nathansobo

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   by nathansobo 11mo ago

   GPUI has a mature scheduling story, letting you “block” the main thread on spawned tasks with async/await. It also comes with a deterministic random test scheduler for driving out timing bugs.
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   by nathansobo 3y ago

   Wow Brian, nice to hear from you. Thanks very much for your words! I remember you setting a new standard of speed for me when we worked together!
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   by nathansobo 4y ago

   Hey, we're actively working to get in touch with a new lawyer to help us do a better job with this. I agree this isn't cool. I was rushed to get the launch out and didn't review the terms carefully enough. We will try to do b
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   Show HN: Zed – A high-performance, multiplayer code editor. Now in public beta(zed.dev)

   43 points by nathansobo 4y ago|3 comments
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   by nathansobo 4y ago

   The former Atom team and some new friends are building a new editor over at https://zed.dev . We're using our own Rust-based UI framework instead of Electron so it's really fast, and real-time collaboration is baked int
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   by nathansobo 4y ago

   Hey, thanks for the heads up. I screwed it up once and duplicated it through everything. Going to fix it. He was too important to insult by misspelling his name.
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   by nathansobo 4y ago

   We’ve gone to great lengths to abstract out the platform dependencies. Adding a platform right now doesn’t teach us enough for it to be worth it just yet, but we’re seriously planning for it.
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   by nathansobo 4y ago

   I have always found CRDTs a lot easier to wrap my brain around. Agreed with Joseph that optimizing them is non-trivial. In Teletype for Atom, we indexed fragments in splay trees, and each text fragment was actually a member of two splay tre
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   by nathansobo 4y ago

   I've been interested in them since the early days of Atom, but it's just taken a while for me to develop as an engineer and build a system around the theory that puts them to practical use.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We honestly don’t solve it yet, but haven’t found it that big of an issue in practice. Would be curious to see the best resource on it.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Thanks very much!
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We embeded a lot of videos for animated diagrams. I think we need to disable autoplay, at least on mobile.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We're quite happy with them. Why do you find them annoying?
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Definitely a priority.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    "Real real fast"
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We're pure Rust and hopefully faster. But yeah, plenty of competition in the space!
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Our goal is to build something substantially better than VS Code.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We plan to start blogging about this pretty soon.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    This would only be for the web. Right now we're macOS only and target Metal.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We just wanted to be pure Rust and have complete control.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Thanks very much!
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Earlier this year Keith Simmons, the author of Neovide ( https://github.com/neovide/neovide ), joined our team. He's been working on Vim bindings and paying a lot of attention to getting it right. As you probably kn
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    When we started on Zed the Rust UI framework space was much younger. In absence of a mature solution that met our exact needs, the simplest path for us was to build it ourselves. We're too far into things now to change at this point.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Here's a demo from a talk a give not too long ago: https://youtu.be/wXT73bBr83s?list=PL3TSF5whlprXqwYNIM0X8mBzu...
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We do have plans. Stay tuned!
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Very much so. As the first Electron app we were so excited about people being able to do anything they imagined. It was cool but ended up really constraining us. This time we really want to drive our API based on the most important things p
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We have graphics, but I could see a mode where you `scp` a headless moon lander version of Zed up to a remote server to do remote development. VS Code has a feature like this but I hadn't used it much before switching to Zed full-time.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    We plan to compile to WebAssembly that writes pixels to a WebGL canvas.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Fabulous point. Always good to have solid contingency plans.
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    by nathansobo 4y ago

    Sure, cross-platform UI that's on the metal is a more accurate description.