Mastodawn

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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Ryan Brue

Related to Zed owning all the code in the repo, the EULA for the editor is pretty crazy for an open source project. Read: term-limited license, cannot decompile, disassemble or attempt to learn the source code underlying the editor, Zed making "certain versions" of the Editor available at the zed github. It feels just as bad as VSCode with this kind of crap.

It really feels like they're trying to be open source only as long as it's convenient for them.