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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 briantakita »

I had the pleasure of working with Nathan Sobo when he joined Pivotal Labs ~2008. He had a burning desire to create a transformative text edior/ide back then. He is bright, not only in an intellectual & talent sense, but also in an energetic sense. He is also compassionate & genuine person. I'm very happy & inspired every time I see his endeavors progress.

Knowing Nathan has been one of the major catalysts for me to improve the art of software craftsmanship. Sometimes you meet amazing people in life & I count Nathan as Amazing in many ways.

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

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Post by AlexAndScripts »

gpm wrote: post #42
AlexAndScripts wrote: post #5

How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.

I've greatly enjoyed pair (and trio) programming with friends using it (vscode's version of this) on side projects. For the most part I'm not sold that pair programming is an efficient way to program, but it's a nice social way to program. If you're going to do it, especially remotely, it's really nice to have your editor support it instead of just using screen sharing.

I've never really pair programmed - I've worked on joint projects, of course, but collaboration occurs over discord/github. I'm intrigued - what does this actually consist of? Does one person write one function and another write the next while you chat about what needs to be done?

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

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Post by zzyzxd »

AlexAndScripts wrote: post #5

How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.

When a person tells another person "you need to do X" or "I did Y and it didn't work on my machine", they sometimes ignore important details due to their own curse of knowledge. That's when I need a shared terminal/editor so that both parties know exactly what is happening.

I don't frequently share terminal/editor but occasionally need to do so, maybe a handful times a year. Most of times when I tell a new colleague "hey, connect to my tmux socket by running this command / opening this link", they were amazed and thought it was magical. I am not a Zed user but it's always welcome to see people making effort to make pair programming easier for everyone.

Now, I don't know how I would feel if one day my colleague send me a sharing session link that can only be opened by a particular editor.

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

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Post by toastercat »

glennpratt wrote: post #41
ethanwillis wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zed developers, please don't. I don't want my core editor potentially sending out my code to who knows where or wasting cycles analyzing it. If people want this just let it be a plugin.

> Zed supports GitHub Copilot out of the box, and you can use GPT-4 generate or refactor code by pressing ctrl-enter and typing a natural language prompt. https://zed.dev/ Seems like that ship has sailed. Maybe it's a plugin already or could be in the future, but that's not on GP's suggestion.

I'm already picturing a "Zedium" fork for the FOSS/Privacy enthusiasts.

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

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Post by frankjr »

AlexAndScripts wrote: post #5

How many people find real time sharing helpful? I've never found it to be beneficial. I'm curious.

It sounds nice in theory but I've noticed I cannot focus when somebody else is looking over my shoulder. It could be useful as a way to occasionally show somebody around the code base though.
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