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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)
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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[-] markstos@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Anyone care to compare this with Helix?

[-] Bolt@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Very first impressions since I literally just downloaded before writing this, and haven't read the manual, I may change my mind with more experience.

  • It's incredibly snappy, to my eyes as fast as Helix.
  • A lot of stuff that took me a while to figure out in VS Code was immediately obvious. How to toggle inlay hints for Rust? Parameter Icon > Inlay Hints (with the keyboard shortcut there for easy toggling).
  • Interactive is generally intuitive because it seems pretty permissive. Tab vs Enter to autocomplete? Either! ctrl-shift-Z vs ctrl-Y to redo? Same thing!
  • After being so used to Helix I often reach for keybinds that don't exist. I might have to learn Vim keybinds because I'm definitely going to keep trying Zed.
  • Not sure how I feel about what seems to be an inline discord-like chat/voice-call feature.

Going to check out if there's git integration, because I couldn't easily find it.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Going to check out if there's git integration, because I couldn't easily find it.

Asking this because I'm noob, not elitist ass: Why a git integration in ide instead of using the cli? I've been working only on few projects where git is used, but the cli seems to be a ton easier to understand how to work with than the git integration in vscode which I discarded after few attempts to use

[-] flux@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A great git integration can work well in an editor. I use Magit in Emacs, which is probably as full-featured Git-client as there can be. Granted, for operations such as cherry-picking or rebasing on top of a branch or git reset I most often use the command line (but Magit for interactive rebase).

But editor support for version management can give other benefits as well, for example visually showing which lines are different from the latest version, easy access to file history, easy access to line-based history data (blame), jumping to versions based on that data, etc.

As I understand it vscode support for Git is so basic that it's easy to understand why one would not see any benefits in it.

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