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Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by Groxx »

spockz wrote: post #407
Groxx wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I really can't stand every vscode has done to the ecosystem for settings. JSON as a storage format for config is entirely fine, but it's a truly awful UX for changing things. But they're successful and it's easy to build, so everyone mindlessly copies them.

Mind you that vscode does have an ui to change the settings. Also it has code completion when editing the json because of the linked json schema.

It has a UI to change some of the settings. And not even all of the settings with autocomplete help - I have no idea why those aren't equivalent to each other at least as a fallback, but they very clearly are not. And plugins frequently have major settings documentation gaps, including absolutely massively used ones like Go.

Compare that to something like a JetBrains product.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by MintPaw »

opengrass wrote: post #424
MintPaw wrote: post #411

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Vulkan, DX11, or Metal, I'm curious which environment has the ability render a GUI desktop but doesn't have access to a modern renderer pipeline. VirtualBox I guess?

AMD https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/50996

This looks to me like the issue is that Zed is using too many buffer objects, it should be querying the Vulkan context to see what's the max and sticking to it. So it seems like Zed's not doing it right, or maybe the AMD driver is failing to report it correctly?

It is a problem though, the GPU apis are pretty terrible. But with such large modern displays it feels important to have a GPU accelerated path. Maybe sticking with OpenGL would be better.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by kstrauser »

throwaway73747 wrote: post #429
kstrauser wrote: post #221

Zed got me off of Emacs for the most part, which is about the highest praise I can offer. I've never used an editor that 1. closely mapped to how I think about code, and 2. is easily extensible enough that it's broadly supported with a gazillion third-party packets, and 3. is lightning fast. Emacs does 1 and 2. VSCode excels at 2. Sublime is good for 2 and 3, and Vim, and BBEdit 2 too. Zed's the only one I've ever tr…

Hopefully Neomacs, “A GPU-powered Emacs written in Rust with a modern display engine … starting with the display engine and expanding to the core“, will succeed. https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs

I know there've been a couple of stabs at this in the past, but I hope beyond hope that one of these catches on now. Given some extra LLM boost for the grunt work, I'm more confident today than before. Crossing my fingers!

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by nathanmills »

halJordan wrote: post #422
meantub wrote: post #378

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Aren't you forgetting the part that says "solely: (a) to perform its obligations set forth in the Terms, including its Support obligations as applicable; (b) to derive and generate Telemetry (see Section 4.4); and (c) as necessary to comply with applicable Laws. Except as required by applicable Laws, Zed will not provide Customer Data to any person or entity other than Customer’s designees (including pursuant to Sect…

This is a bad faith take. The terms are modifiable without the customer's consent or knowledge so "pursuant to these terms" is meaningless. No one needs all those rights to do what this block says it's going to do. Any one would require that block to be changed in any contract between equals. But this is a contract of adhesion, so it's uncharitable for you to demand charity where they withhold their charity

What makes you think it's bad faith?

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by armanj »

i've been a zed user for almost 6 months. i've encountered maaany bugs which i reported, or that were already reported. they're still there. meanwhile, every single update shipped a feature or bugfix for "ai agents".

not sure how 1.0 ships with that massive pile of bugs. but ai agents are the first-class citizen in this editor, and developer experience is not a priority.

funny thing is i uninstalled zed right before the 1.0 release. kinda relieved i didn't miss anything.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by _badmike »

Congrats on the launch. I have been using zed since 2026 exclusively. I moved from JetBrains and am genuinely happy. Missing the compare with clipboard though.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by KPGv2 »

halJordan wrote: post #422
meantub wrote: post #378

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't you forgetting the part that says "solely: (a) to perform its obligations set forth in the Terms, including its Support obligations as applicable; (b) to derive and generate Telemetry (see Section 4.4); and (c) as necessary to comply with applicable Laws. Except as required by applicable Laws, Zed will not provide Customer Data to any person or entity other than Customer’s designees (including pursuant to Sect…

This is a bad faith take. The terms are modifiable without the customer's consent or knowledge so "pursuant to these terms" is meaningless. No one needs all those rights to do what this block says it's going to do. Any one would require that block to be changed in any contract between equals. But this is a contract of adhesion, so it's uncharitable for you to demand charity where they withhold their charity

Can you cite the passage that authorizes Zed to modify the terms without the user's consent? Before I retired, my job was, inter alia, writing software licenses. I was GC for a tech company. I'd like to validate what you're saying, bc I'm the author of a Zed plugin and I wrote a language grammar that another plugin uses.

I don't use Zed, but I occasionally consider switching.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by xpe »

Torlan wrote: post #89

I’ve tried it multiple times, but the performance issues on different Macs are too significant to ignore. I appreciate responsive UI, but I also prioritize sufficient battery life.

Which Macs, hardware, OS's? What's your baseline comparison?

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by realo »

Nice! I might try it, it seems genuinely innovative.

I don't need much from an editor. Instant cold start, sane colors, sane folding in origami style , like "kent folding" allows to do on vim ( https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=416 ).

Not much, but it seems all modern editors fail to do good origami folding.

Does Zed do this?

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