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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 DoctorOW »

yndoendo wrote: post #253
echelon wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to attach to this comment to say that we should support smaller companies. It doesn't matter how responsive a big company is if it controls too much surface area of the important technological salients. Large company hegemony of our industry is bad. VSCode, Google Search + Chrome, mobile phone duopoly, Amazon/AWS/MGM/WholeFoods/TeleDoc conglomeration and cross promotion... It doesn't matter. We need more dis…

Fun fact. I do not financially support any restaurant that has a Wall-street ticker. I wish more people would do this. There should be no reason to fund some CEO on Wall-street when we can benefit more by funding local communities. P.S. You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and to engage with Amazon.

I recently moved to Wisconsin and decided it was only appropriate to only buy local. Sure, it tastes better but I was surprised to see it was cheaper too. I guess it doesn't matter how much of your food is plastic and sawdust if you have to pay to haul it an extra hundred miles.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by rahen »

My only complaint regarding the Zed editor is the inability to display two panes of the sidebar one below the other. Not only is it impossible to display them together, but switching between them requires clicking a tiny button in the status bar. To make matters worse, performing a search hides the symbols and the tree view.

So right now I'm sticking to Emacs.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by presentation »

childintime wrote: post #318

Few people seem to recall that MS is making tsc, the typescript compiler, faster, and as a result VSCode: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...

If you are a TypeScript developer, this is typescript inference and compilation performance, not the compiled code at runtime.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by never_inline »

egorfine wrote: post #336
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?

You can probably phrase this question as

* Can we enable the only features we want by toggling chat.disableAIfeatures and only selectively enabling copilot and chat?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by gosub100 »

dijit wrote: post #344
yndoendo wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact. I do not financially support any restaurant that has a Wall-street ticker. I wish more people would do this. There should be no reason to fund some CEO on Wall-street when we can benefit more by funding local communities. P.S. You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and to engage with Amazon.

I think this is quite ironic actually. If I understood the history correctly, being a "shareholder" was a path to a fractional business ownership for people who could not afford to outright own a business. It comes from the same mental position as a co-operative. In these scenarios, a CEO is really just an employee of sorts for the shareholders. It's quite funny that we see the CEO of a publicly traded company has wo…

Not just that, but if it were "fractional ownership in a business" then every profitable company would pay a dividend. Now it has become normalized to not do such a thing with all sorts of fancy reasoning.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by verdverm »

Etherlord87 wrote: post #338
verdverm wrote: post #298

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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.

But you also have to build your own factory and assembly line, which isn't faster to begin with and takes a lot of effort to get their. Zed still has issues with basics like font rendering and GPU usage from excessive redraws / repaints

Meanwhile, chromium works reasonable well on billions of devices of all shapes and kinds

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by mirawelner »

I really love Zed bc it’s fast and doesn’t try to run the code for you. I really dislike the “play” feature of IDEs. I learned Java in eclipse and for the linear time don’t know how to run it from the terminal. It has all the editing and highlighting features of a full ide but makes you run it from the terminal. And if you have Zellij or another muxer set up, it runs it in the Zed terminal automatically.
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