Anders Stenberg

In my search for a replacement for VS Code I'm currently looking at Gram, the Zed fork.
https://gram-editor.com/

It's mostly doing the job pretty well, although it obviously doesn't have the same offering of extensions (for better or worse).

One big issue is that it's somewhat locked to LLDB for debugging C++ & friends, and LLDB is really slow on windows for some reason.

Might still run it more on the Linux box though.

#gram

GRAM

Gram is an open source code editor with built-in support for many popular languages. Gram is an opinionated fork of the Zed code editor.

May 29 at 6:58amWeb
Show threadLR6d ago

@SonnyBonds why not zed?

ah, ai culture wars

Show threadAnders Stenberg6d ago

@lritter I've run Zed for a bit as well. At this point they're mostly identical to me, since the fork hasn't split very much. So same pros and cons go for Zed.

I don't use the AI stuff, but I'm also not heavily opposed to it being there. It's also easy to totally turn off and hide away in Zed. So I might go back to giving that more spins depending on how Gram feels. Right now with them functionally being the same (to me) I just vibe better with gram.

Show threadAnders Stenberg6d ago
@lritter And I mean, VS Code is serving me really well as well so it's hard to find something that's actually better. Just a few things here and there that irk me a bit. Also the main focus on its development right now is on parts I don't really use.