't used Sublime Text before?
I switched _to_ VSCode because Sublime was occasionally so slow at times that it was unusable. It was very fast 95% of the time, but then I'd `git pull` on a very big repo and my machine would become unresponsive while Sublime did...something.
I think on Linux at least it freezes due to watching too many files using inotify to update its sidebar. I wish there was an option to disable that. Same thing happens with Sublime Merge. It’s unusable on giant repos.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
It is not a lie, it just doesn't mean exactly what you want it to, and is certainly unintentionally misleading. You can work with code remotely on any machine.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#284It 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.
I'm expressing an opinion here. It applies as specific feedback, sure, but it was also intended for anyone casually listening: this is a very generalized problem that I would like people to be aware of.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#285Zed might be faster but Sublime Text at least runs on Linux, so it wins for me.
Agreed, but once Zed runs on Linux, I'll take an open editor over a closed one.
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You've chosen to let the Russians spy on your web browser?
I don't understand this comment because American/European governments (where I would guess most HN commenters are from) are almost certainly doing the same thing according to what we've learned about for example the NSA. Maybe you trust your own government more.
Most westerners I've spoken to think that even when a Western government does bad, there's probably good intentions behind it or at least more noble than any non-Western government.
On the flip side, even if you believe that, there's an argument to be made that if you live in the West then the Russians/Chinese care way less about you than the Five Eyes.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#288It 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.
> Work with code on any machine This is referring to remote editing support. Platform support is in their FAQ, but I agree it should be a bit clearer on the homepage. Perhaps the download button should say "Download for MacOS" or similar. I do think your comment here is unnecessarily rude.
> Work with code on any machine
> This is referring to remote editing support.
I agree with the OP, I thought it meant Zed was cross platform or something.
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Roadmap 2024, Adoption: Unix support https://zed.dev/roadmap
Isn't OSX Unix-based? I'm probably just ignorant, but what exactly does this mean? edit: oh you probably meant "Linux support" whoops ok
It _is_ Unix.