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1,251 | 2,939 | |
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0.0 | 9.9 | |
3 months ago | 8 days ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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GPUI 2 is now in production – Zed
I'd love to try this, though the large number of projects that only support MacOS perplexes me. This excludes at least 80% of people with computers that would like to use your software and effectively limits it to a class of folk with money, creating a sort of nasty exclusivity to the software that does this when there doesn't seem to be a platform-limiting factor.
Their Windows Support Issue was opened on Jun 29, 2022 and the Linux one on the same day, so they're just under two years old. It seems that this isn't source-available right now either, though they mention they'll open source it at some point, but it prevents contributions toward this end too.
The websites this (https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/2197) list as the reason for blocking the other OSes though it's quite sparse and doesn't say much.
Genuine and non-argumentative question; why? Easier to focus on one platform for the purposes of achieving good stability before supporting more than one OS, or trying to get a userbase that is typically more willing to pay for your software? Investor pressure?
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Thoughts about Zed Editor
Most of this is public info btw. You can look at their hackernews/reddit announcement threads or https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/52
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Zed – A high-performance, multiplayer code editor written in Rust. Now in public beta
If anyone wants to express support for windows/linux support, go to https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/174 and give it a thumbsup.
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Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta
https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/446
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v0.61.0 is out
* Added settings to customize the locations and names of journal files ([#479](https://github.com/zed-industries/feedback/issues/479), [#382](https://github.com/zed-industries/feedback/issues/382)).
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Neovim 0.8 Released
Zed and Helix are both pretty new.
There's demand for plugin frameworks/scriptability in both but neither of them support it yet. I fully understand why people who need to script their editor are sticking with [neo]vim/Emacs — there are very few other options at the moment.
https://github.com/zed-industries/feedback/issues/388
https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806
- Submit feedback for the private alpha of Zed code editor here
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Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
You may be thinking of Pulsar (<https://pulsar-edit.dev/>)?
- Python Text Editor
- Armed with a big ol' can of Raid: Pulsar 1.110.0 is available now!
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Open-Source Washing
> VSCodium is not "designed" to be less functional, since it is a project maintained by developers who are unaffiliated with Microsoft.
In today's (OSS) world, employment or affiliation doesn't matter much. Microsoft can propose what they want and get what they want from the project, at the end of the day. I don't think these independent maintainers have power to say "No" (if a VSCodium developer can chime in here, I'd love to be stand corrected), or they risk VSCodium to be forked to VSCodiumX, by developers who are friendlier to the megacorp which loves Linux.
Yes, VSCodium is a node to Chromium. "-ium" has a ring akin to "-ish" in today's conjecture. Freemium - Free-ish but not. Chromium - Chrome-ish but not. VSCodium - VSCode-ish, but not. This might be curse in the naming, but it feels like that, at least for me.
The blog post I linked quotes a tweet which supports what I'm saying, heck even the blog post does a much better job of detailing what I was trying to say here in my previous comments.
To circle back, the problem with -ium projects are, they are effectively banned from participating in the main ecosystem which drives these projects forward, and to be in "The Ecosystem", you need to use the closed source versions with pervasive data collection and whatnot. Heck, even Google abuses Chromium with "Experiments and Proposals", which they use to politely yet forcefully push the web to the places they want. VSCodium is the same getaway drug and test vessel for Microsoft.
Lure with Open Source version, trap with closed source version for "Full Benefits" (for the company, because user is the product).
> You're entitled to your own opinion, but Atom was developed by GitHub...
Yes & yes.
> which was acquired by Microsoft.
Yes.
> It doesn't help that Atom was discontinued last year, with the final version having been released in March 2022
However, it's forked as Pulsar [0], which I meant by "current form" in my previous comment. Again, it's MIT licensed, and that's not my favorite, but at least it's not a company editor now.
Atom's original developers started to build Zed, which is worst of both worlds currently (Open source with a closed backend, plus "All your data belong to us" clause).
At the end of the day, from my perspective "-ium" projects and their sanitized versions are just open-core versions of the "main tools" developed from them.
Just because these versions somehow work, and have a permissive license doesn't make them open source in the meta sense. Pedantically they are open source software, yes, but they are just the "Open Core" or Demo/Shareware versions of the tools which companies use to strange to ecosystems.
This is just enshittification of open source in my eyes.
More power to you if you're happy with the -ium tools, but I'd rather use truly free software (Like Eclipse), or use completely honest closed source software (like BBEdit), instead of using tools designed to look like open source but not.
[0]: https://pulsar-edit.dev/
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Chime – Capable. Focused. Fast. An open source editor for macOS
I thought spiritual successor to Atom is Pulsar. https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar
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Help: Atom Alternatives/Copy-Pasting Scripts
Pulsar has a TTS package, for those who were very comfortable in Atom.
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Libre-friendly IDEs?
In addition to the already mentioned Emacs, I would check Pulsar, the Atom successor.
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Im new to lua, what are the best Lua IDE?
Community-led fork of Atom
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Clarification question
Also, don't worry - we understand that there's documentation lacking on the "extend Pulsar" part and on package creation, but we're working on it. We're also working on better ways to test, document, and create packages (and grammars - see, for example, how we usually tested grammars in the past and how we're migrating to for example), so it's just a matter of time, really.
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Best FOSS text editor like atom?
Our website is https://pulsar-edit.dev/, feel free to check out or Discord server if you want to come and say hi or have any questions - we are a friendly bunch.
What are some alternatives?
darling - Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
hydrogen - :atom: Run code interactively, inspect data, and plot. All the power of Jupyter kernels, inside your favorite text editor.
neovimcraft - website that makes it easy to find neovim plugins
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
put-cpptools-in-prison - solution for the cpptools victim
vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
Launch.nvim - 🚀 Launch.nvim is modular starter for Neovim.
lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor