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This feels like a huge distraction from building an IDE. A monnumentous yak shave. I've never used or cared for multiplayer in VSCode or JetBrains. It's silly
by echelon 1y ago
This feels like a huge distraction from building an IDE.
A monnumentous yak shave.
I've never used or cared for multiplayer in VSCode or JetBrains. It's silly.
I've never been the pair programmer type. The only time I've needed to share an IDE is during a SEV or ridiculously complicated systems bug, and that's 1% of the time.
- agrippanux 1y agoTheir multiple rounds of VC funding are predicated on their vision of collaboration so they gotta make a go at it.
- gherkinnn 1y agoSo you're saying that you're not the target audience, therefore it is silly?
- verdverm 1y agopeople can abstract and reason about issues like... 1. Until this is possible without lock-in to a specific IDE, it's going to be heavily gated by adoption and network effect. 2. What are you going to do about communication with non-devs who don't use any IDE? Do I now have multiple chat tools I need to give attention to? 3. Bringing the attention economy to our primary work tool is probably a bad idea in the long run, given the evidence we have more broadly about the impact of the attention economy 4. They are also proposing a new version control database, which makes adoption and interoperability an even harder task. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-operation-level-version-control https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o... 5. We are in an AI hype cycle, which comes with a lot of experiments and baggage. We're seeing both fandom and rational pushback against this experiment (and others)
- gherkinnn 1y agoThe post I responded to pointed to nothing of the sort. Like many other comments here, it was focused on how the they like to work alone, pairing sucks and this endeavour is a waste.