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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 jdejean »

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…

Whoops!! Pesky mistake. An AI feature bypassed the AI opt-out setting yet again. What are we gonna do with all this data now??

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by coldtea »

dangus wrote: post #306
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.

You can pry Cheesecake Factory brown bread and Olive Garden breadsticks out of my cold dead hands.

Wouldn't it be a shame dying with those in one's cold dead hands, without ever learning how much better options exist?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by sixothree »

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…

How do you refactor code?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by [deleted] »

gosub100 wrote: post #386
Majromax wrote: post #384

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Share repurchases are also a way of returning cash-flow to owners. A stock buyback is equivalent to a dividend, just with automatic reinvestment in the default 'do-nothing' case. Including buybacks, few large and mature companies fail to return profits to shareholders at all, and we'd ordinarily want growing or startup companies to retain earnings and invest.

You are just reciting the "fancy reasoning" that I already mentioned. All the esoteric stuff is designed to do is concentrate the wealth into the hands of the wealthy. It is a step away from fractional ownership.

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by limagnolia »

gosub100 wrote: post #386
Majromax wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Share repurchases are also a way of returning cash-flow to owners. A stock buyback is equivalent to a dividend, just with automatic reinvestment in the default 'do-nothing' case. Including buybacks, few large and mature companies fail to return profits to shareholders at all, and we'd ordinarily want growing or startup companies to retain earnings and invest.

You are just reciting the "fancy reasoning" that I already mentioned. All the esoteric stuff is designed to do is concentrate the wealth into the hands of the wealthy. It is a step away from fractional ownership.

There is nothing fancy about it. The reasoning is straight forward and has the exact same impact that paying dividends has, from the perspective of the shareholder. (Well, actually in some ways maybe a better impact, as it makes complying with idiotic tax laws easier)

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by cyberpunk »

maleldil wrote: post #379
mwest217 wrote: post #272

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Vim, neovim, and helix all handle multiple-GB files fine!

> neovim I have to turn off my config (-u NONE) for large files (e.g., multi-GB JSON files), or everything slows to a crawl. I never profiled it to know what's causing the slowdown. It might be treesitter.

syntax hi-lighting is the usual culprit in regular vim when pasting or piping a big blob of json i’ve found

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by cdelsolar »

coldtea wrote: post #392
dangus wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can pry Cheesecake Factory brown bread and Olive Garden breadsticks out of my cold dead hands.

Wouldn't it be a shame dying with those in one's cold dead hands, without ever learning how much better options exist?

tell me something tastier than olive garden breadsticks

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by Etherlord87 »

verdverm wrote: post #369
Etherlord87 wrote: post #338

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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

This is why Electron is so popular. Building entire factory is very expensive.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by presbyterian »

rcleveng wrote: post #170

I'd love to try Zed, but it's unusable on MacOS ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/20806 seems to be the issue). If that ever gets fixed then I'd look at replacing Sublime (which is still my go-to for quick editing) and then see if it can handle more advanced coding (which one the rotating list of various vscode forks handle today)

Have you tried BBEdit recently? It's incredibly configurable, AI features are entirely opt-in, and it supports LSPs now. It's my go-to for basically all text editing these days.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by e12e »

delichon wrote: post #239
r4victor wrote: post #38

Hi, I'm the author of the post. I hope it resonates with many who got tired of VSCode and found Zed. I'd also like to add there are many small features I miss in Zed that I don't go over in the post, e.g. autodetect and respect file's indentation ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4681 ). But I see Zed is actively shipping the missing features, so I believe they'll improve significantly over the next year…

Your blog appears to have been hugged to death. I look forward to reading it someday.

https://archive.is/aaJh4
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