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zed is actually very fast though
by peoplefromibiza 3y ago
zed is actually very fast though
- v3ss0n 3y agoOnly works on Mac Big no no
- egze 3y agoI actually prefer Mac only apps. It usually means the experience is way more polished.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoUnless you don’t own a Mac.
- ivancho 3y agoEven more so then. Simplify, simplify, simplify!
- littlestymaar 3y agoMac-only apps come with additional security benefits on Windows and Linux too: there's no safer software than the software you cannot run.
- sofixa 3y agoOr even worse, you own a Mac (say, through work), but aren't entirely in the Apple ecosystem and don't want to relearn everything and fight muscle memory every time you switch devices.
- jeffhuys 3y agoRemap the keys.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoMost people who say “all editors have vim keybindings just use that” miss the fact that bindings or not, a lot of vim’s functionality is just not available on other editors.
- alpaca128 3y agoAnd that Vim is more than its keybindings, despite the often repeated jokes. Tabs, window splits, search and countless other details may work very differently, and usually not completely with the keyboard.
- loloquwowndueo 3y agoExactly. If all you needed to move off vim were keybindings, then I submit that you weren’t really using vim at all.
- sofixa 3y agoI have (but or course Apple make it hard to do so you need third party software). But that doesn't help with special mac only software that has it's own style, like Arc or Zed.
- Keyframe 3y agocompared to their non-mac versions?
- kstrauser 3y agoI think they mean compared to cross-platform apps that feel equally weird on every system. There’s some talk in the Mac world about “Mac-assed Mac apps”. I use BBEdit as my main editor because it feels right. The default shortcuts are like every other Mac app. You can use standard Mac tools like AppleScript to automate it. It uses the same fonts, widgets, and menu systems as everything else. It’s made for that environment and it shows in a million ways. VSCode is a marvel of engineering and I love that it exists. It also feels uncanny-valley “off” on my Mac in ways that make my brain itch, so I don’t use it. Same with Obsidian: it’s a brilliant app, but it bugs me. It’s not bad in any way, it’s just not the right choice for me.
- noSyncCloud 3y agoThanks for saving my time. Topic hidden.
- 0x6c6f6c 3y agoCross-platform support is in development. You might miss the announcement that actually matters to you
- timeon 3y agoFor now.
- dist-epoch 3y agoSo? It's a code editor. Have you ever seen a serious programmer which is not on a Mac?
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoOne of the people I admire for their programming skill works on a raspberry pi. I use my work MacBook through ssh because I prefer Sway to MacOS's window manager. We are many and varied.
- jkogara 3y agoTroll often?
- cdelsolar 3y agoLol
- erik_seaberg 3y agoMy favorite corporate laptop and desktop ran Goobuntu. macOS is dissimilar to production hosts in datacenters.
- kvark 3y agoYou can already build and run it in Linux, even type things in and have dialogs! Linux and Windows are coming.
- v3ss0n 3y agoOh that's awesome!!
- smarkov 3y agoThis might be one of those things like monitor refresh rate where you can only really tell the difference if you've experienced the better version for a while, but I haven't ever felt slowed down by the speed of VS Code.
- madeofpalk 3y agoEvery now and then I switch back to Apple's Terminal app, and I'm blown away at how much faster it is at just typing than iTerm it is, and how much nicer that is.
- bbkane 3y agoI switched to iTerm2 a few years ago due to blurry fonts on zoom with Terminal.app . Wonder if that's still a problem? A few months ago I switched to WezTerm and, after some config wrestling, I've been very happy using it (https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/wezterm https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/wezterm).
- snet0 3y agoI do think it's something like that. Things can quickly get to the speed that feels "fast enough" that they don't feel subjectively slow, but can still be sped up by a couple orders of magnitude. If you Ctrl-F something and it takes a few hundred ms, you probably don't feel like it was slow, but in reality the "speed-of-light" for this operation was probably orders of magnitude faster than it happened on your device. Once you experience something close to the theoretical speed, it's really hard to go back to something you thought was perfectly fine before. And you start noticing that everything feels slower than it "should".. I think of something like grep, where if I tried to grep a large hierarchy it'd be really slow and I'd sorta reason to myself "well yeah it's a lot of files in a large tree, of course it'll be slow!". Then I installed ripgrep and suddenly what I thought was a reasonable speed was shown to be unreasonably slow!
- peoplefromibiza 3y agoit is actually faster and snappier to use on a beefy M2 max, on the same hardware zed starts up in half the time. the difference is very noticeable. of course it is much less configurable and doesn't work with a lot of things VS Code can do easily. edit: see this comment for a much better explanation than mine of what I originally meant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409763