runs only on MacOS
And
get it into the hands of millions of developers
Seems contradictory
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Yup. Especially since it's written in Rust... Like why? Rust has a great cross-platform story.
I guess if you are committed to supporting a hard to support platform, may as well get it out of the way first?
But yeah, seems like a pretty poor release.
Sounds cool! Too bad it's only on MacOS atm
They wrote their own GUI toolkit (oof) and it's hardware accelerated (argh), so OS portability is going to be unusually difficult unless they planned for it from the beginning. No mention of that in the article, so I doubt they did.
They already have very experimental Linux support. You have to build whole app yourself though. I'd say that in month or two we'll get a binary. You can track Linux porting progress in this issue
Anybody got a nix flake though?
I mean on the one hand, the hardware acceleration is awesome. The GUI toolkit is not of course (I assume MacOS has a default one to make everything look like it belongs?), but at least they made it look like a native app instead of the usual electron shit where it's clearly a web page with a window border and some design 15y old me might think is cool but 16y old me would already have been ashamed of.
As I understand, GUI toolkits will usually support various widget styles or "Look and Feels".
So, they can just use a glossy graphic for a button on macOS and a flat graphic on Windows 11, without having to reimplement the whole application in the native toolkit. It will usually not feel entirely native, but at least, it won't look out of place...
Its already possible to build manually on linux and there's a tracking issue.
*edit. same as the other post
Sounds like gimp with gtk (gimp toolkit) all over again
I'm waiting for it to come on Linux.
Looking forward to the memes once this dies
(Zed's dead)
I'll be watching this one. It looks nice. Please come to Linux. I do loves me my vim. I did not like setting it up as much as I thought I would to be an IDE. I'm sorry I was mean Zed.
Yes, that was mean, because nobody is able to make another editor as powerful as vim.
Time will tell for sure, but helix is looking really good and once they have support for plugins I'm rather sure it will be a very, very powerful editor.
I don't think helix will ever catch up to a lot of vims lesser know features of which there are a lot. I think that's by design as well, I think that helix wants to have a smaller surface area than vim and for a lot of people that will be the right choice. I personaly use ex-commands for example, or the quickfixlist fairly often so for me I have a hard time imagining helix not feeling like a step down power-wise (as nice as multiple cursors are).
VSCode has way more features than Vim. Including the ability to run Vim inside the IDE. Or Emacs.
Sais no-one that knows vim, thou it have a vi-like mode that is missing most advanced vi-trixs.
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I tried it briefly. It certainly is a lot snappier than Atom ever was, I'll give it that. Seemed to be pretty good with Python, but when I opened some C++ source, it went around reformatting my indentation and replaces tabs with spaces. I will have to see if there is a way to disable all that, as I found it obnoxious.
If I wrote an IDE and detected tabs I'd just have it delete the codebase
It was more than just tab conversion. For example, it decided on its own that:
if(...) {
...
}
else {
...
}
would look better like:
if(...) {
...
} else {
...
}
I mean I guess I could live with that, but really? I imagine there's some config where you can disable all this, but it just doesn't seem worth some giant git commit every time I touch a file with the editor.
Ah I think I found it. I need to go:
{
"format_on_save": "off"
}My guess is that it has that default because they use Rust. Everyone uses rustfmt so everything looks the same and if you always format before a commit you never get massive diffs.
Most rust projects I've seen even have a ci job to check the formatting with rustfmt.
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Shout out for Lapce.
I remember reading a bit about this (from Atom) a while back and having iffy feelings... I don't wish to slander based on vague memories but certainly at the time I hoped Lapce would catch on instead.
It's still in development, but has a handful of aspects that I really like as the right way to go about things.
Nice, been finding vscode more and more laggy after each update, so hopefully this is something to replace it with at some point.
The inevitable cycle of modern open-source text editors. First there was Atom, then that got too slow and most switched to VS Code. Next seems to be Zed... I wonder what comes after it!
Lapce looks pretty cool, for an alpha.
I had the same prob, when I swapped to Codium and paired down my plugins, it was snappy again.
How did Zed get so much publicity? Do they happen to have a lot of funding or something? I've seen a million of these posts and I'm just really uninterested, as does a big portion of comments I see.
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