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Fantastic interview where you really get into the mind and mindset of the developers for how they approach development from many different angles. Highly recom

• Terretta 3y ago
  > I only have one disagreement with them. . . > > the perfect name for a text editor in Zig is already taken: Zed > No, it’s “Zag”. ;) Except that `zed` contains `ed`, precursor to `ex`, `vi`, and `edlin` yet still around: `ed` is a line editor for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed, in August 1969. It remains part of the POSIX and Open Group standards for Unix-based operating systems, alongside the more sophisticated full-screen editor `vi`. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) While `ag` (the silver searcher) is fantastic, Zed's more about editing code than searching code: https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/ https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/
  • monkmartinez 3y ago
    Except that "Zag" would be at least 3x awesomer[0] as defined by things that are awesomer. [0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/awesomer https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/awesomer
  • euroderf 3y ago
    ed just had a release and nowhere can I find release notes. This is depressing, considering that ed is the linchpin of the contemporary I.T. environment.
    • svat 3y ago
      Assuming you mean GNU ed (which is the one that has had a recent release): https://fossies.org/linux/ed/ChangeLog https://fossies.org/linux/ed/ChangeLog (seems to be a web version of the file `ed-1.20.1/ChangeLog` within the ed release itself).
  • steinuil 3y ago
    ed is the standard text editor.