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That’s because Python lacks good open source lsp. That’s true for other open source editors.
Yes.. but all that really matters in a zero sum game is that Vscode and cursor have good Python integration and zeds is not good. I live zed otherwise but I have to do Python all day so I don’t use it
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Yes yes, all your friends are rich, good for you.
4k displays are available at just a few hundred bucks these days, I'd hardly call that being rich.
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It's absolutely remarkable that these folks are writing this from scratch in Rust. That'll be a long-term killer feature for the editor. Do you think GPL3 will serve as an impediment to their revenue or future venture fundraising? I assume not, since Cursor and Windsurf were forks of MIT-licensed VS Code. And both of them are entirely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill to continue developing VS Code in the open. Tange…
> entirely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill to continue developing VS Code in the open. The premise of many open source licenses, including MIT, is that the user is _not_ dependent on the developer. No matter what MS does, the latest pulled version of VS Code will remain working and available. MS could license future VS Code versions under more restrictive licenses, however the Cursor devs can continue to use and th…
In theory everyone can fork Chrome and Android, in practice none of the forks can keep up with Google's resources, unless they are Microsoft or Samsung.
I wanted Zed to work as a high performance dev-enabled Markdown editor as I was looking to replace Obsidian that doesn't scale well (memory use and cursor latency degrades with document size, and generally what I suspect is a weak foundation). My use case is active note taking(PKM) and reviewing including a few large (1-2+ MB) markdown files. However, to my surprise, the performance for Markdown was much worse - it's…
The thing I really need from my markdown editor is pasting images that then show inline, so I don't have to waste screen space with a "preview pane". So far the only editor I've found that does this is Typora.
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Interesting. I actually like the editable format of the chat interface because it allows fixing small stuff on the fly (instead of having to talk about it with the model) and de-cluttering the chat after a few back and forths make it a mess (instead of having to start anew), which makes the context window smaller and less confusing to the model, esp for local ones. Also, the editable form makes more sense to me, and…
> I actually like the editable format of the chat interface because it allows fixing small stuff on the fly Fully agreed. This was the killer feature of Zed (and locally-hosted LLMs). Delete all tokens after the first mistake spotted in generated code. Then correct the mistake and re-run the model. This greatly improved code generation in my experience. I am not sure if cloud-based LLMs even allow modifying assistant…
It’s funny that they lead with AI tools. I love zed because it’s fast, customizable, has a clean interface and it’s easy to pair program. The LLM bit is just an annoying thing I shut off because imo I’m too junior at the moment to use LLMs
I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.
Thank you, I bring this up in every Zed thread on the internet, hopefully the devs will eventually fix it. Until they do, Zed is simply unusable on regular-DPI displays, at least in light mode. See these screenshots: Example Zed screenshot, using "Ayu Light": https://i.ibb.co/Nr8SjvR/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-11-10... Same code in VS Code: https://i.ibb.co/YZfPXvZ/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-13-41...
Setting on macos was called "use font smoothing when available".
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Thank you, I bring this up in every Zed thread on the internet, hopefully the devs will eventually fix it. Until they do, Zed is simply unusable on regular-DPI displays, at least in light mode. See these screenshots: Example Zed screenshot, using "Ayu Light": https://i.ibb.co/Nr8SjvR/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-11-10... Same code in VS Code: https://i.ibb.co/YZfPXvZ/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-13-41...
I'm wildly guessing here, but I remember that at some point in time macos had (and maybe has) this feature enabled by default which artificially makes pseudo-bold font out of regular font. That's why some websites have very thin and unreadable fonts, because they were tested only on macos. Maybe it's the same issue here? Looks kinda similar. Setting on macos was called "use font smoothing when available".
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a bit offtopic but whats your workflow for building macos products using a different editor to xcode? i am new to this and xcode seems awful (?)
(not the one you asked, but can chime in with some info) This was a long time ago, but the way I did it was to use XcodeGen (1) and a simple Makefile. I have an example repo here (2) but it was before Swift Package Manager (using Carthage instead). If I remember correctly XcodeGen has support for Swift Package Manager now. On top of that I was coding in VS Code at the time, and just ran `make run` in the terminal pan…
This seems like a really great demo of the agent panel: https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor It's fast paced, yet it doesn't blush over anything I'd find important. It shows clearly how to use it, shows a realistic use case, e.g. the model adding some nonsense, but catching something the author might have missed, etc. I don't think I've seen a better AI demo anywhere. Maybe the bar is really low that I get exc…
When any video starts by asking AI "Make me a todo app" I loose interest right away