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by agrippanux 805 days ago
Their plan is to make really elegant team-based shared coding features baked right into the editor - think a mashup of VSCode + Slack, and then charge for that, likely as a monthly subscription. It's not a bad idea if it can increase team velocity but the requirement would be enough people on the team live within it to justify the cost.

I drove Zed for about a month, its very performant and a joy to use, but the lack of a remote development feature is massively prohibitive and I went back to VSCode as a result.
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nicce 805 days ago
There are way too many other features missing as well to do anything serious to be fair. All the things you would like proper IDE to do to increase your productivity.

Let's see in couple years.

The biggest problem is to get those initial features decent so that you can extract the value from crowdsourcing the missing things like VSCode does.

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sdesol 804 days ago
> crowdsourcing the missing things like VSCode does.

Based on what I am seeing right now [1], they might well have enough inertia to seriously compete against VSCode. I've analyzed a lot of open source projects and their community engagement on GitHub is quite impressive. Their contributor and new contributor stats is still going up, even though the initial hype was 2 months ago, which is really impressive.

If they can get proper support for Linux and Windows and nail core features, I can see people wanting to contribute in the future and business leaders paying for it, if they can demonstrate improved productivity and collaboration.

Full disclosure: This is my tool

[1] https://devboard.gitsense.com/zed-industries?board=gitsense....

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cultofmetatron 804 days ago
they could do it if they built a proper plugin system. right now if its ot compiled in, you can't add it.
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metabagel 805 days ago
What do you mean by "remote development feature"? Debugging remotely, a la gdbserver?
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dj_gitmo 805 days ago
Not the OP, but what I assume they are referring to is the ability to work on a remote host. For example if I have a Mac but I am working on a remote Linux box, VSCode will allow me to easily work sync with a repo on the remote host. It will also seamlessly handle port-forwarding for web dev.

IMO this is the best feature of VSCode.

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dwattttt 805 days ago
It installs and runs a server stub over SSH (or into docker, or WSL), which lets it act as if you're working on a local project. Stuff like the built-in terminal is remote, building, debugging, etc all work remote.
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