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Re:Zed on Linux Is Here by tankenmate on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:22AM (#40934892)
This is giving me flashbacks to editors of yore; EMACS, Eight MB And Continually Swapping. I remember reading almost the exact same comments on Usenet from the 80s and 90s.
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Re:Zed on Linux Is Here by alfiedotwtf on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:17AM (#40936442)
Flashbacks? It’s 2024 and Emacs is still single threaded
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Re:Zed on Linux Is Here by mananaysiempre on Thursday July 11, 2024 @10:43AM (#40937338)
It’s also 2024 and you still can’t share JavaScript objects between threads. Do not underestimate the horror that is tracing garbage collection with multiple mutator threads. (Here[1] is Guile maintainer Andy Wingo singing praises to the new, simpler way to do it... in 2023, referring to a research paper from 2008 that he came across a year before that post.)

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/02/07/whippet-towards-a-n...

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Re:Zed on Linux Is Here by miah_ on Thursday July 11, 2024 @10:23AM (#40937140)
And it still performs better than vscode.
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Re:Zed on Linux Is Here by mananaysiempre on Thursday July 11, 2024 @11:01AM (#40937513)
That’s not entirely surprising. Emacs’s UI is a character-cell matrix with some toolkit-provided fluff around it; VSCode’s is an arbitrary piece of graphics. One of these is harder than the other. (Not as harder as VSCode is slower, but still a hell of a lot.)
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Re:Zed on Linux Is Here by alfiedotwtf on Thursday July 11, 2024 @11:20AM (#40937680)
I use Emacs in textmode. It's super fast! But I've also never found VS Code slow, and that's with viewing multiple large log files at the same time
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