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Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by benbristow on Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:20AM (#39409175)
Doesn't work on Windows or Linux. Remind me when it does.
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by practicalrs on Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:31AM (#39409240)
I asked Thorsten about Windows support today, he said "Zed, you mean? After Linux, I'd say.". So there is some plan :)
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by sapiogram on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:03AM (#39409480)
> So there is some plan :)

How does that follow from the rest of your comment?

Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by mananaysiempre on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:32AM (#39409714)
Logically it doesn’t, but in actual good-faith communication people usually follow Grice’s relevance maxim[1]: the points they mention are relevant to the conversation and the point they’re making. Thus, if neither Linux nor Windows support are planned, and the question is about Windows support, saying that Windows will come after Linux would be (vacuously) true, but the mention of Linux would be irrelevant.

(Notably, communication coming out or through legal counsel cannot be assumed to be good-faith, the premise of the court system being that the best we can achieve is two bad-faith adversaries and a neutral arbiter. But that’s not what we are dealing with here.)

Pedantry aside, I think I remember one of the developers saying they do plan on Linux support at some point in one of the previous Zed threads here. There were also some “small team” and “laser-focused” and “best possible experience” in that comment, but they did say outright they were planning on it. Though plans change, I think that’s the best we could hope for at this point, as I doubt even they themselves know more about their future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle

Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by misternugget on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:51AM (#39409917)
Hey! I'm the mentioned Thorsten. Linux is actively being developed. Here's a PR from 2 days ago that shows file-opening in Linux starting to work: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/7852

And so far Linux support has been a big community effort. I think more community member contributed to Linux support than Zed teammates. Very cool to see.

So: Linux is in the works. Windows will probably happen after that, or if someone in the community wants to emulate what the Linux users are doing and start before that.

Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by kvark on Saturday February 17, 2024 @12:32PM (#39411444)
Windows support is happening locally on individuals machines. We’ll start upstreaming things up.
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by raydev on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:16PM (#39415510)
Where can we track this work so as to not duplicate it?
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by kvark on Sunday February 18, 2024 @02:43PM (#39422378)
I’m trying to get to a point of convergence with 3 different contributors hacking on it right now, and make it a PR. There is also a new “windows-port” channel on Discord. Finally, we are waiting for Zed team to confirm if they are interested to have Windows port in tree at this point.

As a side note, Linux is going pretty strong!

Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by airstrike on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:52AM (#39410550)
What a beautiful comment. We should make it the MOTD for perpetuity.