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From what I understand Zed is a text editor that is built like a game engine, which I understand is why the marketing copy uses the term "multiplayer" rather th

From what I understand Zed is a text editor that is built like a game engine, which I understand is why the marketing copy uses the term "multiplayer" rather than "multiuser". I didn't find other mention of its multiplayer capabilities, which is too bad. Has anyone used it for that purpose, I'm curious as to what the experience was like.

mikaylamaki 2y ago
We use them every day at Zed for pair programming, we're rather fond of the features :D
- FridgeSeal 2y ago
  Used it the other day with my teammate to pair on some stuff, and it genuinely felt magic. We went from never having used it, to digging through their code together in about a minute, and have used it a few times since. Really nice UX.
jodrellblank 2y ago
"multiplayer notepad" goes back 15 years at least - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=multiplayer%20notepad&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... it was used back with a popular website which opened a text document and anyone viewing could type, but I can't remember the name. That became a thing in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Floobits, and lots of self-hosted and cloned sites.
- gliptic 2y ago
  IRC was what was initially called multiplayer notepad.
- spudlyo 2y ago
  You may be thinking of Hackpad from 2014, which later was bought by Dropbox and morphed into Dropbox Paper. I guess I was thinking that a multiuser IDE is substantially different than a multiuser text editor. I did notice that Zed is by the same team that brought us tree-sitter, which is a wonderful innovation that many text editors are now using to good effect. I was wondering if were powerful enough for one person to be debugging some code in the same session that another person was refactoring.
  - jodrellblank 2y ago
    Earlier than that; I wanted to say EditPad but that's not it. I found it; EtherPad in 2008 is the one I was thinking of, but the history of collaborative editing apparently goes back to Doug Englebart's Mother of All Demos in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor#History_of_key_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor...
- KTibow 2y ago
  A video I watched a while ago claimed that Talkomatic was the first one

mikaylamaki 2y ago

We use them every day at Zed for pair programming, we're rather fond of the features :D

FridgeSeal 2y ago
Used it the other day with my teammate to pair on some stuff, and it genuinely felt magic. We went from never having used it, to digging through their code together in about a minute, and have used it a few times since. Really nice UX.

jodrellblank 2y ago

"multiplayer notepad" goes back 15 years at least - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=multiplayer%20notepad&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... it was used back with a popular website which opened a text document and anyone viewing could type, but I can't remember the name. That became a thing in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Floobits, and lots of self-hosted and cloned sites.

gliptic 2y ago
IRC was what was initially called multiplayer notepad.
spudlyo 2y ago
You may be thinking of Hackpad from 2014, which later was bought by Dropbox and morphed into Dropbox Paper. I guess I was thinking that a multiuser IDE is substantially different than a multiuser text editor. I did notice that Zed is by the same team that brought us tree-sitter, which is a wonderful innovation that many text editors are now using to good effect. I was wondering if were powerful enough for one person to be debugging some code in the same session that another person was refactoring.
- jodrellblank 2y ago
  Earlier than that; I wanted to say EditPad but that's not it. I found it; EtherPad in 2008 is the one I was thinking of, but the history of collaborative editing apparently goes back to Doug Englebart's Mother of All Demos in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etherpad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor#History_of_key_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor...
KTibow 2y ago
A video I watched a while ago claimed that Talkomatic was the first one