Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

Post by unhammer » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 7:38 AM UTC

lgessler wrote: post #127

asah wrote: post #106

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emacs. Totally free and open source since 1976. oh, sorry, you asked for an IDE and not an operating system... /s seriously, budget a day or two for the ergonomics and a week for wrangling plugins, but some of the most productive developers in the world use emacs and they never need to worry about vendor issues, porting issues, not having a GUI, support for some weird file type, ability to create some funky type of m…

I tried to get into emacs a few years ago and just got fed up with the incredible regularity with which packages broke during routine updates. It was at least an hour a week on average, I feel, conducting bug hunts for either minor (this or that keybind/function doesn't work) or major (I can't get any packages to load) bug hunts. Was I doing something wrong? How do emacs people deal with this? Admittedly, I was using…

Post by cultofmetatron » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 7:40 AM UTC

klyrs wrote: post #180

Shish2k wrote: post #154

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“Please don’t do it like a 4x4 truck, do it proper, like a bicycle” — there is some overlap between those things, but for people who are actually making full use of the former, the latter is not a useful suggestion

I'd suggest that the people who make "full use" of vsc-over-ssh are satisfied with vscode, so it would be unwise to target the full featureset. More generally, targeting another project's complete featureset is often a great way to get mired down in the wrong details. Unless you can afford to do a proper cleanroom -- then, you'll be able to at least match the performance and useful abstractions used in the original.

Post by jenadine » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 7:51 AM UTC

ushakov wrote: post #4

Also take a look at their freshly open-sourced Rust UI Framework (GPUI): https://www.gpui.rs

Post by BiteCode_dev » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 7:54 AM UTC

yunwal wrote: post #174

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #83

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Now that it's FOSS, you can fork it.

The polite thing to do if you have a feature you think would make a FOSS project better is to submit a feature request first. If the maintainers decide they won’t support your feature quickly enough or at all, then fork it. GP did the right thing here

Post by lynx23 » Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 8:05 AM UTC

jitl wrote: post #340

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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.