I hadn't realized Zed was built from the ground up to support collaborative programming. I liked it already, and I like it even more now.
phito•29m ago
I was very surprised to find a "forum" integrated in Zed when I first opened it. But to be honest, it is not something I ever felt the need for and overall I don't like having this in my text editor. So far it never got in my way and that's a good thing, I hope it stays that way :)
siva7•28m ago
This looks more like a collab note-taking app. Don't know about code since i don't code anymore inside an editor but for collab things who knows
wateralien•28m ago
Zed is lovely and I hope it becomes super successful but this kind of mass collaboration might be ok for meeting minutes... maybe. But thinking of it for coding it gives me shingles. Code by mass live committee. Yikes.
drcongo•22m ago
It's just pair programming when you're doing it on code so if you can bear pair programming you'll be fine. Personally, I hate it.
wateralien•11m ago
Actively programming in pairs (or more) is also not for me. Reviewing work async is great IMO though.
electroly•9m ago
Pair programming usually has a single "driver" on the keyboard to keep things controllable. Here, everybody is driving: "dozens of cursors are concurrently editing the same file in real-time."
zamalek•25m ago
I have been trying to figure out how this works in concert with Git (or SCM in general). Is one of the developers in the session merely responsible for it?
giancarlostoro•17m ago
I mean, you have the same "problem" when peer coding in person. Whoever is officially working on the fix will commit it. I've helped devs get around a hump for ages, you don't get "credit" for all the work you do. It's why I hate most ticketing systems (when management starts to ask why your tasks fell behind), they don't let you correctly track multiple people when they work together.
Octoth0rpe•5m ago
I _really really_ want to try this feature, but only if I can selfhost the collaboration server. If there is any way to do this, it's not obvious. Given that as I understand it, lots of project details will pass through Zed's servers, I can't imagine any enterprises would knowingly allow this without some kind of SLA with Zed.
bguthrie•30m ago