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It become open source just last week. Currently don't have Linux version but soon it will have. Linux Roadmap issue

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Road to Linux might be interesting to all linux users

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015

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

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/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A windows build too

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

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the debugger is really nice.

That, and pretty much the whole extension market.

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

How does it compare against Lapse?

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

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.

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

Can you be more specific on these concerning hardcoded features?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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

I'll try it once Linux support kinda works

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

Can confirm that’s it’s very fast. Just lacking plugins at the moment.

I will watch it with great interest

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

Sounds exactly like atom... until they killed atom

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

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

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.

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

Maybe for you. I personally am quite picky about tools I use all day every day.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Vs code is slow? Literally the entire reason I switched to it years ago is because it's very fast.

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

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

VSCode is only fast if you're comparing it to Atom.

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

Yep, VSCode is slow because it is built on Electron which is just a another browser.

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

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

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.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does kate from KDE suffice?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't try it yet. But, isn't it just like Gedit?

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