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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

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

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I hope this leads to Zed being ported to other platforms (Linux, please!)

Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!

Hey! Thank you for this cool editor! However, has it been written with cross-platform support in mind? Otherwise, porting from mac to linux could be rather painful and time-consuming... Will there be an ETA for us linux users? I saw it on the roadmap [0] but without an ETA.

[0] https://zed.dev/roadmap

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

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You're joking, right?

Looking for collaborative editors in particular. Two people editing at once, on different computers. Each person has their own copy of the file, on disk.

Both VSCode and Intellij can perform this function.

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

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I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…

I’m really picky about my tools in general and latency in particular, and I give Zed a spin from time to time, it’s sweet. Clean, minimal design aesthetic, tree-sitter, tight code, it’s a nice bit of work and I dig it a lot. But emacs 29 with the right flags and a tuned GC (no one does this! it’s got a heap-size from the 80s!) is just as snappy and has more amazing packages than VSCode. There’s a market for people wh…

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

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I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only. Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.

Most programmers I know prefer macOS above all other. Is it different where you’re from?

There are obviously more programmers on Linux and Windows than on Mac, no matter your bubble. Since zed is Mac only, necessarily most programmers won't use it

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

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How do you get a reasonably fancy Emacs to start up/open files quickly? Every time I try to get into EMacs after adding a few packages it becomes painfully slow to open a file for editing. Then I try to understand Emacs server, then I fail / give up and go back to vim.

Open it at 8am, close it at 8pm

Hahahaha. A dev I work with who has been using eMacs for 30+ years is well known at my company for having eMacs sessions open for 6+ months at a time.

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

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I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only. Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.

Most programmers I know prefer macOS above all other. Is it different where you’re from?

Linux remains quite popular among software developers.

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

#387

I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only. Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.

As said by someone in another thread,linux support is on their roadmap[0].

Stay tuned for that. 0: https://zed.dev/roadmap

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

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post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m really picky about my tools in general and latency in particular, and I give Zed a spin from time to time, it’s sweet. Clean, minimal design aesthetic, tree-sitter, tight code, it’s a nice bit of work and I dig it a lot. But emacs 29 with the right flags and a tuned GC (no one does this! it’s got a heap-size from the 80s!) is just as snappy and has more amazing packages than VSCode. There’s a market for people wh…

How do you get a reasonably fancy Emacs to start up/open files quickly? Every time I try to get into EMacs after adding a few packages it becomes painfully slow to open a file for editing. Then I try to understand Emacs server, then I fail / give up and go back to vim.

I've been using emacs as my main editor for years now and don't find the startup speed to be an issue - to the point I've never bothered with emacsclient:

It starts up with ~77 packages in half a second.

This is my config.

https://gitlab.com/ideasman42/dotfiles/-/tree/main/.config/e...

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

#389

I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only. Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.

Sure, but if you live in the bay, you'd be forgiven for assuming that 80% of developers use macs, 17% linux and 3% windows. Developing mac first makes perfect sense to me.

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

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I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…

how to you use ollama with vscode? some links/ details would help me a lot!

I use this extension: https://continue.dev/ their docs are pretty good, but it's also evolving pretty rapidly. For example, you no longer need to run the continue server yourself, it's entirely self contained in the vs code extension. I believe the docs still refer to how to run it manually.

I work for a pretty conservative company re: GAI, and the ollama + continue combo made it through legal.

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