Linux

Not until after you convince these projects to stop using discord

https://zed.dev/docs/linux#installing-via-a-package-manager

I mean its already in the nix repos as well as homebrew which means its essentially taken care of

A curl piped into a shell or some unofficial packages from various distros.

At this point I don't get why these projects are not Flatpak-first.

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.

Zed (a high-performance code editor announced in 2022), not to be confused with Xed (a small and lightweight text editor released in 2016)

EDIT: or Yed (a small and simple terminal editor core)

My bad, it's up now

They are addressing this here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14034

What in hell is remote development? You mean openssh and vim, right?

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from the makers of Atom. It is written in rust.

Probably because it's more efficient. GPUs are designed to render things, which editors do. In a text editor, you're effectively rendering fonts over a fixed background, which I assume is pretty efficient using the GPU.

We're not talking about crazy 3D effects here.

Yay to battery savings!

Same reason you need it for your terminal (see kitty terminal). It's surprisingly slow to cpu render text, gpu rendering is more power efficient and far more responsive

Sppeeed

I mean, it should be clear. Smooth and fast and snappy. If you don't want that, use neovim like me :)

VScode is proprietary and slow. If you are using something like that you should use VScodium

It supports LSPs, and has treesitter syntax highlighting and git integration which honestly makes it 90% of the way there already

Very first impressions since I literally just downloaded before writing this, and haven't read the manual, I may change my mind with more experience.

• It's incredibly snappy, to my eyes as fast as Helix.
• A lot of stuff that took me a while to figure out in VS Code was immediately obvious. How to toggle inlay hints for Rust? Parameter Icon > Inlay Hints (with the keyboard shortcut there for easy toggling).
• Interactive is generally intuitive because it seems pretty permissive. Tab vs Enter to autocomplete? Either! ctrl-shift-Z vs ctrl-Y to redo? Same thing!
• After being so used to Helix I often reach for keybinds that don't exist. I might have to learn Vim keybinds because I'm definitely going to keep trying Zed.
• Not sure how I feel about what seems to be an inline discord-like chat/voice-call feature.

Going to check out if there's git integration, because I couldn't easily find it.