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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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Post by edgyquant »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #220
9dev wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. The worst thing is that I get mad at them for not doing what I want them to, faster, when the tooling and my crooked explanations are at fault, not them. Not that I mention that out loud, but sometimes I feel ashamed for those feelings. Having real time collaboration that works so seamlessly as Zed apparently does would really get me to consider switching IDEs!

Seems like VNC or similar would be a better solution. Might need to use a terminal or other program. Instead of confining it to one application.

You can share terminals in live share and even share servers etc. I’ve had no issues and I’ve built multiple teams that are very collaborative at this point. Dozens of engineers

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

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Post by xpl »

tbeseda wrote: post #143
Bnjoroge wrote: post #128

zed's great but they need to prioritise remote ssh like vscode. literally the main way most people do dev

Gonna need a citation on that. I _highly_ doubt most developers write code across a secure shell.

Not "most" but certainly many. I love remote dev (via Remote Containers in VSCode) for large C++ codebases (which could not even compile on my Macbook because of different architecture). Running `clangd` LSP on my local machine would be a nightmare (it could easily eat dozens of CPU cores and tens of gb of RAM when indexing), but on remote workstation it is a breeze. Also I could work on multiple branches simultaneously, spinning multiple VMs and running VSCode remotely on them. So basically my Mac is just a typewriter and everything heavy happens on a remote VM — isn't it nice?

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

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Post by tptacek »

depressedpanda wrote: post #374
mcpherrinm wrote: post #328

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Let me quote two of the entries from the "In Comments" section of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. Expressing negative opinions is fine. But perhaps you should have a fear of being rude. We are a community, and there's plenty of other people r…

If you value kindness, consider empathy. The person you're somewhat haughtily tone policing is obviously annoyed about wasting a totally unnecessary amount of time on something ultimately useless to them. And the feedback was constructive (and easily actionable): be upfront about the very limited platform support, don't waste people's time.

You're trying to high horse a complaint about someone referring to a new open source release as "worse than bad"? Because it doesn't support their preferred operating system? And it took them too many clicks on the website to learn that? No, that won't do.

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

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Post by eviks »

xigoi wrote: post #141
eviks wrote: post #28

Welcome news, hopefully we could eventually get to a modern highly extensible performant text editor!

What’s wrong with Neovim?

A lot of things, from limited keybinding support due to terminal limits, unergonomic extension language, very poor default setup, lacking good GUI, poor multicursor support, lack of core Zed's feature - collaboration

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

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Post by c0balt »

archon810 wrote: post #336
misternugget wrote: post #55

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I think that is on the roadmap too, but possibly further down.

Is there some place I can subscribe to the Windows release notification?

Maybe the tracking issue for Windows support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394

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Post by appplication »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #51

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…

VSCode has always felt incredibly slow to me, even compared to e.g. pycharm. , which I have always assumed of be otherwise roughly comparable. VSC’s lag in basic code inspection and linting became so annoying I had to switch off it. We’re not talking seconds, but maybe tenths of second lag, for everything at all times. I understand plenty of people love VSC, but honestly I have never been able to share that enthusiasm.

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

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Post by Yodel0914 »

svennidal wrote: post #372
DiabloD3 wrote: post #366

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?

It's different for anyone working in a corporate environment, where no one cares what you prefer.
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