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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by Jtsummers on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:25PM (#44965389)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor)

More like a spiritual successor to Atom, at least per the people that started it who came from that project.

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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by lexoj on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:09PM (#44965889)
Its funny how the same guy who wrote (borderline) the slowest editor, went ahead and built the fastest. Practice makes perfect I guess :)
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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by ricardobeat on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:47PM (#44967311)
Atom was based on web tech, like VSCode, while Zed is a native app with a custom GUI framework, just like Sublime Text. And just like ST, the standard option now for a fast barebones text editor. That's what I mean by 'spiritual successor'.
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Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first by eviks on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:28AM (#44974014)
Isn't extensible plugin API part of ST spirit? (so zed can't be a successor until its spirit incorporates a similar one)
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