It become open source just last week. Currently don’t have Linux version but soon it will have. Linux Roadmap issue
I’ll try it once Linux support kinda works
Don’t understand why they made it mac only, I don’t think mac users are even aware of other apps than what Apple tells them… :)
Apple users think they’re the smartest people on the planet.
It seems that a lot of their responses have been along the lines of: “Well, it’s because I have a Mac. Good luck if you don’t!”
I understand that, sure, but they would have had a lot more support for this editor if it was for Linux. Now I barely ever hear about it at all in the news.
Hot take: but I think it makes sense. If anyone would pay for a closed source editor it’s mac developers hence it made sense to chose that as your first platform to support, especially considering that they are a small startup. I don’t use mac either but I think they made the right choice from a business standpoint when they were still closed source.
It is open source
Hence the wording, right decision back when they were closed source :)
A bit of gratuitous self promotion but just to let people know if you liked Atom and are still using it or maybe you migrated to a new editor and still miss Atom, it was forked as Pulsar which is entirely community-led and is seeing a lot of active development to bring it up to date. We also have a lemmy community at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml
Just looked through it and I’m considering to switch!
I was wondering though, is there support for debugging sessions like VSCodium has? And what about remote development, SSH, docker integration and WSL2?
Also, can Pulsar run, inspect and debug (unit) tests?
None of those by default, Pulsar tends to stick to being an editor with as much as you need but not more by default. However one good thing about forking Atom was that we kept all the packages that were published to atom.io (more than 10k of them). You can browse them the PPR (Pulsar Package Registry) which was reverse engineered from Atom’s closed source backend from scratch before they took down the site - https://web.pulsar-edit.dev/.
Specifically there are a bunch of remote edit packages that work over SSH, a ton of Docker packages and there are plenty of debugging packages both generic and language specific and there are indeed test runner packages.
I won’t say I guarantee all of these will work but our Discord channel in particular is rather active so people more knowledgeable than I might well be able to help out, its a friendly place. We have other social channels as well should you prefer them.
So… after 9 years the guy finally realized that web technologies aren’t good for something that should be fast and handle large files. And he seems to be aiming towards some collaborative / cloud money grab.
… and he goes on to use Metal of all things, instead of Vulkan/MoltenVK, smh. I wouldn’t expect the Linux version to see the light of day anytime soon.
whats metal
Afaik, its Apples way to render things with their OS. It only works with Apple and its similar to DirectX which only works for Windows.
The best thing everyone should use is something that supports all platforms like OpenGL or Vulkan which is even Open Source
opemgl vs vulkan whays better?
In this case probably Vulkan, as developers tend to use current computers which support Vulkan, which is faster and younger and has less overhead.
In other cases you probably want OpenGL because older GPUs don’t support Vulkan and usually you want to include as many users as possible.
I’d love to have a vscodium alternative written in a faster and more efficient language. Most editors and IDEs don’t quite fit my workflow, while vscodium does.
Yep, I also want a good alternative to codium which run fastly on Potato. That’s why I am trying different Editor now days like Lite-Xl and other more.
Does kate from KDE suffice?
Didn’t try it yet. But, isn’t it just like Gedit?
Closer to Geany or Sublime. I haven’t used gedit before though. Kate has language server back end integration, add-on support, integrated terminal, and other features. Geany might be a good option, though I know nothing of its speed. Kate seemed fine but again no idea.
Just tried Kate. It’s so great. Have all features which I want Thanks for suggestion
Np, glad it was useful.
Can confirm that’s it’s very fast. Just lacking plugins at the moment.
I will watch it with great interest
I hope it gets there. I was a sublime user until vs code’s integrations got so far ahead that the productivity gains outweighed the slowness, but I really want it to be faster.
Do zed plugins have to be written in rust? If they do then that will slow community contributions since it’s not as popular as JavaScript for vs code.
Vs code is slow? Literally the entire reason I switched to it years ago is because it’s very fast.
Yep, VSCode is slow because it is built on Electron which is just a another browser.
Aware. V8 is fast.
V8 is heavy
And yet vs code is barely slower than editors with practically no features. Silly thing to argue about, but it’s certainly very fast considering the featureset
extensions tend to be the slow part in my experience. after a couple heavy extensions on an already struggling work laptop I’ll frequently outpace it’s input handling and have to wait for it to catch up
They certainly can be. Admittedly over time I’ve installed a lot of extensions but also gotten better hardware along the way. All I know is that despite having like 20 extensions installed I can startup vs code in just 3-5 seconds
