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by nicce 806 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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> 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....

they could do it if they built a proper plugin system. right now if its ot compiled in, you can't add it.