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No matter how they package it, running a binary downloaded from Internet has the same attack surface
You are right, except for one detail. Package managers almost always validate the packages using digital signatures, to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. You don’t need to trust the network anymore. Shell scripts piped to a shell don’t have that protection. You still have to trust the developers and maintainers, though.
Shell scripts have md5 signatures
Agree. Not at all a security expert here, but maybe doing it inside a distrobox could be a temporary fix?Forget it, I just tried and it seems it gets installed in your home directory so using distrobox doesn’t change anything (apparently, but as I said I’m not an expert so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong).
However, I’ve seen they also have it available through a bunch of package managers like nix, arch and Fedora
It’s not really an alternative yet, it’s in alpha versions…
But I think it will be great in a year.
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Uhm yeah both are text editors trying to pass as an IDE. And alternatives don’t have to look alike either.
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No git tab still. Vscode > Zed for now.
Why is zed so popular? What am I missing? Looks like just any other editor…
It’s really fast, has nice vim keybindings and has the potential to be a great open source VSCode alternative.
I don’t use it yet since it doesn’t have a built in Python debugger but I’ve been watching it closely. I really want to switch to it someday soon
VSCode (or the base app used by it) is open source (see: VSCodium). It has a similar relationship to Chrome and its base Chromium, where assets and tweaks are added to brand the product. You may have been trying to say “a great open source, VSCode alternative” and I misunderstood. Just commenting to remove ambiguity.
I’m on the Neovim train and I’m not getting off at this junction.
But more high quality choices is a good thing.
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I had multiple failed starts with (n)vim, always getting frustrated way before I had a usable setup, until I just used NvChad. It’s basically a preconfigured version, with all the plugins, keybinds,… you could probably want.
It gave me something usable right out of the box. I continued tinkering with it for almost two years before moving on to my completely custom configuration.
IMO the people that say you should start with bare (n)vim in order to learn everything from the ground up are delusional. There’s no reason you can’t learn all that stuff after you’ve actually experienced how nice the entire thing can be.
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Yeah, getting LSP + Linter + Formatter for basically any language set up is very straightforward with NvChad.
Debuggers/testing framework can be a little more work, but if that’s not required for you, all the better :D
I bet there’s also plugins available that help with integrating Unity and nvim (I know there are for Godot).
Good luck, and have fun with this rabbithole 😄
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Start by running vim and typing
:vimtutor. You might have to install the vimtutor package. Its a good way to learn. Once you’re through the vimtutor tutorial you should be good to go, you’ll get better over time. I second recommending neovim over original vim. The command isnvimto start once installed.Try LazyVim
A couple of months ago I wrote up some instructions for someone that was trying to make the switch to neovim. They reported back that it was helpful.
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Zed is dead.
Am not!
But… Marcellus Wallace went full medieval on your ass?
That was all just good fun
So pulsar for the win
Dunno, never been a fan of Atom.
I use and keep kicking my work colleagues with the fact pulsar seems much better at being an IDE
built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer
I don’t want GPU-accelerated rendering, I want a renderer that has a solid 5 second lag, to make it look to anyone around like I type faster than 20 wpm.
Every time I try a vim alternative, I get frustrated and just end up back with vim.
