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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So they're doing the equivalent of VSCode(ium)'s extensions, but installing them automatically and not giving you the option to use alternatives?

Blegh.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

Why are copilot and some other functions not extensions?

tl;dr: General purpose extensions are not even implemented yet

zed is very much an early stages editor; it'll look very different a year from now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think they auto install some binaries like nodejs that are required for baseline functionality, but have a popup window for additional language LSPs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what if I wanted to use deno or bun? I don't think that should be their decision to install "default" stuff that have alternatives

I'm all for their improvement tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't see your point? Nodejs is installed in a custom directory and not added to PATH. It is used by Zed for providing npm support for extensions, and other things. I'm not a Zed developer so I don't know exactly.

It doesn't prevent you from using deno or bun in any way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I see, that's greatif it is only locally installed and used, messing with PATH could, probably, break stuff like nvm or others