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I don't understand why text editors became so complicated. When I ran zed, I think my gpu wasn't properly used and it ran at 5 fps. I couldn't even get the thin

by mawadev 11mo ago

I don't understand why text editors became so complicated. When I ran zed, I think my gpu wasn't properly used and it ran at 5 fps. I couldn't even get the thing to boot.. Remember when people had 1024x768 and coded perfectly fine software without instant messaging pinging every few minutes? We peaked there

sevensor 11mo ago
What I remember from those days was saving my work reflexively because the chances of the window manager or text editor crashing at any given moment were quite high. Also, emacs came in for lots of grief for being so slow. Remember “Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping?” This is not necessarily to endorse Zed; I’m ecstatically happy with my current text editor. However, “we peaked 25-30 years ago” is just not true. Things have gotten better and they continue to do so.