I agree with the overall spirit, but this is a bit shallow, no? Not much of an attempt to argue its points. It makes some claims, refuses to elaborate, then leaves. Feels written for people who already think the same.
Because of this as well as poor financial management, Cohost will pass out of internet culture with little impact
Would decentralization have helped it make a much greater impact? Would it have helped Cohost survive? Seems to me that financial issues would've killed it regardless.
Your content stays behind, though, and some shut down without warning.
Your posts will not be moved, due to technical limitations.
Wait, when have I ever denied any genocide?
I'm sorry, that's hilarious. It's so odd, so absurd I can't help but laugh.
I've disagreements of my own, but all I want is to put them aside for a bit because this sentence deserves appreciation.
We also need more straightforward installation procedures so more people can host their own.
Hosting your own instance is not a fire and forget operation. The closest thing is single-user instances, but even then there are matters the admin must handle. Plus, there's little incentive for doing all this work.
Awesome stuff. Maybe there's still hope for a non WebKit, Blink, or Gecko browser in the Servo project after all.
Problem is, programmers don't want AI.
I wish it was that simple! This is, understandably, the most unpopular post in the community. But I looked around in other websites and saw plenty of programmers quite into LLM tooling. In Zed's repository, you can easily find many users looking forward to more AI features, and even outright requesting them.
Programmers are too diverse a group to generalize like this.
Aight, I've spent my allotted 20 minutes reading open source project drama and still don't get this comment. Mind sharing some context?
Fair point, thanks for sharing. Does that mean you consider fine the use of Zulip by open source development teams? Seeing as their main objective is providing organized chat between core contributors (with some level of outsider participation), that is, generally focused on facilitating the work of the project instead of building a community.
I only recently started learning rust, years after leaving vsc, so there's not much I can offer here. What I can comment on, in case you weren't already aware, is the fact that Zed is built almost entirely in rust and its developers have publicly said they're using it daily on the job.
Zed probably lacks some feature(s) you'd get with the vscode extension because even though it supports rust out of the box, there's lots of general functionality missing. That said, things will continue to improve, so I wouldn't be surprised if Zed eventually surpasses VS in rust development, simply because Zed has a lot more incentive to improve the development experience for it.
It's been pretty pleasant for me, though, I can tell you that much.
I spend most of my time thinking, not writing code. I really don't care all that much about time saving, but I do concede that not taking my fingers off the home row feels really great. Other editors, even this very text input I'm writing my comment in right now, feel clunky in comparison.
The most important part to me, however, is how customizable it is. I'm not just using (neo)vim, I'm making and using my own personal development environment. Almost every aspect, be it visual, keybinding, system integration or behavior, is changed as I go to suit my needs above all else. I think the only way to go even further with this would be switching to Emacs :^) lisp machines are no joke.
It's not necessarily mechanically faster—though it absolutely can be: sometimes I get my editor state to where I wanted so naturally and so quickly that I actually pause for a moment after to ponder, wait, how the hell did I do that?—but darn do I like spending time in it, and it just keeps getting better. In a way, that actually makes me more productive: I'm a happier dev.
In the end, it's all about you. If you are at your best in vscode or sublime or whatever, keep at it. My only suggestion is: if you're willing to put in the time and effort, consider trying to make whatever you use truly yours.
If you're willing, I'd appreciate more information on this claim:
Don’t waste your time with Zulip, it is just another corporate messenger.
I tried looking it up myself, but I didn't see anything that bad. Open source, self-hostable, Apache 2 licensed, didn't see any CLA. About the Element thing, that sounds a bit far-fetched, but I'll refrain from saying anything else since I haven't had time to look into it. The Freenode story sounds interesting though, I'll try looking it up later.
What you're describing sounds closer to how atproto is supposed to work, but it's yet unproven in regards to decentralization.