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Zed DeltaDB

514 points · 298 comments · ahamez

  1. umvi · · focus · HN ↗
    Hmm, yeah before "DeltaDB" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix:

    - Vertical activity bar (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;pull&#x2F;58868#issuecomment-4871602351" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;pull&#x2F;58868#issuecommen... - rejected because it &quot;doesn’t match our design vision for Zed&quot;)

    This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views.

    - Don&#x27;t crash my entire PC when there&#x27;s a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the working directory

    - Don&#x27;t freeze when resuming from suspension (I suspect this is GPU-driver related on linux) forcing me to `killall zed-editor`

    1. stusmall · · focus · HN ↗
      &gt; Don&#x27;t crash my entire PC when there&#x27;s a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the working directory

      I don&#x27;t think you can put this on Zed. An unprivileged userspace application, even if coded poorly, shouldn&#x27;t crash the machine.

      1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; An unprivileged userspace application, even if coded poorly, shouldn&#x27;t crash the machine.

        How would you prevent that? It can write until root disk is full, can take all your memory, saturate your CPU and a whole bunch of other stuff we (users) like to be able to do for the things that need them.

        Unless you&#x27;re suggesting something like Qubes or similar UX?

        1. itishappy · · focus · HN ↗
          Disk, memory, and CPU limits? The app should crash, not the kernel.
          1. embedding-shape · · focus · HN ↗
            Right, my point being that it&#x27;s should be up to the user to decide, because most of the times I run programs, I actually want them to be able to gobble up GB of disk, RAM and fully make use of my CPU. That&#x27;s why I bought the hardware I have :)
      2. umvi · · focus · HN ↗
        Sometimes OOM Killer can stop it before it wrecks too much havoc, but often everything grinds to a complete halt and I have to just power cycle.
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