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Zed DeltaDB

514 points · 298 comments · ahamez

NoDodgeQuestion · 1785958008 · focus · HN ↗
Zed should focus on basics. When it focuses on basics Zed is good.
<a href="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 failing to show newly created files and declining to provide a refresh button, instead adding a polling backend, breaks Zed on WSL.
Why a new version control system? Why not git, jj, or another existing system?
1. rozap · 1785971624 · focus · HN ↗
  It's funny, zed started out really refreshing, and now it's degraded to the point where it's fairly unusable. Regularly it would tie up tons of resources on my fairly beefy laptop. I switched back to sublime and it is a breath of fresh air, I didn't realize how slow zed had gotten. It seems like maybe they lost their way a bit, but I recognize that also they need to make money presumably, and it's hard to do that with a large team and a focused product.
  1. norman784 · 1785999581 · focus · HN ↗
    Did you check if the resources were consumed by the LSP or Zed? Also there was a Zed fork without the AI stuff, not sure if is a hard fork or not and if is still maintained (IIRC wasnt hosted on Github)
    Nnnes · 1786006580 · focus · HN ↗
    Gram Editor. It's actively maintained.
    I know people disagree over definitions of "hard fork". Gram does not send patches to Zed but does occasionally merge fixes from Zed. There is not any specific effort to keep (non-AI) feature parity.
    <a href="https://gram-editor.com" rel="nofollow">https://gram-editor.com
    <a href="https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram
    vorticalbox · 1786014000 · focus · HN ↗
    have they fixed the file refresh issue?
    Squarex · 1786025822 · focus · HN ↗
    Why does the author hate the AI so much?
    conartist6 · 1786036055 · focus · HN ↗
    AI takes from talented hardworking people and gives to lazy and incurious people. How could that possibly breed resentment? I'm stumped.

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