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Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

267 mentions on Hacker News by 221 people: 18 stories, 249 comments · first 2024-01-24 · latest 2026-11-01

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  1. …some support to flatpak, but it's not distributed on flathub yet. You have to build by yourself https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by figomore · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  2. We have a flatpak build! It's not on flathub yet though :) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by mikaylamaki · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  3. …prepping this linux launch, we've started work on making this situation better. Follow along here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14034
    comment by mikaylamaki · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  4. …disable it, but you can't, as far as I can tell. There's this somewhat angry issue about it here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 They might have a point but beyond whether or not they have a point regarding the fact…
    comment by jchw · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  5. …if Zed wants to ship a binary package upstream that defaults to downloading things they can. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589
  6. This was also documented here, nearly 1-year ago: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6659 Where there is a VSCode theme importer for Zed. And what it does is silently install a Home Brew package and attempt to execute it on…
  7. Thanks for this response. Zed is awesome, haven't been able to switch to it full-time due to [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5065 , but do appreciate what's being built. It's a new product, which is clearly seeing quick…
  8. …extensions once we finish other projects. [0]: https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/extensions [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/langu... [3]:…
  9. …still thinking about how to best implement the UX for extensions downloading LSPs and whatnot. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomme...
  10. …in this space are greatly appreciated! I run Linux and Windows so I keep my eyes fixed on https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/12062#issuecommen... - - zed is a cross platform, gpu rendered, rust-based editor.. Jupyter support should…
  11. …(not sure why it's not prominently mentioned in in their docs though). The built-in ones are here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/extensions . There are others outside the main tree as well, all of which are accessible…
  12. …each bounty[1]. Here's an example of Scott Chacon using Algora to sponsor a bounty in the Zed repo https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4440 . He posted about his experience on Twitter here: https://x.com/chacon/status/1770005036170…
  13. …docs. (Some of them are source-available not free, I didn't keep track as I collected the URLs.) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed https://github.com/microsoft/vscode https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone…
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-05-29 · in Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
  14. …ightly-host.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/nightly... or github release, but only on *-pre tag like this https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.134.1-...
  15. you can build zed for linux, today :) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by iamnbutler · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  16. …mode UI framework[2]. [1]: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001 (fist post on his blog!) [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui
    comment by forgotpwd16 · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  17. I'm curious why Zed chose Blade over wgpu/wgpu-hal. There's a bit of detail here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015 But I'd be curious to read a longer writeup on the tradeoffs and how they came to their decision.
    comment by tylerekahn · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  18. …is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
    comment by genpfault · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  19. Last I checked, text was very blurry, so it's unusable for me https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
  20. And a WIP PR even: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/11130
    comment by infogulch · 2024-04-30 · in Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
  21. There is an open issue about helix keybinds: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4642
    comment by ssernikk · 2024-04-29 · in Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
  22. They're still WIP but build instructions are available for Linux and Windows: Building Zed for Linux: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev... Building Zed for Windows: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/…
    comment by infogulch · 2024-04-19 · in Extensible Language Support in Zed
  23. Its almost here. They've been making a lot of progress on windows and linux support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits/main/?since=20...
    comment by pc_edwin · 2024-04-10 · in Zed Decoded: Async Rust
  24. I don't mean to reply-guy this thread, but it builds on Windows (and Linux) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by simonerlic · 2024-04-09 · in Zed Decoded: Async Rust
  25. mac only: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394
    comment by 38 · 2024-04-09 · in Zed Decoded: Async Rust
  26. …local LLM within Zed's environment. For more details, you can refer to the GitHub issue directly: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4424#issuecomme...
    comment by sumanmichael · 2024-02-22 · in Local LLM Assistant in Zed Editor
  27. …it contains a TODO explaining that the code is unnecessarily quadratic and needs to be fixed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/12b12ba17a380e321... So if selecting all matches requires calling this function for each match then I…
  28. …github ticket about Zed being ported to Linux, the TLDR is... they're currently working on it. : https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015 It's a small set of contributors so expect that it will be a while.
  29. Here’s the commit: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/6700
  30. Looks like the Notebook request has been open for over a year. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5273 So according to the Lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect , it'll be more than a year before we see anything.
    comment by briandw · 2024-02-17 · in We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
  31. …can join this discussion to talk further about a11y in Zed: Accessibility (a11y) in Zed [links to: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/1297 ] And that link is useless, it goes to a Github issue about back and forward buttons.…
    comment by Jtsummers · 2024-02-17 · in We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
  32. …being developed. Here's a PR from 2 days ago that shows file-opening in Linux starting to work: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/7852 And so far Linux support has been a big community effort. I think more community member…
    comment by misternugget · 2024-02-17 · in We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
  33. …Edit: huh- i read that but the Cargo.toml does like Linux- maybe early Edit 2: Looks in progress https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015
  34. The Zed team disagrees. Here is what they say in the github discussion on the issue: ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394 ) "We will let you know when windows support is under development. The Zed team isn't taking feedback…
  35. Zed is the editor this video is rambling about. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
  36. This file does not need comments? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/multi...
  37. …arm64) Then, each of these binaries includes about 40MB of assets. I've actually had a PR up ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/3997 ) that reduced their size quite significantly, though that did not end up reducing the size of a…
  38. I think it's most of the "buffer" stuff here[0]. [0] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/2924/files#diff-e...
  39. For people following along at home, this was fixed with a 250x speed up (!) in https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/6700
  40. Maybe the tracking issue for Windows support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394
  41. I was curious myself what the hurdle is and so I checked out the latest tag and followed along with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/v0.119.18/.github... and it went ok except for building https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tre…
  42. …mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/gpui/...
    comment by icommentedtoday · 2024-01-24 · in GPUI - UI framework for Rust from the creators of Zed
  43. …like development is focused on Mac OS for now. Windows and Linux are not supported yet[1]. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5391
  44. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5347
  45. I have now: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6440
  46. I opened a discussion about that here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/4442
  47. I think this might be an issue for the same thing: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4352
  48. …is the only reason why I spend any amount of time in vscode now. There's an issue for it here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4424
  49. Here is a direct link to the repo: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed