They have some house cleaning to do in their leadership before I am willing to use a product they back.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604

I have never seen so much virtue signaling and moral superiority in a GitHub issue. What a joke.

When you lack ideology everything looks like virtue signaling. It's not moral superiority to take issue with being funded by genocidal investors.

If you want to separate tech from politics, then Sequoia and their bigot associate should not be allowed to express these opinions.

Hope you goatfucker get turned into a pink mist by the next drone strike.

Fuck your prophet.

There is an active genocide going on as we speak. I am sorry if you find boycotting those who support it is virtue signalling and a joke.

There is no indication that zed supports this genocide (accepting money from an entity who might != Supporting)

This is far fetched and that's why it cannot be taken seriously.

Regardless of your political stance, how is taking money from a VC company that has a single person that said a single thing you disagree with “supporting genocide”? And how is uninstalling a text editor going to help literally anyone?

This is 100% pure virtue signaling. This brigading is not helping a single Palestinian. These people just want to feel and show the world that they are “the good guys”, while not actually doing anything or helping anyone. To me, that is absolutely a joke.

I don't see anyone boycotting github, cisco, dropbox, figma and many other companies that where/are founded by sequoia and to this day do fishy stuff and have questionable people on their seats. But sure, let's boycott the open source startup that wants to pay their devs for writing code but let's keep hosting our code on github owned by microsoft which provides Israel with compute power for mass surveillance, that makes total sense.

Wow, some people really don't know what to give a shit about, do they? It must be endlessly exhausting to go around looking for any reason to boycott everything, instead of using these fantastic tools to make things that make the world a better place.

You’re complaining that the people giving enough of a shit to boycott a thing don’t know what to give a shit about?

Point was they didn't have Zed in their portfolio until this announcement.