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We plan to monetize collaboration. Zed is a collaborative platform disguised as a world-class code editor.

docmechanic 4y ago
I'm always excited to see new ways to monetize open source. Hope this is another open source success story.
dymk 4y ago
How often do developers want to edit the same file, at the same time, and have those updates occur in real-time? I see this as a compelling feature for something targeting the use cases of, say Google Docs, where multiple people are contributing to an outline document or a business plan at the same time - but for code, I don't quite see the appeal.
- BaseballPhysics 4y ago
  > How often do developers want to edit the same file, at the same time, and have those updates occur in real-time? That's a very specific example of collaboration. Remote work is exploding. What about, say, integrated, collaborative debugging or code review? Integrations with things like Slack?
  - ctvo 4y ago
    I'm sure the folks at Zed know what they're doing, but this is already possible in multiple editors / IDEs. I'm excited to see how Zed innovates in this space. Examples: - VSCode Live Share https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share - JetBrains IDEs Code With Me https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me - Standalone https://www.coscreen.co https://www.coscreen.co https://duckly.com https://duckly.com
    - woojoo666 4y ago
      Another one mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://lapce.dev https://lapce.dev
    - wsc981 4y ago
      There's also SubEthaEdit for macOS: https://subethaedit.net https://subethaedit.net
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  Do you never pair?
  - dymk 4y ago
    I do, and one person has control over the keyboard at a time. Hell on earth is two people making write operations at the same code buffer.
    - chrisseaton 4y ago
      I don’t see why? Doing some refactoring you’ve decided to do and you can both go through the file at the same time refactoring different methods or whatever. What’s the issue?
      - iamnbutler 4y ago
        We do this frequently :) It's awesome to get through tedious tasks twice as fast
- nsonha 4y ago
  I do this all the time. I use a tool that has 2 modes: turn-based and multicursor, the turn-based mode is signnificantly more annoying. Most of the time you just use it to highlight but it's also good to be able to help the other person with typos and comments, while they are focusing on the logic.

I'm always excited to see new ways to monetize open source. Hope this is another open source success story.

dymk 4y ago

How often do developers want to edit the same file, at the same time, and have those updates occur in real-time? I see this as a compelling feature for something targeting the use cases of, say Google Docs, where multiple people are contributing to an outline document or a business plan at the same time - but for code, I don't quite see the appeal.

BaseballPhysics 4y ago
> How often do developers want to edit the same file, at the same time, and have those updates occur in real-time? That's a very specific example of collaboration. Remote work is exploding. What about, say, integrated, collaborative debugging or code review? Integrations with things like Slack?
- ctvo 4y ago
  I'm sure the folks at Zed know what they're doing, but this is already possible in multiple editors / IDEs. I'm excited to see how Zed innovates in this space. Examples: - VSCode Live Share https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share - JetBrains IDEs Code With Me https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me https://www.jetbrains.com/code-with-me - Standalone https://www.coscreen.co https://www.coscreen.co https://duckly.com https://duckly.com
  - woojoo666 4y ago
    Another one mentioned elsewhere in the thread: https://lapce.dev https://lapce.dev
  - wsc981 4y ago
    There's also SubEthaEdit for macOS: https://subethaedit.net https://subethaedit.net
chrisseaton 4y ago
Do you never pair?
- dymk 4y ago
  I do, and one person has control over the keyboard at a time. Hell on earth is two people making write operations at the same code buffer.
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    I don’t see why? Doing some refactoring you’ve decided to do and you can both go through the file at the same time refactoring different methods or whatever. What’s the issue?
    - iamnbutler 4y ago
      We do this frequently :) It's awesome to get through tedious tasks twice as fast
nsonha 4y ago
I do this all the time. I use a tool that has 2 modes: turn-based and multicursor, the turn-based mode is signnificantly more annoying. Most of the time you just use it to highlight but it's also good to be able to help the other person with typos and comments, while they are focusing on the logic.