Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/46897859

It is not my project.

I was looking for a lite version of Zed IDE without AI integrations, collab feature, telemetry etc and suddenly found it ^_^

I didn't test it excessively yet, but definitely give a try.

If you already tried it, please share your opinions.

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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I’ve kept my eye on this, not due to the AI, but because Zed is a scumbag organization that thinks mandatory opt-out arbitration is okay, because they don’t think their users should have rights. You of course don’t have to sign in but it still indicates they are an evil organization. Alas, I just keep on being super happy with Neovim so I don’t use it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I tried their editor a few times and found it a bit hard to get used to coming from VS Code. The thing that sank the ship for me honestly was when I found out that they don't support PDF previews in the editor. Given that I use VS Code to also write LaTeX documents, that is an essential feature for me that they seemed very opinionated about not including based on the issues I've seen on their git

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  • [+] -19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Sooo evil, making a great editor available completely for free that you don't have to use at all. How dare they? Practically Hitler!

    The entitlement is off the scale...

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    What the hell are you on about? I don't think I'm entitled to use their editor, hence as I said, not doing so. But I do think I'm entitled to my right to trial provided by a public institution with public accountability rather than a private organization with no accountability and no right to appeal.

    You don't have to be comparing something to Hitler to call it evil, which requiring people opt-out of giving up rights is. But hey... Stans gonna Stan.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    I am using gram for regular development and it works very well. Do not do any fancy stuff but auto-completion works fine as well as navigating the code base.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I’ve been using this daily since version 1.0.0 was released 2 months ago. Very few complaints.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I like Zed for the AI features, but it's nice that there's an alternative for people who don't.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    the Kremlin is the throne of a dictator, and Russia is an imperialist shithole that disrespects human rights and oppresses LGBTQ+ people.

    and I wish death to all states. I'm an anarchist, you knob. especially imperialist states like Russia, China, and the United States and Israel. death to them most of all.

    I use AI extensively, but I don't need it to write my comments. I can be the shittiest person you've seen on fedi without an LLM, thank you very much.

    does that comment sound like it was written by a bot, you slack-jawed slopper? :slopper:

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    [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Give me good ol' Sublime Text.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I have been using this for a little while. It works well. Installing extensions was slightly more difficult than regular zed. Otherwise it’s been a rather pleasant experience.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I tried Zed some time ago and it simply wasn't better than nvim.

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I remember reading about zed being the up and coming editor when Atom was sunsetting. I've been using Pulsar Editor, but is there a particular reason to jump ship to Zed/The Gram?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I used Zed for a few months a while ago. It feels quite fast, good extension availability even for how new it was, and offered a comparable experience to VSCode, but without the bloat. Sadly it quickly started going down the AI editor/LLM infested route and most development went into that, meaning actual fixes and improvements were getting slower (part of my reason for leaving it). It also introduced a few unwelcome changes to their ToS, starting the forks you see today. But overall it was a pretty nice editor, it gets out of the way and lets you focus on work instead of tinkering.

    Had to stop using it due to an intense graphical flickering when running on Sway that took way too long to fix, so I switched back to neovim while waiting for a fix and just stayed there.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago

    I used to use Atom back when , it was ok. Zed / Gram just feels more lightweight and performant , yet having everything you need without any customisation ( I never tried ai or collaboration features in Zed) - nothing live changing, just a good editor for rust . Anyway, I switched to helix and after some configuration it provides much better experience.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    I tried it last month and then an update suddenly caused it to stop working.

    https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues?q=&type=all&state=open&labels=1262818&milestone=0&assignee=0&poster=0

    It was great while it worked. I hope they fix it soon.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    I'll try it. I still want to make a move off of vs code/codium. I keep zed and lapce installed to keep an eye on but at work everyone uses vs code and its familiar to everyone. I don't know why more people don't give lapce a try or more attention. Zed seemed like it would be corporatized in some way since the beginning. I can see why editors like Kate aren't super adopted with the lack of plugins like vs code but it seemed like Lapce has a pathway to be as extensible

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    it has some recent commits on github. I think it can regain momentum. nothing compared to zed. This Zed fork may be suitable but I think it'd be better if community members went and gave lapce another go rather than continuing to base on and effectively be contributing to zed

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