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Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!
Is there any way to make it compatible with macOS 10.14? Your minimum macOS requirement is literally just one release away from what I have!
Consider discarding the CLA if you anticipate third-party contributions. If you need to verify provenance, the Developer Certificate of Origin is a better approach. Otherwise, this (correctly) reads as a project which intends to take advantage of FOSS contributors for a while before pulling the rug and making it non-free again.
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Hey! Engineer at Zed here. Linux port is on our roadmap. Hopefully we'll get it done this year!
How are you planning to tackle the GPU API differences?
These days that's a lot less of a concern than it used to be. It is a lot of up-front work to facade e.g. Metal, Vulkan (and even D3D12) but it's much much much easier than back in OpenGL vs D3D9/10 days.
Most of the general concepts are more or less the same across them all these days. The "shapes" of the APIs are very similar.
A texture is a texture is a texture. Same for a vertex/index/uniform buffer, vertex/fragment/compute shaders (notably not geometry, but you can just use compute), etc.
It disappeared, though, because the author (Phil Murray) disappeared and we didn't have a license to continue with it when Zortech was bought by Symantec.
It's too bad, it was a nice editor. I never was able to find out what happened to Phil. He was an excellent programmer, and an all around pleasure to work with.
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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?
Lines of code per second it's closer to one person than the 2 or 3 people involved, but the quality of those lines definitely improves a bit as people spot each-others mistakes/less than optimal choices. (Edit: But I'd emphasize we're doing this for fun, not to maximize productivity)
To any of the project members here: viewing the zed.dev home page using Safari on an iPhone shows text being cut off. I can’t seem to scroll to the right either to view the remaining content.
Jetbrain are the main player and their products are paid. I am finding a jetbrain alternative that is free
Consider discarding the CLA if you anticipate third-party contributions. If you need to verify provenance, the Developer Certificate of Origin is a better approach. Otherwise, this (correctly) reads as a project which intends to take advantage of FOSS contributors for a while before pulling the rug and making it non-free again.
Also the "CLA" link just points to https://zed.dev/cla , which asks me to authorize Zed Industries to access my private GitHub profile. So at this point I don't even know what the CLA says. That's important because not all CLAs are created equal. I think some don't fully remove the contributors' ownership, which would prevent the hypothetical future closed-sourcing.
Interesting choice on licenses.
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I’m been super happy with Zed, my main requests (and I’ve sent in this feedback to them or contributed to existing GitHub Issues)
a. Window Size & Position doesn’t persist after closing Zed.
b. I constantly run into Language Server errors
c. Alabaster use to work as a theme, doesn’t anymore. Would be great if you could import VSCode themes into Zed
All above has tickets open.
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Hope these small things get addressed because I truly love the elegant UI design of Zed
For those who haven't used Zed, it's the first GUI editor I've used in 25-years of development that wasn't distracting.
It's hard to describe how much more focused I am when not distracted with a Christmas tree scene of icons, menus, colors, etc. like you see in other editors.
Zed is very calming, due to its focus on not having distractions. Give it a try if you haven't.