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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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Their language support story is extremely weak right now (no support for Java, XML, SCSS, etc.). An editor should focus more on editing capabilities (it is editor after all).

Also, no option to disable all the collaboration and AI features leaves a sour taste for me. Hopefully, they'd improve on this later.

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

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And anyway, it's a bad comparison, there is a conspiracy that, say Google or Firefox is collaborating, but it's very clear that yandex is an arm of the Russian government

I might be missing something, but why is it clear to you that Yandex is an arm of the Russian government? Yandex has been critical of the Russian government's war on Ukraine [0] and faced consequences because of it which signals to me that this isn't the case. Yandex made plans to exit Russia because of the company's disagreement with the government even. [1] [0] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-yandex-government-contr…

It can be argued, that Yandex didn't do enough to fight the Putin's regime, but: 1. How realistic is to expect something like this from Corporations? How much have American corporations fought against American terrorism or attacks on freedoms (e.g. of speech)? Exactly. 2. It absolutely does not mean that they were an arm of the government. Among the tech giants, even without the Russia caveats, Yandex was definitely a good guy, with good ethics and core, with people who cared (and who helped a lot in personal capacities).

A very telling sign is a list of Western countries that participate in the Yemen war, but want to keep it a secret from their citizens. Yes, they fully know that what they are doing is wrong. No, they don't want to stop doing the evil, they only want for people not to know.

This is a pattern. Remember illegal CIA prisons all around the world, torturing people?

Democracy often means that bad deeps must be better camouflaged/hidden, not that thr actions and people doing the deciding are inherently better.

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

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You know Windows is the most common development platform? If it were me I'd prioritize it

The Zed team disagrees. Here is what they say in the github discussion on the issue: ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394 ) "We will let you know when windows support is under development. The Zed team isn't taking feedback on when we start on windows support, nor why we didn't start with windows. The amount of people on each platform isn't relevant, as it starts with the base assumption that more peop…

Haha, well they will get lots of feedback they don't want to take.

A company like Jetbrains can do this to an extent due to existing products fueling long term R&D efforts before they bare fruit. Interested to see how this outlook holds up as the runway burns and investor pressure increases from that cool 12.5m they raised last year.

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

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I'm really happy the Atom team is back with another editor and atoning for the sin of creating Electron. I'm glad Zed exists and hope it succeeds. I'm rooting for the team and hope they can put Microsoft's editor down the way Microsoft put Atom down. With that being said-- I won't be using it. I've been using Vim for ~15 years and I've tried every editor and IDE under the sun. I just can't use anything else.

Electron is fine.

Their sin was using coffeescript and having one of the most unresponsive editors.

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

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Just curious what tools are you missing on MacOS or Linux that are found on Windows? I have been on MacOS the last 8 years or so but before that was all Windows and Linux. I prefer MacOS now but curious what I am missing. My colleagues that are using Windows machines all use WSL with dev containers so really just using Linux under the hood. My experience is that pretty much everything is cross platform these days. I…

> so really just using Linux under the hood Yeah, but with Windows GUI along with fractional scaling, device, and etc support haha. I've developed on both bare Linux and for years in Linux VMs. Saying Windows+WSL is "really just linux under the hood" does this setup a massive disservice. It makes me smile every time I type WSL into the terminal lol.

Yeah Linux desktop environments are a bit of a mess but OP specifically called out MacOS as well. Once you add Rectangle it is a solid DE in my opinion. Also it is Unix/linux compatible so kind of the same beast with good GUI/hardware and *nix terminal.

Was just curious what Windows only tools I am missing out on.

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

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Where I can download those fonts from without installing Zed?

did https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases/tag/1.2... not work for you?

Thank you for that link. I just could not find it.

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

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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.

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I don't think there's a way to talk yourself back up onto the horse here. Drive-by barbs like "worse than bad" are a plague on this site. It was a rude complaint about the website for an open source project, and it was called out civilly. Ironically, it's your personalizing response that skirts closest to incivility.

You can just disagree next time (if you really want to) without lecturing people on empathy? I think that strategy might work better.

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

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I don't think there's a way to talk yourself back up onto the horse here. Drive-by barbs like "worse than bad" are a plague on this site. It was a rude complaint about the website for an open source project, and it was called out civilly. Ironically, it's your personalizing response that skirts closest to incivility. You can just disagree next time (if you really want to) without lecturing people on empathy? I think…

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

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> so really just using Linux under the hood Yeah, but with Windows GUI along with fractional scaling, device, and etc support haha. I've developed on both bare Linux and for years in Linux VMs. Saying Windows+WSL is "really just linux under the hood" does this setup a massive disservice. It makes me smile every time I type WSL into the terminal lol.

Yeah Linux desktop environments are a bit of a mess but OP specifically called out MacOS as well. Once you add Rectangle it is a solid DE in my opinion. Also it is Unix/linux compatible so kind of the same beast with good GUI/hardware and *nix terminal. Was just curious what Windows only tools I am missing out on.

Fair. But I will say that OSX is superficially similar to Linux to many people.
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