No kidding. One of the YouTubers I followed was really shilling Zed editor. He didn't seem to mention that it was Mac only.

Well, I guess it's back to neovim on kiTTY terminal for me.

Sometimes I swear Mac based developers think the world revolves around them.

They are tracking support for other OSes, and I took a look at the Linux roadmap, and they've made some good headway from the last time I looked. I would use it for its UI performance. I don't like how everything these days use Electron. It also supports Language Server Protocol, so adding extensions for languages should be fairly simple for the community to do. The multiple collaboration seems cool too, although I think most devs would seldom use it.

They're planning Linux support

Only if they actually port it which is what they claim they will do but until then not at all

I recently learned there are people that think emacs and vi are bloated. They like acme or sam or something. Iceberg is so deep.

As an old coder this is the only religious war worth having. 😂

(Totally church of vi btw)

Represent! (It's vscode with all telemetry and crap removed, all your vscode extensions still work fine)

I think it already has vim motions. But I wouldn't know because there is no Linux build.

To be fair, there's a big difference.

VS Code is a text editor / IDE. Compared to something like Notepad++, it's super slow to open/load, its UI feels laggy at times, and it's just overkill for opening a text file. Compared to specialized log viewers, it struggles with large files and is generally super slow.
But compared to "full" IDEs like IntelliJ, it's marginal in coding features, lacking important analysis and testing support, plus integrations with ~everything.

If you find yourself in the middle, like many JS developers do, not actually needing the biggest IDE but also needing more than just a text editor, it's a fine tool. As a Java Backend Dev, VS Code feels like a joke if applied to that, OTOH.

I'm in Europe and VS Code is very popular, JetBrains stuff is around too tho. Both are bloated but VS Code is still way lighter.

I have a full JetBrains sub paid out for five years. I have dropped JetBrains for VS Code because I got tired of switching editors for everything and dealing with a Java-centric setup when I tried to streamline. Their decision to drop community Rust support in favor of only paid more recently also doesn’t sit well with me, especially given the PyCharm setup.

I swore up and down I would never leave Sublime for JetBrains.

For jvm stuff definitley yes. For other things I often prefer VS Code.

I must be the only one that actively dislikes Jetbrains products.

He doesn't develop text editors, so he uses what's popular. That's what most people do.

It's worth finding the best text editor if you're using it all day long imo

The technology is nothing alike though. Atom is Electron and Javascript where Zed is Rust with its own custom UI toolkit.

And on the current version of Pulsar (the only real community fork of Atom seeing active development), startup time to point of the editor being usable is actually slightly faster than VSCode.

I think this editor is supposed to be super fast because of their GPU or whatever libraries. It's also supposed to be written in Rust.

So far there's no extensions and just on Mac. Maybe when those open up I'll take a closer look.