Zed is now open source
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from mac@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 27 Jan 2024 21:45
https://programming.dev/post/9205090
from mac@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 27 Jan 2024 21:45
https://programming.dev/post/9205090
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But I thought Zed was dead, honey…
How in the world can you support iOS release, but not Linux? For a TEXT editor with very little graphical layer.
It’s not like there is a shortage of text editors on Linux. This is fine.
It’s not like there’s a shortage of text editors on MacOS either though
Firstly, you mean macOS. Secondly, the graphical APIs are completely different, and even then macOS uses BSD userland.
I don’t know a great deal about this software, or if this has changed recently, but it does look as though Linux support is on their roadmap for 2024
E: I misread, I don’t think Linux is on the table for 2024. It seems to be on their long term roadmap at least.
From their FAQ:
Linux support is listed on their roadmap.
Sooo… are you down for blueberry pancakes?
Ok, but whose chopper is this?
Cue surf rock guitar solo
I saw this the other day and downloaded it on my work machine. Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to try it at home with my existing data. Very cool conceptually. We’ll see if it can unseat Sublime Text as my primary editor.
Ed: for some reason, it only opens to a solid pink, full-screen window on my home machine. Unable to open a text file. Too bad. Maybe in the future.
Anyone used this? At work we got IntelliJ IDEA so eh, we just use the group coding feature of that, is this one cool for other languages like
jsor so?I was wondering what could happened with Atom. Nice to see it died to reincarnate into a powerful IDE.
That note was very interesting to me, because there's also Pulsar which is what I have been trying out, which also relates to Atom. I'm not sure if "fork" is the right word as I don't know the complete history, but installing packages uses atom packages / github sources so it's fairly similar. I wonder what led to this other one
Pulsar seems more like an Atom continuation made by community. Which is really cool.
I thought it was killed for VSCode since they ended up under the same umbrella.
Because it was.
No Java/Kotlin yet? And its biggest selling point seems to be the AI integration? Well that’s a hard pass then for my company and work environment.
Unless this is a drop-in replacement for vim, I don’t wanna hear about it!
How can you tell if someone uses vim? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you about it.
I use emacs
Real programmers use butterflies.
Well… you asked for one: helix-editor.com
So far it’s nice, but I still prefer my vim+mods
And both are written in rust
I’m all in on helix, it has replaced emacs and vim for me quite handily.
British people:
Like they would open source Zed instead of locking it up in a museum and claiming their version is the best.
zed has always been open source. Seems that you are just trying to squat its name, am I right?
120 stars… not exactly a common household name. Meanwhile zed the editor has 12k stars, gaining or losing 120 wouldn’t even register. Your comment is delusional
It is common that libraries have fewer stars than end user apps. Especially if they never spammed in communities.
The reasons why almost nobody has heard of them don’t matter, the point is that nobody has heard of them - meaning they have no fame to steal or popularity to piggy back off of
The only good thing to come from this new editor so far is the frank statement by the original Atom Developers (who invented Electron, just to run Atom) admitted that Electron is not a good solution for a code editor, because who in the heck wants to edit their code in a web browser anyway.
Now we just need to convince the devs of Keybase and Obsidian the same.
Well, looking at how popular VSCode is, looks like people don’t mind the web browser thing
You can make solutions popular with a shit ton of money. Doesn’t necessarily make them good solutions.
What VSCode uses is a super cut down and highly optimised version of electron, designed specifically to run a code editor. It’s still not as good as real native code, but a lot of people are willing to put up with it because the plugins available for VSCode are pretty good.
People put up with it because, really, most people don’t care if the technology is a little wacky as long as the features are good.
For me, it is more “better than the competition.” PlattormIO for example is extremely jank and I run into an out of date library that prevents it from compiling. Of course there is no error saying anything remotely related to that, so it’s at least one, 30 minute google searching session per project to correct libraries using old, broken dependencies.
Not to mention that the build and upload buttons on the command bar literally don’t work at all. In windows I have to use the built in terminal to build or upload and in linux at least the build and upload buttons in the PIO sidebar work.
But the problem is that it is STILL easier, faster, and has more features than the competition. In my (only embedded devices) experience, it is still faster than pieces of shit like STM32CubeIDE, MPLabX, and Eclipse as far as speed and user-friendliness. Doesn’t help that STM ships a bunch of broken HAL libraries for chips outside of their main moneymakers.
Keybase is pretty much abandoned after Zoom acquired them.
Hmm, I somehow missed that update. Thanks for making me aware.
Looks really awesome, going to try it out when there’s a Linux version. VSCode is great, but could use some more performant competition.
I’m listening…