In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
    •  simple   ( @simple@lemm.ee ) 
      20•5 months ago

      It’s open source, and they already said they were Mac only because they used Metal for rendering. It’s not suspicious for devs to use what they’re most familiar with.

    •  trevor   ( @trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
      11•5 months ago

      While I generally agree with your skeptical attitude toward this, I think the fact that they were targeting Apple’s Metal graphics API to built the most performant possible IDE makes sense. You can’t just snap your fingers and have a Linux graphical stack start working with your software.

      I think the reason they targeted macOS first is probably because many of the dev team uses Macs.

      As a Linux user, I’ll happily wait for software like this to get ported to native Linux APIs so we get performant text editors instead of more Electron crap.

      •  LeFantome   ( @LeFantome@programming.dev ) 
        3•5 months ago

        As a die-hard Linux user, I understand that most of their devs probably used Macs. Sadly, they are likely not an outlier which means many ( most ) of their target customers are Mac users too.

        Overall, I applaud their focus and platform native approach. Let’s hope we get a decent Linux editor out of it at some point.

  •  Responsabilidade   ( @BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ) English
    11•5 months ago

    I miss the point why they don’t invested into Flatpak. I mean, with Flatpak they could’ve focus on make Zed works on the Flatpak platform and, as a consequence, it will be fine in every distro. The only thing that they should’ve be taking care is X11 and Wayland, but every other aspect to worry such as distro choice, QT/GTK, Gnome/KDE, etc would be vanished away