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Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn? (hachyderm.io)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn?

I can believe it’s good and cool ( built in graphics and collab seem to me like good ideas).

But as someone who happily stayed with sublime (with LSPs a likely game changer) …

takes like “it’s fast!”, “LSP!”, “it now has snippets!” … along with people telling me it has a plug-in system, but doesn’t (cf python/lua runtimes of sublime/nvim) give me massive hype vibes and honestly just feels very “2020s-tech”.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried it briefly. I like the idea of an alternative to VS code, that's not some inefficient javascript electron app. But the focus of zed seems to be on collaboration in cloud and also pushing LLM tools. That's not what I'm looking for. I disliked that it was impossible to hide the "log in to github" button (I don't want to log into an editor). Irked me the wrong way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It drives me nuts that there's no way to close a folder once you opened it. There's no way to just edit a file without making it a "project". In my mind that's a weird design decision (which is probably rooted in weird fundamental ideas) and gives me no warm & fuzzy feeling about what direction it will take in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's not too weird, until IntelliJ added its lite editor, it was the same way for many years.