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I think you do not understand the value proposition of Zed. It is an editor made for people who are used to double-clicking individual files rather than openin
by rvnx 1y ago
I think you do not understand the value proposition of Zed.
It is an editor made for people who are used to double-clicking individual files rather than opening a folder in VS Code, so they close and open their editor dozens or even hundreds of times per day.
Let's say VS Code takes 5 seconds to boot.
Some programmers may argue: "yes, I spend 3 hours on a project or just leave it open overnight, so 5 seconds per week is nothing"
But here is not the case, it is for programmers who come from Notepad/Sublime/Notepad++/emacs/vi, and who opens a single file and closes the editor right after.
If you work 2 hours, maybe 4 files per minute, this means 120 * 4 openings = 480 openings.
It means you would have wasted 2400 seconds (40 minutes per day!) waiting for VS Code to open (about 33% of the 2-hour work session spent waiting)
Yes, like with Notepad or Zed, you lose some features like Colors or Syntax checking, but still, time is the most precious thing in life.
For users who come from very advanced but slow text editors like Microsoft Word (used in coding exams: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76102874/single-and-double-quotes-from-word-document-to-vs-code https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76102874/single-and-doub... or programming courses: https://youtu.be/0TVugOJtAiU?t=162 https://youtu.be/0TVugOJtAiU?t=162 ), this is truly revolutionary and life-changing.
- veber-alex 1y agoYou are right. I don't understand. How can any software developer work when they need to open and close 4 files per minute? I have never met or heard of anyone working like this.
- typpilol 1y agoRight lol. It's so ridiculous
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- bergheim 1y agoThis has to be a joke. No one ever closes emacs.