Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn? - eviltoast

Is the new #zed editor mostly hype rn?

I can believe it’s good and cool ( built in graphics and collab seem to me like good ideas).

But as someone who happily stayed with sublime (with LSPs a likely game changer) …

takes like “it’s fast!”, “LSP!”, “it now has snippets!” … along with people telling me it has a plug-in system, but doesn’t (cf python/lua runtimes of sublime/nvim) give me massive hype vibes and honestly just feels very “2020s-tech”.

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  • eldereko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    it does have plugins, or “extensions” rather, and yes they are written in rust and compiled to webassembly. but currently there are still very few of them. although it’s a growing list