This Week at Zed Industries: #4

I was highly interested in Zed and joined the wait list for Alpha/Beta over a year ago. With that said, I've been using Linux as my only OS for 15 years. I was highly disappointed when the beta was released it was MacOS only.

Original documentation/hype around it tried to make it seem like it would be a cross-platform competitor to VSCode and a replacement to Atom from the start. Recently they even locked the platform support GitHub issue for Linux with the below comment.

> Cross platform support is still very much on our radar and we’re dedicated to support both Windows and Linux in the future. As we've previously stated, we aren't taking feedback on the roadmap for platform support and as such we've decided to lock this issue. Any update regarding this will be noted on our website.

No open roadmap, no firm platform support commitments, and a closed development stance from the get go, make this a non starter for me.

At this point it wouldn't surprise me if they plan on staying MacOS only and to start charging.

From their website:

> We’re Zed Industries, a small and passionate team on a mission to build the world’s best text editor—for you, and for your team.

What's funny, is my team of 30 people is 70% Linux 25% Windows with the remaining 5% being MacOS users who are managers who don't touch code in spend their time in Jira/ServiceNow.

I recently moved from VSCode/Neovim back to Jetbrains/Neovim and at this point I think I'm done switching.