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

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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      4 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.

    • PushButton@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Quoting the guy:

      “that rewriting those in Rust will take an eternity, so not sure what is actionable here, hence closing.”

      That’s Rust shining from all its glories here gentlemen…

      The best language, if there is nothing changing.

      That’s a thing to make a web server or a library that displays Fibonacci, that’s something else when there are humans with changing scopes…

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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        4 months ago

        Its not Rusts fault, the devs are simply lazy and making insecure products, as they dont want to rewrite everything.

        • PushButton@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          That’s what I am saying.

          To quote you: “they don’t want to rewrite everything” …

          Writing Rust often implies major refactoring and it takes so much time to write that your requests go: “pewf” closed due to the amount of effort it takes.

          Anyway, been there, done that! Zig is probably the real future; it’s a joy to write, it compiles fast, clear to read, and safe.

          It has shared libraries and a proper integration with existing C/CPP code base.

          You should try it, that’s an amazing language with a real potential to replace the legacy.

      • fxdave@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        I use rust only if we need performance, for small services. The industry does the same. People use node for backend but e.g. redis is in rust. It’s a good tool if you use it for the right stuff.

        EDIT: redis is not in rust, but e.g. aws writes many services in rust

        • PushButton@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          There are no patch, the issue has been closed as in rejected.

          There are a few tasks that are open that are loosely related, but let’s not mix things up.

          Moreover, I will take the words of the maintainers over a random potato on a forum.

          No offense…

            • PushButton@lemmy.world
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              4 months ago

              As I mentioned, a couple of tasks loosely related. The patch you are mentioning isn’t complete nor address the real problem.

              It is an ugly hack at best.

              Refrain from your urge to defend rust at all costs. You are sliding more and more toward the specifics of a project than the fact I stated about rust in general.

              If you still not get my initial point I’ve made, read this.

              That’s a long read explaining what I meant. My point was about Rust, not Zed or the developers of Zed in particular.

              And for the Zed editor, I wish them the best luck, it seems like a great project that people enjoy.

              Please feel free to comment and share your thoughts on the article above, my dear favorite nutritious veggie.

    • cerement@slrpnk.net
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      4 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)

  • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Zed seems cool, but not much better than other options. I am still kind of thrown off by the immediate GH/CoPilot integration. Am I the an old man left in the caves of feeling that I don’t need the AI help?

  • aramus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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

    • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      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!

      • booly@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        Shouldn’t the DE/Window Manager be handling that? Seems like doing it on a window by window basis would be inefficient (and look inconsistent).

        • leopold@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          The job of the window manager is to manage windows and very little else. Font rendering is done by the widget toolkit, usually via freetype/harfbuzz.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      4 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

        • RayJW@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          I think Zed is quite different from Atom. But Pulsar might be your thing. A direct fork of the last release of Atom being developed by ex Atom developers :)

          • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
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            4 months ago

            Just to clarify, the Pulsar devs aren’t ex-Atom devs. Some of the team are from atom-community but none of the core Pulsar team were part of the official Atom team.

            • RayJW@sh.itjust.works
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              4 months ago

              Oh, interesting. In that case I misunderstood that part, I thought there were core devs of Atom involved in Pulsar, thanks :)

              • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
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                4 months ago

                Watch this space for the full history, I’m literally putting the final touches on a blog post that will go into details of how Atom started then how it became Pulsar as a little celebration after we hit 3k stars.

      • Virkkunen@fedia.io
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        4 months ago

        Zed is not an IDE, it’s a code editor. No, they aren’t the same things, it’s like saying a table and a kitchen are the same thing.

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
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    4 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.

    • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t see why I should care about that. Gimme some crazy graphical effects, particles and shaders!

  • blackboxwarrior@lemmy.ml
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    4 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.