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Zed editor: Linux when? (zed.dev)

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In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is Zed a text editor?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some random one that appeared out of nowhere for mac only, seems the be from some company and because of that people are hyping the shit out of it.

Many places that never mentioned the other more known and editors like helix now suddenly are mentioning this one. It smells as a huge ad/marketing campaign. Not sure what the plans are for monetisation and the business plan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a lot more than a random text editor.

It's a text editor from (at least some of) the people that made Atom at GitHub (with the explicit premise of learning from Atom/building a faster, better, Atom).

The business plan is to sell collaboration features (e.g., remote pair programming).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It is a lifestyle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So, it's trying to replace Emacs?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Emacs is more of a religion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Zed has an email client and window manager built-in.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

... yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

A vibe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You are thinking of Xed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Thank goodness these things aren't confusingly named.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, a code-oriented one meant to be very fast and responsive. It's pre-alpha on Linux but compiles without any fuss for me. I haven't spent much time with it, but the only bug I've seen so far is an uncommanded theme change when switching between files.