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…you’re free to use other editors? People like Zed. They like IntelliJ. They like VSCode. If you have an aesthetic preference against all professionally maintained IDEs, I think you’re in the minority.
...doesn't mean the majority is right :)
I really really don't want comms or multiplayer tools in my IDE. Don't bring the attention economy to my cave of solitude, it's where I go to escape all that noise
This is a strong divider between types of minds. I respect your type, but know that others exist and they want these things. It's not crazy, it's just another way.
I really really don't want comms or multiplayer tools in my IDE. Don't bring the attention economy to my cave of solitude, it's where I go to escape all that noise
This is a strong divider between types of minds. I respect your type, but know that others exist and they want these things. It's not crazy, it's just another way.
Maybe I'm old, jaded, stubborn and paranoid, but something about a coding editor that is controlled by a company is off-putting to me. It's even more off-putting when you add Zoom, Slack and everything else into said editor.
AFAIK it’s all open source. If they go off the rails we could fork it.
Maybe I'm old, jaded, stubborn and paranoid, but something about a coding editor that is controlled by a company is off-putting to me. It's even more off-putting when you add Zoom, Slack and everything else into said editor.
…you’re free to use other editors? People like Zed. They like IntelliJ. They like VSCode. If you have an aesthetic preference against all professionally maintained IDEs, I think you’re in the minority.
I personally worry it's not interoperable enough.
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> 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... “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” Kidding, but seriously though I’ve found having to work in a container to be a bit clumsy, even with good tooling around it. As you said it’s 2025, and there are other ways to have reproducible toolchains that don’t pollute th…
> “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” The "just use Nix" people are just like the "write it in Rust" brigade. And the things both groups promote share exactly the same problem ... A stupidly enormous learning curve. That's why your average person prefers to just the job done in a container vs Nix, or in Go vs Rust. I'm sure Nix is awesome, just like I'm sure Rust is awesome. But honestly, I've got enough…
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> 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... “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” Kidding, but seriously though I’ve found having to work in a container to be a bit clumsy, even with good tooling around it. As you said it’s 2025, and there are other ways to have reproducible toolchains that don’t pollute th…
> “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” The "just use Nix" people are just like the "write it in Rust" brigade. And the things both groups promote share exactly the same problem ... A stupidly enormous learning curve. That's why your average person prefers to just the job done in a container vs Nix, or in Go vs Rust. I'm sure Nix is awesome, just like I'm sure Rust is awesome. But honestly, I've got enough…
Nix similarly forced issues to be reasoned with upfront.
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> “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” The "just use Nix" people are just like the "write it in Rust" brigade. And the things both groups promote share exactly the same problem ... A stupidly enormous learning curve. That's why your average person prefers to just the job done in a container vs Nix, or in Go vs Rust. I'm sure Nix is awesome, just like I'm sure Rust is awesome. But honestly, I've got enough…
So you rather stay comfortable doing what you were always doing, which is fine but programming is everything but that...
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With the AI stuff, it feels like they invested a bit prematurely. When the Agentic editing demo came out (6 months, 10 months ago? It’s a blur), it felt right. Accepting and reviewing edits, live tracking ..etc., felt like pair programming. The ACP addition felt like a natural evolution . With the continuous improvement in CLI tools and people’s experience with them, it feels like doing a live review or edit-by-edit…
I used to only use JetBrains for AI stuff, now I just open everything in Zed because of its Claude Code integration. Especially with the linters and other nice to haves. I am insanely close to cancelling JetBrains.