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They got a VC investment. But a fork with focus on privacy and local-first only needs lack of those to justify itself. It will have to cut some features that z
by marcosdumay 1y ago
They got a VC investment.
But a fork with focus on privacy and local-first only needs lack of those to justify itself. It will have to cut some features that zed is really proud of, so it's hard to even say this is a rugpull.
- m463 1y agoToday we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. - zed.dev
- yencabulator 1y ago> It will have to cut some features that zed is really proud of What, they're proud of the telemetery? The fork claims to make everything opt-in and to not default to any specific vendor, and only to remove things that cannot be self-hosted. What proprietary features have to be cut that Zed people are really proud of? https://github.com/zedless-editor/zedless?tab=readme-ov-file#planned-changes-from-upstream https://github.com/zedless-editor/zedless?tab=readme-ov-file... As far as I know, the Zed people have open sourced their collab server components (as AGPLv3), at least well enough to self-host. For example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/development/local-collaboration.md https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev... -- AFAIK it's just https://github.com/livekit/livekit https://github.com/livekit/livekit The AI stuff will happily talk to self-hosted models, or OpenAI API lookalikes.