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      • RayJW
        8·
        5 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·
          5 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·
            4 months ago

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

        • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
          7·
          5 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·
            4 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·
              4 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·
      5 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·
        5 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·
      5 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·
        5 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>