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        • RayJW
          8·
          6 months ago

          I think Zed is quite different from Atom. But Pulsar might be your thing. A direct fork of the last release of Atom being developed by ex Atom developers :)

          • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
            9·
            6 months ago

            I just mean that I liked the work that the devs did on Atom, which makes me want to try this one out too

            • RayJW
              1·
              6 months ago

              Oh, in that case you might like either. I think both are great in their own way!

          • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
            7·
            6 months ago

            Just to clarify, the Pulsar devs aren’t ex-Atom devs. Some of the team are from atom-community but none of the core Pulsar team were part of the official Atom team.

            • RayJW
              1·
              6 months ago

              Oh, interesting. In that case I misunderstood that part, I thought there were core devs of Atom involved in Pulsar, thanks :)

              • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
                1·
                6 months ago

                Watch this space for the full history, I’m literally putting the final touches on a blog post that will go into details of how Atom started then how it became Pulsar as a little celebration after we hit 3k stars.

      • Virkkunen@fedia.io
        122·
        6 months ago

        Zed is not an IDE, it’s a code editor. No, they aren’t the same things, it’s like saying a table and a kitchen are the same thing.

        • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          6 months ago

          This distinction is not as meaningful as it used to be before LSPs; there’s little a PyCharm IDE can do that you can’t do in VS Code editor for example.

      • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Thanks. I briefly used Atom (on Win) but stopped as it was terribly slow to startup.

        What is the software license for Zed? It’s Github page isn’t clear.

        • furzegulo1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          15·
          6 months ago

          The code for Zed itself is available under a copyleft license to ensure any improvements will benefit the entire community (GPL for the editor, AGPL for server-side components). GPUI, the UI framework that powers Zed, is distributed under the Apache 2 license, so that you can use it to build high-performance desktop applications and distribute them under any license you choose. https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-now-open-source>