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

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Post by gertop » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:26 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #341

Draiken wrote: post #295

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Mostly for SV startup folks. In other words: Apple fanboys. Jokes aside, the US is notoriously dominated by Apple, but it's not the same worldwide.

The dev profession is notoriously dominated by Apple. It’s weird to say that something that’s only for Mac is not for developers.

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

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Post by gertop » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:29 AM UTC

metaltyphoon wrote: post #354

wilsonnb3 wrote: post #330

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Windows is the most popular developer OS according to the 2023 stack overflow survey, for both professional and personal use.

You have to remember that you're on HN and windows doesn't exist around here.

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

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Post by nikolay » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:33 AM UTC

shane_kerns wrote: post #360

No Terraform support even though there is an LSP?

Yup, the issue has been open for months!

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

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Post by v3ss0n » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:40 AM UTC

No Linux and windows support yet. This needs a big wait time then.

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

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Post by NIckGeek » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:41 AM UTC

I just tried Zed and it is definitely really pleasant to use. I'd need at least a Java LSP to use it for real (and preferably general LSP support so I can code in my own programming languages with it) but I can see a lot of promise. If they ship a Linux release so I could use it on my desktop too they could win me over from Sublime Text/IntelliJ.

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

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Post by DiabloD3 » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:41 AM UTC

I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only.

Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.

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

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Post by iamnbutler » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:43 AM UTC

6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #119

I recently went down the rabbit hole on CRDTs and would love to know more about what you're using under the hood. Did you roll your own?

nathan wrote a large post about this! https://zed.dev/blog/crdts

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

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Post by bschwindHN » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:50 AM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #100

> GPL for the editor, AGPL for server-side components). GPUI, the UI framework that powers Zed, will be distributed under the Apache 2 license, so that you can use it to build high-performance desktop applications and distribute them under any license you choose Interesting choice on licenses. —- I’m been super happy with Zed, my main requests (and I’ve sent in this feedback to them or contributed to existing GitHub…

Funny you mention that because I felt Zed had _too many_ buttons & icons for things compared to Sublime Text. I feel they could do without the dedicated stuff for GPT/Copilot and others, and sweep them away to the command palette.

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

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Post by slowtec » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:50 AM UTC

itishappy wrote: post #332

silcoon wrote: post #275

Great idea having a Rust editor fully open-source, and I also saw the GPUI crate in the codebase. Happy to try it! P.S. For the first 5 minutes I thought Zed was developed by Meta... please change that blue :D P.S.S: it's incredibly fast, and already has rust-analyzer included.

Heard of Helix? It's a bit more Vim to Zed's VSCode, but it's open source and Rust too! It also comes with rust-analyzer and tree-sitter included. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix

Helix is awesome, fast, elegant and works everywhere. I wonder what unique selling points Zed has that could motivate me to switch?

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

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Post by machomaster » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 2:53 AM UTC

mcfedr wrote: post #132

machomaster wrote: post #130

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I have the same issue in Yandex Browser (based on Chrome) on Android.

You've chosen to let the Russians spy on your web browser?

This is such a non-issue.

1. I live in the EU and I would worry much more about my country/Union spying on me than foreigners.

2. In the same token I trust Yandex much more than Google. And yes, I am competent enough to make that assessment. The same goes with using the world's best antivirus in Kaspersky vs. using something weaker from Five-Eyeish+block.

3. Yandex Browser is technically good. But the main killer feature for me is having the address bar on the bottom of my screen. This should just be a common-sense default for mobile browsers, yet it is't.