• Pfnic@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    How is a MacOS only editor without extensions going to gain enough traction to be widely adopted?

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      No kidding. One of the YouTubers I followed was really shilling Zed editor. He didn’t seem to mention that it was Mac only.

      Well, I guess it’s back to neovim on kiTTY terminal for me.

      Sometimes I swear Mac based developers think the world revolves around them.

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        1 year ago

        You’re already on a superior editor friend. Don’t fall for the propaganda of lesser tools (that of course being anything not neovim)

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          Eeeehhhh, I was kinda jealous of one of my coworkers Doom Emacs setup. He had automated like 80% of his own job with it. Still haven’t bothered to try to learn it myself. One of these days…

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        1 year ago

        If you’re a fan of neovim I’d like to take this opportunity to give Neovide a shout. It’s essentially a purpose built terminal emulator that can only run Neovim and has some fun extensions with that in mind, like the ability to configure font, window size, fullscreen, window opacity etc. using Vim commands, implement sub-character scrolling, let Neovim floating windows have transparency, and have fun little animations when the cursor moves. It also has support for all the modern terminal emulation essentials like truecolor, ligatures, and emoji. https://neovide.dev/

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          I’ve tried it before, it’s fine but had issues running on wayland last I tried. Did they fix the wayland issues? Looking at the issue tracker it seems like there are still a few open Wayland issues.

          kiTTY by contrast has had Wayland support for about as long as I’ve used it.

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            1 year ago

            I’ve been using it exclusively with Wayland for about a year now and I’ve yet to have any issues. YMMV however.

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      They are tracking support for other OSes, and I took a look at the Linux roadmap, and they’ve made some good headway from the last time I looked. I would use it for its UI performance. I don’t like how everything these days use Electron. It also supports Language Server Protocol, so adding extensions for languages should be fairly simple for the community to do. The multiple collaboration seems cool too, although I think most devs would seldom use it.

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        11 months ago

        VSCode has tons of features that save a lot of time. Unless Zed manages to get close to feature parity, I don’t see how it can complete from a productivity point of view. VSCode’s UI performance isn’t stellar but it’s not nearly bad enough to counteract the productivity boost I get from its features.