Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux, because they had designed their custom UI toolkit around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays which aren't nearly as common in Windows and Linux land, leading to blurry fonts on LoDPI monitors.
I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files.
That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text.
The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.
Size on disk is about 64x less relevant than size in RAM for me. To give Zed some credit in this area, it's statically linked and the Linux binary is half the size as the Windows one.
> winget search zed
Name Id Version Match Source
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Zed Preview ZedIndustries.Zed 0.208.4-pre Moniker: zed winget
Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux, because they had designed their custom UI toolkit around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays which aren't nearly as common in Windows and Linux land, leading to blurry fonts on LoDPI monitors.
No lol
I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files.
That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text.
The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.
The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272
It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on.
I'm really liking it thus far!
Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.
Size on disk is about 64x less relevant than size in RAM for me. To give Zed some credit in this area, it's statically linked and the Linux binary is half the size as the Windows one.
What could they be statically linking to have a 400MB executable?
> Zed isn't an Electron app; we integrate directly with the underlying platform for maximal control.
Sounds great. Looking forward to doing a simple test run with Astro SSG
Is it on winget?
Soon https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728