zed VS pulsar

Zed is a new, open source, multiplayer code editor written in Rust. It was developed by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter — Nathan Sobo, Antonio Scandurra, and Max Brunsfeld. The team launched Zed in early 2023 and later open sourced it in 2024.

There is an open issue about helix keybinds:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4642

Currently vim, but I’m very excited about Zed.

https://zed.dev/

The software engineering world has changed a lot, but it seems like both workers and companies haven't fully caught up yet. Recently, I've been having a lot of fun using Zed. It made programming enjoyable for me again, just like it was many years ago. Some people think Zed is just another unfinished editor, but that's not right. Zed is an AI tool. If you're not using Zed with GitHub Copilot and OpenAI GPT, you're not using it correctly, and you likely don't need Zed at all.

I don't mean to reply-guy this thread, but it builds on Windows (and Linux)

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...

You can try it out by downloading it from here https://zed.dev/

Now, fast forward to last year's Rails World conference that I was a lucky attendee of. What a breeze of fresh air! Among the many many inspiring people, talks and presentations, I noticed one thing: most people use VS Code, some use Vim but – more importantly – a lot of people tweak their editor / IDE almost as routinely as they tweak the code they work on professionally! And I thought: I want that too, how come I've lost this mindset here? I’ve taken for granted that I can tweak every imaginable aspect of my Linux OS as well as the Gnome environment so why not my IDE – the program that I literary spend most hours a day in? That was the final nudge for me to try to switch to something – anything really – that would be feasible for me to tweak and that’s how I ended up in VS Code. I’m not saying this will be my final IDE destination (looking at you Zed, Fleet or perhaps even Vim) but I know I want to stay closer to where a more active developer community around the editor is.

The GitHub issue #4424 for Zed relates to the lack of a feature for using local large language models (LLMs). In response to this, I proposed a workaround that enables the integration of local LLMs into Zed. This solution addresses the need for a non-proprietary, offline alternative to mainstream models like ChatGPT, potentially increasing privacy and control for users.

To integrate a custom model in Zed, I bypassed the limitation of only using OpenAI models. I did this by running the Mistral model from the Ollama library and cloning it to appear as "gpt-4-1106-preview." The steps included pulling and running the Mistral model, then using Ollama's commands to clone it. I updated Zed's settings to point to the local API URL of the cloned model. Restarting Zed applied these changes, enabling the use of the local LLM within Zed's environment.

For more details, you can refer to the GitHub issue directly: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4424#issuecomme...

You may be thinking of Pulsar (<https://pulsar-edit.dev/>)?

> 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/

I thought spiritual successor to Atom is Pulsar. https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar

Pulsar has a TTS package, for those who were very comfortable in Atom.

In addition to the already mentioned Emacs, I would check Pulsar, the Atom successor.

Community-led fork of Atom

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.

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.