Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn?

I can believe it’s good and cool ( built in graphics and collab seem to me like good ideas).

But as someone who happily stayed with sublime (with LSPs a likely game changer) …

takes like “it’s fast!”, “LSP!”, “it now has snippets!” … along with people telling me it has a plug-in system, but doesn’t (cf python/lua runtimes of sublime/nvim) give me massive hype vibes and honestly just feels very “2020s-tech”.

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I get that peeps are coming from VSCode and I support competition with MS’s EEE of software dev.

But, like, bloat and corporate capture were always the trade offs with VSCode … you all knew that right?

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I kinda alternate between vscode and vim. Just depending on how I feel. Never really thought of branching out as other things feel too much. Like I tried pycharm and was not sure where the community stuff ended and where the professional started (free in uni). Netbeans was alright for a class. Sublime was cool, but I didn’t do anything special.

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I’m a fellow Sublime user and recently got excited about trying Zed. it’s a good editor and fairly similar to Sublime, but lacked some language support and the plugins are still very few compared to other mature editors. also, it’s not quite as configurable as Sublime, for example choosing the LSP or linters. but it’s still in early development with frequent updates so I keep it installed and watch the releases

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> he plugins are still very few compared to other mature editors. also, it’s not quite as configurable as Sublime

AFAIU, it doesn’t have a plugin runtime, which is fairly glaring to me (but maybe not for devs these days).

This is what triggered my “is it hype” thought, as I’ve seen people say it does but it’s in rust or something.

And I feel like many fail to realise how hard it is to build a new editor with everything we take for granted these days.

Fediverse & typst similarly.

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it does have plugins, or “extensions” rather, and yes they are written in rust and compiled to webassembly. but currently there are still very few of them. although it’s a growing list

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Well, yes, it currently lacks several basic things. But remote development is a killer feature to me and they seem to be prioritizing it.

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But remote development is a killer feature to me and they seem to be prioritizing it.

Which is definitely interesting and cool. (Also, before this AI “moment”, their main selling point, along with taking graphics more seriously, and rust I suppose).

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However it should be noted that the remote development connection is via their servers, which makes it somewhat less useful

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For now. But what I can say from my experience with VS Code is that their tunnel connection is far more stable than a direct SSH one; a tunnel also lets you punch through the workplace VPN, so that’s what I keep using.

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Yes.it is hype. Because it is a product still in development. Windows is not yet officially supported, and they announced Linux like one month ago.

It still lacks some basic features. However, what they already have looks good, it is much more performant that vscode.

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vscode without any extension is very performant.

It’s easy to get better performance when you don’t have features.

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