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Does anyone have insight into how Lapce and Zed compare to each other? I.e. what are the differences in project goals, current capabilities and roadmap? Thanks!

ksynwa 3y ago
One thing I know of is that zed'a scope is a bit wider and includes some collaborative tools and enhancements. Don't know the exact details though.
cultofmetatron 3y ago
it seemes closer ti what I actually need than zed. love zed's speed but remote development is mandatory in thus day and age
- SpaghettiCthulu 3y ago
  What makes you say that remote development is mandatory? I think it has less to do with "this day and age" and more to do with your current employment.
  - cultofmetatron 3y ago
    For me and a lot of people it is. But not because of employment. one big use of remote is to remote into docker containers. why docker containers? I can have a different set of dependencies for each project and yet have my different systems communicate with each other over a network. but for me, the big issue is I run phoenix framework and the older version I'm running my project on can't run the tests on the arm version of docker os I had to create a x86 machine on hetzner.
jsheard 3y ago
Lapce being cross-platform is a major difference for now, Zed plans to be eventually but it's currently only on Mac.
nicoburns 3y ago
Now that Zed is open source they're actually quite similar in capability (even sharing a number of underling libraries). The biggest difference is probably that Zed is backed by a commercial company (and I believe they have plans to sell collaborative functionality on top of the core editor) whereas Lapce is more of a community open source project. Lapce is also cross-platform whereas Zed is currently macOS only. But they seem to be making rapid progress on linux support so this may not be relevant soon.
cal85 3y ago
This is my question too. I think I’m going to have to try both. AFAICT so far, Lapce is ‘just’ someone’s open source project that has got popular, while Zed is made by a funded-looking startup with several employees that announced they were switching to open source just a couple of weeks ago. Zed also has Copilot built in. Both look like great editors at a glance. Zed has more easily findable information about their goals - there’s a blog and a roadmap on their site. (I guess with Lapce it might be possible to get a sense of goals/vision by sifting through GitHub issues and comments, which I haven’t done yet.)
bobbyskelton41 3y ago
From a developer perspective, Zed's licensing prevents it from being used/inspected outside of the context of other GPL projects. For example, Helix can't use nor read any of the code in Zed because it would pollute the licensing.

ksynwa 3y ago

One thing I know of is that zed'a scope is a bit wider and includes some collaborative tools and enhancements. Don't know the exact details though.

cultofmetatron 3y ago

it seemes closer ti what I actually need than zed. love zed's speed but remote development is mandatory in thus day and age

SpaghettiCthulu 3y ago
What makes you say that remote development is mandatory? I think it has less to do with "this day and age" and more to do with your current employment.
- cultofmetatron 3y ago
  For me and a lot of people it is. But not because of employment. one big use of remote is to remote into docker containers. why docker containers? I can have a different set of dependencies for each project and yet have my different systems communicate with each other over a network. but for me, the big issue is I run phoenix framework and the older version I'm running my project on can't run the tests on the arm version of docker os I had to create a x86 machine on hetzner.

jsheard 3y ago

Lapce being cross-platform is a major difference for now, Zed plans to be eventually but it's currently only on Mac.

nicoburns 3y ago

Now that Zed is open source they're actually quite similar in capability (even sharing a number of underling libraries). The biggest difference is probably that Zed is backed by a commercial company (and I believe they have plans to sell collaborative functionality on top of the core editor) whereas Lapce is more of a community open source project. Lapce is also cross-platform whereas Zed is currently macOS only. But they seem to be making rapid progress on linux support so this may not be relevant soon.

cal85 3y ago

This is my question too. I think I’m going to have to try both. AFAICT so far, Lapce is ‘just’ someone’s open source project that has got popular, while Zed is made by a funded-looking startup with several employees that announced they were switching to open source just a couple of weeks ago. Zed also has Copilot built in. Both look like great editors at a glance. Zed has more easily findable information about their goals - there’s a blog and a roadmap on their site. (I guess with Lapce it might be possible to get a sense of goals/vision by sifting through GitHub issues and comments, which I haven’t done yet.)

bobbyskelton41 3y ago

From a developer perspective, Zed's licensing prevents it from being used/inspected outside of the context of other GPL projects. For example, Helix can't use nor read any of the code in Zed because it would pollute the licensing.