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This Week at Zed Industries: #4

1 pointsby ghuntleyalmost 2 years ago

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romeobladealmost 2 years ago
I was highly interested in Zed and joined the wait list for Alpha&#x2F;Beta over a year ago. With that said, I&#x27;ve been using Linux as my only OS for 15 years. I was highly disappointed when the beta was released it was MacOS only.<p>Original documentation&#x2F;hype around it tried to make it seem like it would be a cross-platform competitor to VSCode and a replacement to Atom from the start. Recently they even locked the platform support GitHub issue for Linux with the below comment.<p>&gt; Cross platform support is still very much on our radar and we’re dedicated to support both Windows and Linux in the future. As we&#x27;ve previously stated, we aren&#x27;t taking feedback on the roadmap for platform support and as such we&#x27;ve decided to lock this issue. Any update regarding this will be noted on our website.<p>No open roadmap, no firm platform support commitments, and a closed development stance from the get go, make this a non starter for me.<p>At this point it wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if they plan on staying MacOS only and to start charging.<p>From their website:<p>&gt; We’re Zed Industries, a small and passionate team on a mission to build the world’s best text editor—for you, and for your team.<p>What&#x27;s funny, is my team of 30 people is 70% Linux 25% Windows with the remaining 5% being MacOS users who are managers who don&#x27;t touch code in spend their time in Jira&#x2F;ServiceNow.<p>I recently moved from VSCode&#x2F;Neovim back to Jetbrains&#x2F;Neovim and at this point I think I&#x27;m done switching.