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I think that is on the roadmap too, but possibly further down.
You know Windows is the most common development platform? If it were me I'd prioritize it
About 80% of the developers at my company do the same. Only a few are happy with just Windows.
So, I would prefer if they prioritize Linux and leave Windows as the last one.
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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.
To each their own, but for a hardcore Emacs user (wrote a number od my own plugins) that actually tried and couldn't seriously adopt VSCode for more than a few months, Helix was such a nice surprise + change of pace. Worth giving it a shot if you're caught in that gap.
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.
I'm generally a big fan of zed and have been using it for 60%ish of my dev time for 6 months or so. A couple of nice things to note: - It really is remarkably responsive,and makes one really notice how UNresponsive everything else is. I have reasonably fast machines, so we're not talking about the difference between 5ms typing lag and 500ms, but it's still pretty surprising. VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I…
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…
I can't parse this sentence -- could you unpack it? Not being a dick, I really want to know what you mean.
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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.
The way the other guy said. Then it breaks enough times, you give up, and switch to Helix. Nothing snappier out there (vanilla Vim included) and it comes with all the goodies you'd install 100 packages for (DAP, LSP, treesitter, sane default configs for dozens of languages) To each their own, but for a hardcore Emacs user (wrote a number od my own plugins) that actually tried and couldn't seriously adopt VSCode for m…
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.
Be the change you want to see in the world (it is open source, after all)
> GPUI rasterizes the entire window on the GPU, just like a 3D video game. So my laptop will be roasting hot constantly?
No, because a game utilizes the GPU 100% most of the time, while the simple GUI of this editor doesn't require as much calculations (fewer triangles, etc.). So your GPU can downclock and stay cool and quiet.