Ryan BrueOct 29

A summary of my likes and gripes with code editors I’ve tried (1/2):

VSCode: Best UX, but owned by Microsoft, and proprietary (code-oss doesn’t have access to everything). Also copilot shoved down my throat and telemetry and copilot are bundled in the oss version as well. CLA required to contribute.

Zed: Fine, but not immune to license changes as zed industries owns all the code in the repo (CLA required to contribute). Also big on AI and UI still feels a little clunky.

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(2/2)
Helix: Best collaborative project (not owned by one group, and immune to license changes (no CLA)), but I can’t get in the mindset of modal editing. Feels easy to contribute to though, and that matters a lot to me.

Kate: KDE FTW, but also LSP support is just ok, and I’ve ran into many hiccups with my expected workflow.

Lapce: Not immune to license changes (Apache-2.0), but no CLA, so that’s nice. Looks like vscode, but has a long way to go to be actually stable.

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With all that in mind, if anyone has any other editors I should try out, I’m all ears 😌
Show threadJonathan Capps
@ryanabx I'm in a similar limbo trying to find the perfect editor. Zed is closest for me but I really also need the dev containers of VSCode
Oct 29 at 6:37pmWeb