A bit of gratuitous self promotion but just to let people know if you liked Atom and are still using it or maybe you migrated to a new editor and still miss Atom, it was forked as Pulsar which is entirely community-led and is seeing a lot of active development to bring it up to date. We also have a lemmy community at [email protected]
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I could do that only if a "voice" assistance is able to detect my inner voice through a cap or similar, I fear.. I just can’t write as fast as thinking…
Road to Linux might be interesting to all linux users
Another one people might be interested in is Lapce. Seems to be the same thing as Zed, but has a Linux build available. https://lapce.dev/
A windows build too
I have it installed on my work laptop and give it a try every few updates. I really like it. The vim emulation is pretty fleshed out and it definitely feels a lot faster than VScode.
I believe it's kind of out of scope of the project at the moment, but I'd really love to see debugger support. It's the only thing keeping me on VS code
Yeah, the debugger is really nice.
That, and pretty much the whole extension market.
How does it compare against Lapse?
Lapse is going the extensions-for-features route, cross platform from the start, is more buggy atm, slower progress (doesn't have 3 dedicated experienced devs) but is more accepting of community support.
Zed, similar goals and rust backend, probably has some monetization goals (eventual offering of live sharing code service), and Zed isn't afraid to hardcode features. Like... very hard hardcoded features, to the point that I'm kinda concerned about it. This 5min clip of Theo looking over the source code shows it pretty well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOYp6-k9HhE&t=1533
The Atom/Zed devs write the most well-documented code I've ever read. Clear variable names, perfect comment-explainations when needed, etc. I wish they would join up with Lapse.
Maybe it will be more stable and have more features than Lapce. I think so because I tried Lapce yesterday, and it was so buggy on my machine. But no doubt Lapce is a solid alternative to VSCodium and it has all the features that I want but it lacks customization and is buggy for me. I am still not sure for Zed though because I didn't tried it yet and waiting for Linux support.
I'll try it once Linux support kinda works
Don't understand why they made it mac only, I don't think mac users are even aware of other apps than what Apple tells them.. :)
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Can confirm that’s it’s very fast. Just lacking plugins at the moment.
I will watch it with great interest
Sounds exactly like atom... until they killed atom
Atom was never fast
Exactly.
Atom being open source was why I switched to it from Sublime.
Atom's shitty performance was why I switched away to VS Code.
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I hope it gets there. I was a sublime user until vs code's integrations got so far ahead that the productivity gains outweighed the slowness, but I really want it to be faster.
Do zed plugins have to be written in rust? If they do then that will slow community contributions since it's not as popular as JavaScript for vs code.
VSCode is fine
Maybe for you. I personally am quite picky about tools I use all day every day.
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Vs code is slow? Literally the entire reason I switched to it years ago is because it's very fast.
extensions tend to be the slow part in my experience. after a couple heavy extensions on an already struggling work laptop I'll frequently outpace it's input handling and have to wait for it to catch up
They certainly can be. Admittedly over time I've installed a lot of extensions but also gotten better hardware along the way. All I know is that despite having like 20 extensions installed I can startup vs code in just 3-5 seconds
VSCode is only fast if you're comparing it to Atom.
Yep, VSCode is slow because it is built on Electron which is just a another browser.
Aware. V8 is fast.
V8 is heavy
And yet vs code is barely slower than editors with practically no features. Silly thing to argue about, but it's certainly very fast considering the featureset
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I'd love to have a vscodium alternative written in a faster and more efficient language. Most editors and IDEs don't quite fit my workflow, while vscodium does.
Yep, I also want a good alternative to codium which run fastly on Potato. That's why I am trying different Editor now days like Lite-Xl and other more.
Does kate from KDE suffice?