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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)
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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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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 197 points 5 months ago

Installer is piping curl into shell

I thought we were past this as a society 😔

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 68 points 5 months ago

Not until after you convince these projects to stop using discord

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago
[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

ooh, available for “x86_65” on Alpine

(and they’ve fixed that now)

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Have you really not heard of it? It is a new architecture that is a bit better than x64_64.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

imagine the nightmare of writing a 65 bit instruction set

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[-] kazaika@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

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

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

So it should say hey check your distros package repos first.

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[-] wfh@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

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.

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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 141 points 5 months ago

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomment-1916315391

They auto download binaries, even proprietary ones, unsigned and without user interaction.

YEAH security!

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 37 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 31 points 5 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

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[-] MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de 123 points 5 months ago

There ought to be a rule that posts about software releases have to say what it is.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 60 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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)

[-] ksp@jlai.lu 13 points 5 months ago

My bad, it's up now

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 48 points 5 months ago

also seems to have some security issues …

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[-] blackboxwarrior@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 months ago

I am BEGGING for any editor other than VSCode to have decent remote development. I want to go open source but everything I've tried (remote-nvim, distant, tramp, vscodium, etc.) just doesn't cut it.

[-] potosi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] tabular@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

What's that?

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

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

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago

New Editor, by Atom Devs, Rust

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Oh man I LOVED Atom. Giving this new one a test drive now :)

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[-] aramus@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

I still don't understand why I should need GPU acceleration for my fucking TEXT EDITOR

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 37 points 5 months ago

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

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

It was surprising how gpu accelerated rendering helped read logs better. Niche case, but better was better.

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[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can see the beginning of something truly great in this editor. It's going to become better than VS code in a year.

It's already great for some languages like Go and Rust.

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[-] mogoh@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

Interesting project, how ever it will be hard to compete with existing editors and its plugin eco-systems.

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 18 points 5 months ago

I still do not understand why Zed makes such a big deal about being GPU accelerated when you'll be hard pressed to find a single text editor nowadays that isn't.

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[-] markstos@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Anyone care to compare this with Helix?

[-] Bolt@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

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.

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[-] peppy@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

How's Lapce?

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