Comment by jhallenworld
18 hours ago
Awesome, this is creating an opportunity for a new text editor. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
18 hours ago
Awesome, this is creating an opportunity for a new text editor. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
There is still Emacs, Sublime Text, Brief (oldie but still around), Notepad++,...
The problem are the extensions, I bash Electron all the time, yet I use VSCode almost daily because of certain extensions.
Just switched to Zed because every vscode release breaks more than fixes.
When I get fed up with VSCode, I run Emacs and I feel happy until I start working on something else that can be done a little faster on VSCode because of the available extensions.
I feel like we almost need government intervention to keep GitHub an open commons, but I am a Libertarian and I distrust the government perhaps even more than the tech industry - still an open question for me.
Lock in and control by huge corporations is almost always uniformly bad. I have accepted the message of great books like Privacy is Power, The Tech Coup, and Surveillance Capitalism, and I feel pretty good about just using Google’s Gemini APIs when I need them, and lean as hard as possible on open models running on Ollama and LM Studio. There are also little things you can do like not installing apps and using web apps.
Back to test editors: the Lem Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp is an interesting project https://github.com/lem-project/lem
GitHub is not, and never has been, an open commons. There has always been a terms of service, and GitHub has been able to remove accounts and repositories at will.
Further, git is made to be decentralized. Having the government take over a business to maintain a centralized source is the peak of absurdity.
yes, re-reading my comment I accept your points.
Zed also turned into ai slob already
I don't object to AI features. I just don't want them to only work on AI features. There are plenty of editor related things that they should still be doing. E.g. the ability to show images in the editor. How neat would that be?