[daghamm]

Man, what kinda of QA do they have that they miss something like this? WSL can be considered the second largest Linux "distro".

Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen.

[bozey07]

That seems a bit rude. You get the QA you paid for - zero.

And nevertheless, whenever Windows software doesn't work in Wine, you shouldn't think "Wow, how did you fuck that up?". They never promised it'd work in WSL.

[the_gipsy]

It's a company, not volunteers. They're obviously have some long-term strategy to extract money beyond support (it's an editor). They are doing a lot ok marketing right now (dev-rel).

It's very much okay to have high expectation, even if the product costs zero. The user is the product, and so on.

[bobbylarrybobby]

Code that panics on bad external input (such as the OS) is incredibly sloppy. They already have the Result — they can just bubble it up and present an actual error message (and maybe even ask for diagnostics, etc).

[daghamm]

I disagree.

They are on front page of HN with "zed on Linux is here". We got to have some standards, don't you think?

[Carrok]

One could easily reply an equally snarky answer of “Use a real OS, not MSFT spyware. We got to have some standards, don’t you think?”

[umanwizard]

WSL is a pretty niche version of "Linux". I would guess that close to 0% of what makes it to the front page of HN had a QA team that explicitly tested it on WSL.

[zapnuk]

niche?

WSL (all distros combined) is the 2nd most popular Linux environment. Only behind Ubuntu.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...

[daghamm]

Please stop making up facts.

1 of 7 Rust developers use WSL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...

[JSR_FDED]

I’m pretty sure there’s more than 7 Rust developers.

[usr1106]

Maybe the Rust community and Windows users have a smaller intersection than let's say Windows and Ubuntu?

[jorams]

It's pretty self-evident that Linux support can't be expected to mean Windows support. If something is broken in the Windows simulation of a Linux GUI stack you should be complaining to Microsoft, not to the developers of a program that works fine in a normal environment.

[kelnos]

Maybe they didn't do any on Windows, because this is for Linux, not Windows. WSL is still not Linux. They do appear to have Windows build instructions, though[0]?

[0] https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows

[oblio]

> Of course, zed has always felt like an osx first project with linux/windows being second class citizen.

Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't even run on Windows...

https://zed.dev/docs/#download-zed

[tills13]

You can build it yourself for Windows iirc

[oblio]

True, but the fact that they don't build and package it means I'd be a beta tester, at best. Most likely alpha tester.

[crabbone]

I've not heard of QA in open-source projects... unless it's something peddled by a big corp (eg. Chrome, Go, VSCode etc.)

You are lucky if there's some automated unit testing, but that's as far as these things go. Programmers don't like, don't know and don't want to know how to QA. Also, they generally look at QA with contempt... so, unless forced to, they won't do it.