Zed - Code at the speed of thought
zed.dev
Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

It become open source just last week. Currently don’t have Linux version but soon it will have. Linux Roadmap issue

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    202·
    10 months ago

    So… after 9 years the guy finally realized that web technologies aren’t good for something that should be fast and handle large files. And he seems to be aiming towards some collaborative / cloud money grab.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
      14·
      10 months ago

      … and he goes on to use Metal of all things, instead of Vulkan/MoltenVK, smh. I wouldn’t expect the Linux version to see the light of day anytime soon.

      • TCB13@lemmy.world
        71·
        10 months ago

        Well I guess he did it because it’s easier 😂 I don’t even get why this project exits, the gains over Sublime Text are minimal and people tend to go with VSCode because it’s free or some Jetbrains product for serious work because it’s way superior than all the other options.

        • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
          4·
          10 months ago

          It’s macOS’s graphics API, like how Windows has DirectX and Linux has Vulkan.

        • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
          1·
          10 months ago

          Afaik, its Apples way to render things with their OS. It only works with Apple and its similar to DirectX which only works for Windows.

          The best thing everyone should use is something that supports all platforms like OpenGL or Vulkan which is even Open Source

            • olorin99@kbin.earth
              1·
              10 months ago

              Neither is inherently better. It depends on what you need. Vulkan gives you more control which can be beneficial for advanced rendering techniques however comes at the cost of requiring more knowledge to use. OpenGL is simpler but generally has higher driver overhead.

            • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              In this case probably Vulkan, as developers tend to use current computers which support Vulkan, which is faster and younger and has less overhead.

              In other cases you probably want OpenGL because older GPUs don’t support Vulkan and usually you want to include as many users as possible.