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Thanks. I remember one of these had people being excited about it and I felt bad that I couldn’t try it. But Linux is hard and we are all so grumpy. I get it.
Give zed.dev a try. I’ve been using it over vscode more and more. Lots faster too
Their client is only on MacOS though.
Although no official release is available yet, Linux is buildable from source…
https://zed.dev/docs/development/linux
From what I see on github, there are major issues for Linux.
I am already fighting poorly designed vendor tools, adding one more unstable software in my workflow is just more frustrations.
Is that the Mac only one?
I believe Linux is close. Not seen anything re windows yet
Thanks. I remember one of these had people being excited about it and I felt bad that I couldn’t try it. But Linux is hard and we are all so grumpy. I get it.
Isn’t it closed source?
Nope. It’s all available on GitHub
I will check it out, ty
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed