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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
#392I'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…
> But I can’t imagine switching my main axe up with a holy shit moment a lot crazier than tree-sitter in 2024 and not having the render loop be in JS.
Congratulations for winning HN sentence of the year before the end of January.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#393Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#394Congratulations and kudos on picking a strong Free Software license! Thank you for pushing the world into better places.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
> VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I started using Zed. I guess you haven't used Sublime Text before?
I switched _to_ VSCode because Sublime was occasionally so slow at times that it was unusable. It was very fast 95% of the time, but then I'd `git pull` on a very big repo and my machine would become unresponsive while Sublime did...something.
This is very strange to me, because I have always used Sublime Text for super-giant corporate repos, and always found it snappy compared to vscode. Wonder if it was a specific usecase or something...
Every little while, I try to make vscode my main editor, because I enjoy all the features. I always switch back to Sublime just because VSCode's slowness bugs me.
Haven't really tried Zed in earnest yet, though, because of no custom LSP support.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How many countries are you knowledgable about?
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#397Great 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 doesn't have a plugin system:
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#398I was excited, but then I saw it was Mac only. Weird choice, most programmers will never even look at this editor.
I don't think that's quite fair. The stackoverflow survey shows a large number of developers have made the move to Mac. Certainly not the majority, but a very healthy share. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
Anecdotally, Mac has become very popular at my workplace, with a growing number of developers choosing Mac for their primary device. We mostly target Linux, so regardless of workstation we're usually remoting into a Linux box or running some VM/Docker setup locally. When I can work on projects locally without a VM, the interactions on Mac feel a lot more natural compared to Windows.
I don't think I would switch back to a Windows machine any time soon, although if I was offered a Linux laptop I'd be very tempted.
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#399Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. For example, in vscode if the sharer start a http-service the port can be port forwarded through the session so anyone in the session can interact with the service. Pretty neat and useful!
I find it as interesting as mob programming. Anyone can interact with common team servers. It is one of those things that developer advocates love to show at conferences.
Maybe I'm opening the lid to the industry's best-kept secret, but every team I've worked on used SSH with a shared tmux session for pairing. There are probably more complex tools that cover every use case, but I never encountered much demand for one.
Re: Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
#400Tried Zed some time back, the performance was pretty good as compared to VS Code, though gave up when they chose to implement other fancy / collaborative features before implementing the most basic requirement from an 'editor' - Search and Replace. Contacted them but there was no response. Looks like they have replace now, so worth trying again (still hard to give up all the features of Sublime Text yet).