Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead? No, wait – it's on Windows Zed Industries has released a public beta of its code editor for Windows, marking a significant milestone for the Rust-based VS Code alternative that has until now been limited to macOS and Linux users. Zed running on Windows in the new beta version Zed running on Windows in the new beta version The move addresses a …
Which some of us have been enjoying, even on Windows, for decades. Or DOS (you had to be typing pretty damn fast to get ahead of BRIEF on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088).
What on earth have people been doing to make *any* editor non-snappy, non-responsive, in these days of 16GB-plus RAM, multi-core CPUs running at ludicrous speeds? And why have people making comments like that been choosing to use whatever monstrosity rather than look for anything better - oh, wait, let me guess, none of the editors with a long history are New and Exciting.
It seems you haven't used any recent versions of microsoft software (good), as if you can operate a computer at a reasonable speed, you spend most of your time waiting for software to load, install and/or process, during which you can't really do much else.
I’ll still stick with vim. It starts up before my finger fully lifts off the keyboard after typing “vim”. And it shuts down and gets out of my way equally fast.
Most of the “GUI-type” editors I’ve seen take several seconds (at least) to put their ducks in order to the point where you can actually use them. And somehow this is (apparently) “acceptable”. Baffling considering (as you point out) the ludicrous speed of a modern PC
If I want a code editor I'll use a full fat IDE thanks.
What I want is a good text editor that launches in a fraction of a second and has useful features for editing text which may or may not be code. I don't want an Electron frankenweb app, Git integration, AI support, multi-agent collaboration, etc, etc. I also don't want to know what language it was written in because if you're that desparate to tell me then it was a religious choice, not a technical one.
So far Sublime is the best I've found but they too can't resist the kitchen sink approach to adding pointless features.
...then wrote our own GPU-accelerate UI framework to transcend the limitations of Electron."
What?!? Someone wrote a desktop app that wasn't just a webapp wrapped in Chromium? Is such a thing even possible? It's amazing what they can do these days! Not f-ing surprised it launches into <200MB instead of the bloated mess you get with anything using Electron.
“…yet Windows remains the workhorse for nearly half the profession: 49.5 percent of professional developers“
I can’t help thinking that many of that 49.5% are only using windows because their employer insists on it. It seems to be an increasingly common scenario where the first thing any software dev does with a new windows box it to stick a VM on it running Linux. You know - to actually do the actual work you’re being paid to do
