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> Migrate off vscode already. Zed is the closest thing I've found to meet my needs, and I do plan to try it. However it's dev container support looks to be lac

> Migrate off vscode already. Zed is the closest thing I've found to meet my needs, and I do plan to try it. However it's dev container support looks to be lacking in some important ways so we'll see.

TiredOfLife 5mo ago
Zed is even worse about arbitrarily downloading random stuff from random websites and executing it
- notnullorvoid 5mo ago
  How so? Part of what seemed good about Zed was that extensions have explicit permission controls.
  - TiredOfLife 5mo ago
    2 years ago and still nothing has changed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902826
    - no-name-here 5mo ago
      That's a link to a hacker news post, which links to a reddit post, which links to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 if anyone wants to go right to the 'open' issue.
  - sevenseacat 5mo ago
    It will auto-install and configure any LSPs that it thinks is suitable for the code you're working on. Found that out the hard way when a new experimental Elixir LSP got added which conflicted badly with my existing installed one
-iad 5mo ago
Let me save you some hassle. I test drove Zed for a week after the v1.0 release. My projects deal exclusively in dev containers. I spent more time troubleshooting issues than actually working. Things which VS Code handles transparently, like installing the support libraries to run a chrome debug session, say. Your local SSH agent isn’t forwarded into the container, so git push doesn’t work natively. That’s after you’ve had to add your project as a safe directory in your container’s git config, because it isn’t mapped to your local git config. Things which I was disappointed and surprised were not addressed prior to v1.
- notnullorvoid 5mo ago
  Thanks, after seeing this and others talk about it silently installing node and other tools that's enough for me to dismiss it as a viable option.

TiredOfLife 5mo ago

Zed is even worse about arbitrarily downloading random stuff from random websites and executing it

notnullorvoid 5mo ago
How so? Part of what seemed good about Zed was that extensions have explicit permission controls.
- TiredOfLife 5mo ago
  2 years ago and still nothing has changed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40902826
  - no-name-here 5mo ago
    That's a link to a hacker news post, which links to a reddit post, which links to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 if anyone wants to go right to the 'open' issue.
- sevenseacat 5mo ago
  It will auto-install and configure any LSPs that it thinks is suitable for the code you're working on. Found that out the hard way when a new experimental Elixir LSP got added which conflicted badly with my existing installed one

-iad 5mo ago

Let me save you some hassle. I test drove Zed for a week after the v1.0 release. My projects deal exclusively in dev containers. I spent more time troubleshooting issues than actually working. Things which VS Code handles transparently, like installing the support libraries to run a chrome debug session, say. Your local SSH agent isn’t forwarded into the container, so git push doesn’t work natively. That’s after you’ve had to add your project as a safe directory in your container’s git config, because it isn’t mapped to your local git config. Things which I was disappointed and surprised were not addressed prior to v1.

notnullorvoid 5mo ago
Thanks, after seeing this and others talk about it silently installing node and other tools that's enough for me to dismiss it as a viable option.