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I wish developers would break out of the silicon valley bubble and realize that the majority of their potential userbase – including technical users – are on Wi
by paxys 3y ago
I wish developers would break out of the silicon valley bubble and realize that the majority of their potential userbase – including technical users – are on Windows and Linux. Heck that's the entire reason Atom (and them VS Code) got popular. No one cares about the nanoseconds of performance you are able to optimize. Working across all my devices and development environments (including the web) is table stakes for all software today.
- projektfu 3y agoThey do care about latency, and I credit these developers for having a goal to minimize it. VS Code isn't bad but when regular Visual Studio changed its design like 10 years ago, latency and lag went through the roof. However, the tech stack itself isn't the solution to latency. Doing an unbounded operation before responding to input will cause it, so will overusing memory and/or cache.
- smoldesu 3y agoYou're right, and it's weird to hear them dunk on Atom when it had so many de-facto features Zed still lacks. They're very proud of their technical stack and their performance, but it feels more like they're defending the cathedral to discredit the bazaar. It's their call, but I feel like I've seen this story play out the same way you describe hundreds of times. I'll never forget when the warp.dev people came to HN looking for feedback and got torn to tatters by the community. A single-platform POC editor is cool, but not really a functional replacement (or even comparison) to what Atom did and the community it garnered. I'm glad they're making what they want, but they're absolutely trapped in bubble-vision afaict.