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Zed DeltaDB

514 points · 298 comments · ahamez

  1. quacker · · focus · HN ↗
    This landing page is not good. It's mired in out-of-context jargon and implementation detail. (What does "virtualize the worktree" mean? Git already has "effectively free" branching. What does branching "mid-run" mean? How does a teammate "join while the work is happening"? What/where are they joining?).

    What actually is it and what value do I get out of it?

    Reading the linked blog posts: It's a layer on top of git for CRDT-based collaborative editing that captures addressable code deltas + agent conversations. I could have real-time collaborative humans + agents development and can resume any agent conversation from any point in history, because it is all stored (powered by DeltaDB). I guess?

    I actually might want this, but wouldn't know it from the landing page.

    1. gcr · · focus · HN ↗
      I think this is an evolution of Zed’s “multiplayer” CRDT features from a few years back, but with some new agent affordances.
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