cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/8476122
Zed on Linux is out!
Might be neat. Might check it out. But devs really need to stop asking me to install things by curling a script and piping it into my shell. There are better ways to do this. Doing this leaves a massive possible attack surface.
No matter how they package it, running a binary downloaded from Internet has the same attack surface
You are right, except for one detail. Package managers almost always validate the packages using digital signatures, to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. You don’t need to trust the network anymore. Shell scripts piped to a shell don’t have that protection. You still have to trust the developers and maintainers, though.
Agree.
Not at all a security expert here, but maybe doing it inside a distrobox could be a temporary fix?
Forget it, I just tried and it seems it gets installed in your home directory so using distrobox doesn’t change anything (apparently, but as I said I’m not an expert so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong).
However, I’ve seen they also have it available through a bunch of package managers like nix, arch and Fedora
It’s not really an alternative yet, it’s in alpha versions…
But I think it will be great in a year.
No git tab still. Vscode > Zed for now.
What’s with these posts using misleading info recently?
This doesn’t look anything like vs code.
The only similarity might be they’re both ide’s
Uhm yeah both are text editors trying to pass as an IDE. And alternatives don’t have to look alike either.
Well… I just tested it… And actually it seems closer than I thought…
I have no idea though why they used screenshots without a project pane and such. It supports extensions and such too…
I can’t see a FIXME Extension though that highlights it yet though… Or a markdown preview extension (which I definitely need)
Why is zed so popular? What am I missing? Looks like just any other editor…
It’s really fast, has nice vim keybindings and has the potential to be a great open source VSCode alternative.
I don’t use it yet since it doesn’t have a built in Python debugger but I’ve been watching it closely. I really want to switch to it someday soon
VSCode (or the base app used by it) is open source (see: VSCodium). It has a similar relationship to Chrome and its base Chromium, where assets and tweaks are added to brand the product. You may have been trying to say “a great open source, VSCode alternative” and I misunderstood. Just commenting to remove ambiguity.
