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I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by onehair »

justinhj wrote: post #257
onehair wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't all have - 40 years experience with Emacs - the ability to predict that 20 years from when we started we would fall in love with Emacs - the fortitude of will to overcome the mountainous project that it is to turn Emacs, The text editor "toolkit", into the perfect text editor for you.

You may be surprised how short a path it is to the perfect emacs config for you.

Believe me I have tried. And already have made my config. Took me weeks, and is still no closer to getting to be up to par with what I get with helix out of the box.

It also is just super slow on windows unfortunately.

But one day, one day I'll switch

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #102
adonese wrote: post #93

Sublime is quite good. I have always been using sublime for quick edits, dumping notes etc. But lately I came to appreciate it more as a lightweight IDE. I use go (lsp and some plugins) and ST (sqltools) in addition to package manager and project manager. I like how fast it is, how well polished the editor is. And generally all plug-ins i use work nicely. Also claude helped a lot (eg writing some shortcuts for specif…

I love(d) Sublime and it's still getting updates from time to time, but unfortunately its ecosystem died five ish years ago, its package repository is a lot of "last updated 10 years ago". It's still a viable editor, but without community support it's not going to be good enough long term. That said, ST (and its predecessor, forgot the name) set the standard for "lightweight" (lighter than IDEs) editors - Atom, VS Co…

> last updated 10 years ago

Only a problem if the software has broken in that time period

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by lexoj »

adonese wrote: post #93

Sublime is quite good. I have always been using sublime for quick edits, dumping notes etc. But lately I came to appreciate it more as a lightweight IDE. I use go (lsp and some plugins) and ST (sqltools) in addition to package manager and project manager. I like how fast it is, how well polished the editor is. And generally all plug-ins i use work nicely. Also claude helped a lot (eg writing some shortcuts for specif…

Can you share the plugins name/configuration for Go in Sublime. There are so many options and configurations published so its hard to find a configuration that works as good as Vscode.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by madbbb »

bpasero wrote: post #131

We maintain a single VS Code setting that allows you to opt out of the AI features provided in VS Code: "chat.disableAIFeatures" (see also: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab... ). If you can still find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time…

I see a lot of AI features hate towards VS Code. Want to say that there are other people like me who really love these features, just want to thank you as a Copilot pro user!

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by nottorp »

compounding_it wrote: post #315
nottorp wrote: post #313

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> It is possible that from time to time a new AI related feature slips in that does not respect that setting You mean marketing forces you to "accidentally" slip it in? Just in case it sticks this time?

I don't know about marketing but if code reviews are done right I would love to know how something like 'AI feature' just slips in.

If the code looks correct, why not?

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Post by egorfine »

bpasero wrote: post #131

We maintain a single VS Code setting that allows you to opt out of the AI features provided in VS Code: "chat.disableAIFeatures" (see also: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab... ). If you can still find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time…

Could you perhaps one day make "chat.disableAIFeaturesMadeForShareholdersOnly"?

So that we can have the actual good stuff (copilot, chat) and leave out the mountain of features that were clearly created to force induced demand for the sake of metrics inflation?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by ustad »

scotty79 wrote: post #328
ustad wrote: post #317

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VS Code is a flagship product from Microsoft. Relying on “we try our best to push fixes as soon as possible” for a global opt-out setting feels below the engineering standards we’d expect. This should be fail-safe by design, not best-effort.

Everything in the world is best-effort at best. People who tell you otherwise about their pridhct are just lying to you. Do you prefer being lied to? Criticizing people for being honest about it is a good way to be lied to more.

I’d rather someone say “we architected this poorly and are working to fix the design” than “things slip through sometimes, report them when you find them.” The former is honest AND shows they understand the problem. The latter treats a design flaw as an acceptable steady state.

Being honest about shipping bugs is good. Being honest that you’ve designed a system where the same category of bug will keep happening? That deserves criticism, not praise for honesty.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by Etherlord87 »

verdverm wrote: post #298
mi_lk wrote: post #295

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What kind of rendering engine and why Zed has to build it?

not sure, they do something with the GPU for sure, and because how are you going to draw anything on a monitor or screen without a rendering engine? Surely in their code base they have multiple levels of abstraction for rendering, drawing, and layout in their code base. You can see these kinds of things in other comments here and on their github without reading code. The browser engine is itself an abstraction point…

Yes, the thing is, the browser is an extremely expensive abstraction layer. It's like having a car factory where everything is built by general purpose robots - it's very versatile, but obviously if you build an assembly line using dedicated machinery, it's going to run much faster.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by mkl »

stouset wrote: post #111
gkbrk wrote: post #47

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1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

1080p is neither high nor low DPI (dots per inch ). DPI requires knowing the physical size of a screen, not simply the number of pixels.

Try finding a new 1080p screen small enough to count as high DPI; there aren't many! Using 218ppi from elsewhere in the thread as the threshold, you'd need a 10 inch 1920×1080 screen to achieve it, so a 1080p computer screen is almost certainly low DPI.
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