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Does anyone know the current status of https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/, the editor by former Atom devs?

sphars 4y ago
The founder is in this thread, stating they just started an alpha release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669615
geodel 4y ago
Editors are like browsers, huge amount of upfront work to even get parity with decades old editor and no commercial potential to sell product. Charge a little bit of money and a million of well paid IT workers suddenly become so poor to pay for tools they need for work. They would further spend productive time haranguing maintainers on why editor need to be open source (code word for just free as in beer) or how 60-70 dollars / year is too much for a code editor and so on. So end result is only editors exist are feature complete long time back/ or maintained by companies who could just give it for free, compensating it with cloud revenues. Besides a couple of paid editors with insignificant market share of course.
- aniforprez 4y ago
  I wish there was an editor I feel comfortable paying for Idea stuff is just way too bulky for me. I don't like using any of them, sacrilegious as that may be, and don't feel the need to use them for since I don't use java. Paying for Sublime is just not worth it with its far poorer plugins and API and their release cadence is atrocious. I checked Nova from Panic out and it looks promising but it's VERY far from being a replacement for my current setup So I see almost no reason to switch from vim and VSCode, both of which are free and have extensive plugin support and are great at what they do. If something comes along that is faster, has good language support and good list of extensions, I would have no trouble paying for it
iamnbutler 4y ago
We just started a private alpha this week! Lots of news and more public facing information coming soon.

The founder is in this thread, stating they just started an alpha release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669615

geodel 4y ago

Editors are like browsers, huge amount of upfront work to even get parity with decades old editor and no commercial potential to sell product. Charge a little bit of money and a million of well paid IT workers suddenly become so poor to pay for tools they need for work. They would further spend productive time haranguing maintainers on why editor need to be open source (code word for just free as in beer) or how 60-70 dollars / year is too much for a code editor and so on. So end result is only editors exist are feature complete long time back/ or maintained by companies who could just give it for free, compensating it with cloud revenues. Besides a couple of paid editors with insignificant market share of course.

aniforprez 4y ago
I wish there was an editor I feel comfortable paying for Idea stuff is just way too bulky for me. I don't like using any of them, sacrilegious as that may be, and don't feel the need to use them for since I don't use java. Paying for Sublime is just not worth it with its far poorer plugins and API and their release cadence is atrocious. I checked Nova from Panic out and it looks promising but it's VERY far from being a replacement for my current setup So I see almost no reason to switch from vim and VSCode, both of which are free and have extensive plugin support and are great at what they do. If something comes along that is faster, has good language support and good list of extensions, I would have no trouble paying for it

iamnbutler 4y ago

We just started a private alpha this week! Lots of news and more public facing information coming soon.