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This is great. I just hope that they continue to make money. We really need someone to invest in making a Fast, modal editor.
by whinvik 1y ago
This is great. I just hope that they continue to make money. We really need someone to invest in making a Fast, modal editor.
- deadbabe 1y agoWhy? Neovim exists.
- f311a 1y agoI don’t want to install 5-10 plugins with a hundreds of config lines just to make it usable. I prefer zed with 0 extensions and vim motions which are built in.
- t_mahmood 1y agoLazyVim makes it trivial, actually. I would take nvim/vim over VSCode any day.
- f311a 1y agoNot really, it installs even more plugins. Some of them are unnecessary. Ideally, every time you update or install a plugin, it must be reviewed. I just don't wanna deal with it and trust plugin developers. I already got bitten by an infected Python library (that used to be legit). I treat plugins the same since they can be used in supply chain attacks.
- t_mahmood 1y agoYou have to trust VS Code plugins too, along with trusting MS not using your code to improve their AI suggestions, or doing a sudden rug pull. All three happened if I remember correctly. You can easily enable/disable plugins in LazyVim, and they are simple Lua Script/VIM scripts easy to review. I don't think VSCode would be that easy. And even with more plugins, nvim/vim will be much more performant then VSCode.
- f311a 1y agoI don't use VS Code, I'm using Zed with zero plugins or jetbrains IDEs with a vim plugin. When I need to edit something on a server, I'm using Neovim with default config.
- eikenberry 1y agoI switched to Helix for the same reason. Though I'm thinking of re-trying with one of the lighter weight pre-configured versions. Astronvim seems like the best one after a bit of weekend research.
- eikenberry 1y agoZed is not a great modal editor, modality is a strapped on afterthought. At least that the impression the vim keybinding give me. IMO the best chance I see for a fast modal editor that works out of the box is Helix.
- dkersten 1y agoWhen did you last try Zed? If it was recently then that hasn’t quite matched my experience, for me vim keybindings work quite well. But I did think the same when I first used Zed over a year ago.
- rscrawfo 1y agoDoes Helix fit that bill for you? It's fast, modal and very little config required. I think there's also a fork if you can't let go of the VIM bindings.
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- spiderice 1y agoHelix is a non-starter until it has plugins. Which is taking YEARS longer than it should to get implemented. The fuck-off-if-you-don't-agree-with-me dictator of the project doesn't help either.