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Have you tried Zed, and if so, what's your opinion?

by _cenw 2y ago

tipiirai 2y ago
I have, but seems it has evolved quite a bit in the past year when looking at their new front page. I'll probably give it a shot. But in any case, I don't like their focus in collaborative features. It brings unnecessary bloat, that is not present in Sublime.
- andrepd 2y ago
  Fwiw you can disable all AI bloat and online features with a couple of config keys
  - nottorp 2y ago
    But isn't that your "zed"'s selling point? What remains if you turn those off? Does it have gamification too, in addition to "AI" and "social"?
    - 369548684892826 2y ago
      An open source, fast, customizable cross-platform text editor with native UI and support for plugins and language servers. I don't think there's any other software that can tick all these boxes.
      - nottorp 2y ago
        Language servers means "AI" right? The other boxes can be ticked by a lot of editors that were made before the js monopoly.
        _cenw 2y ago
        No, LSPs. Language servers is a pretty well-defined term.
    - andrepd 2y ago
      What an oddly aggressive tone x) It's not "my" Zed's selling point because I don't develop or even use zed daily atm. But it's also not the selling point period, it's one of them, the others being e.g. performance, responsiveness, and low memory footprint, as well as integration with tree sitter and LSP. Not sure what you mean by gamification and social, we're talking about collaborative editing, not posting to twitter lol
    - rglynn 2y ago
      Zed's selling point is performance
shafyy 2y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I have tried Zed and I think it does too much things I don't need (like LLM integration, all that "multiplayer" stuff), and it's funded by VCs, so it will go down the road of enshittification (or sale, or shut down) eventually. I don't want to support VC-backed companies.
jeltz 2y ago
I tried it a few months ago and it was a buggy mess with strange defalts. Totally unusable on a couple of the projects I tried it on.
bigstrat2003 2y ago
I haven't tried Zed. I looked into it, but there was some reason I decided it wasn't for me. I want to say it was that they seemed focused on LLMs, but it's been a while so I forget exactly what it was that I didn't like about it when I researched.

Have you tried Zed, and if so, what's your opinion?

by _cenw 2y ago

Have you tried Zed, and if so, what's your opinion?

I have, but seems it has evolved quite a bit in the past year when looking at their new front page. I'll probably give it a shot. But in any case, I don't like their focus in collaborative features. It brings unnecessary bloat, that is not present in Sublime.

andrepd 2y ago
Fwiw you can disable all AI bloat and online features with a couple of config keys
- nottorp 2y ago
  But isn't that your "zed"'s selling point? What remains if you turn those off? Does it have gamification too, in addition to "AI" and "social"?
  - 369548684892826 2y ago
    An open source, fast, customizable cross-platform text editor with native UI and support for plugins and language servers. I don't think there's any other software that can tick all these boxes.
    - nottorp 2y ago
      Language servers means "AI" right? The other boxes can be ticked by a lot of editors that were made before the js monopoly.
      - _cenw 2y ago
        No, LSPs. Language servers is a pretty well-defined term.
  - andrepd 2y ago
    What an oddly aggressive tone x) It's not "my" Zed's selling point because I don't develop or even use zed daily atm. But it's also not the selling point period, it's one of them, the others being e.g. performance, responsiveness, and low memory footprint, as well as integration with tree sitter and LSP. Not sure what you mean by gamification and social, we're talking about collaborative editing, not posting to twitter lol
  - rglynn 2y ago
    Zed's selling point is performance

shafyy 2y ago

Not the person you're replying to, but I have tried Zed and I think it does too much things I don't need (like LLM integration, all that "multiplayer" stuff), and it's funded by VCs, so it will go down the road of enshittification (or sale, or shut down) eventually. I don't want to support VC-backed companies.

jeltz 2y ago

I tried it a few months ago and it was a buggy mess with strange defalts. Totally unusable on a couple of the projects I tried it on.

bigstrat2003 2y ago

I haven't tried Zed. I looked into it, but there was some reason I decided it wasn't for me. I want to say it was that they seemed focused on LLMs, but it's been a while so I forget exactly what it was that I didn't like about it when I researched.