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Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn?

I can believe it’s good and cool ( built in graphics and collab seem to me like good ideas).

But as someone who happily stayed with sublime (with LSPs a likely game changer) …

takes like “it’s fast!”, “LSP!”, “it now has snippets!” … along with people telling me it has a plug-in system, but doesn’t (cf python/lua runtimes of sublime/nvim) give me massive hype vibes and honestly just feels very “2020s-tech”.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm a fellow Sublime user and recently got excited about trying Zed. it's a good editor and fairly similar to Sublime, but lacked some language support and the plugins are still very few compared to other mature editors. also, it's not quite as configurable as Sublime, for example choosing the LSP or linters. but it's still in early development with frequent updates so I keep it installed and watch the releases

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@eldereko

> he plugins are still very few compared to other mature editors. also, it’s not quite as configurable as Sublime

AFAIU, it doesn't have a plugin runtime, which is fairly glaring to me (but maybe not for devs these days).

This is what triggered my "is it hype" thought, as I've seen people say it does but it's in rust or something.

And I feel like many fail to realise how hard it is to build a new editor with everything we take for granted these days.

Fediverse & typst similarly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

it does have plugins, or "extensions" rather, and yes they are written in rust and compiled to webassembly. but currently there are still very few of them. although it's a growing list