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  • Ryan Brueryanabx@mastodon.social
    Oct 29, 2025, 6:25 PM

    A summary of my likes and gripes with code editors I’ve tried (1/2):

    VSCode: Best UX, but owned by Microsoft, and proprietary (code-oss doesn’t have access to everything). Also copilot shoved down my throat and telemetry and copilot are bundled in the oss version as well. CLA required to contribute.

    Zed: Fine, but not immune to license changes as zed industries owns all the code in the repo (CLA required to contribute). Also big on AI and UI still feels a little clunky.

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  • Ryan Brueryanabx@mastodon.social
    Oct 29, 2025, 6:27 PM

    (2/2)
    Helix: Best collaborative project (not owned by one group, and immune to license changes (no CLA)), but I can’t get in the mindset of modal editing. Feels easy to contribute to though, and that matters a lot to me.

    Kate: KDE FTW, but also LSP support is just ok, and I’ve ran into many hiccups with my expected workflow.

    Lapce: Not immune to license changes (Apache-2.0), but no CLA, so that’s nice. Looks like vscode, but has a long way to go to be actually stable.

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  • Ryan Brueryanabx@mastodon.social
    Oct 29, 2025, 6:28 PM

    With all that in mind, if anyone has any other editors I should try out, I’m all ears 😌

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  • Ryan Brueryanabx@mastodon.social
    Oct 29, 2025, 7:23 PM

    Related to Zed owning all the code in the repo, the EULA for the editor is pretty crazy for an open source project. Read: term-limited license, cannot decompile, disassemble or attempt to learn the source code underlying the editor, Zed making "certain versions" of the Editor available at the zed github. It feels just as bad as VSCode with this kind of crap.

    It really feels like they're trying to be open source only as long as it's convenient for them.

    2. TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE EDITOR 2.1. License Grant Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Zed hereby grants to You, and You hereby accept from Zed, a term-limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable license to make use of the Editor for Your internal use only, and subject to the use limitations in Section 2.2. 2.2. License Limitations You agree that You shall not: (a) exceed the scope of the licenses granted in Section 2.1; (b) make copies of the Editor; (c) distribute, sublicense, assign, delegate, rent, lease, sell, time-share or otherwise transfer the benefits of, use under, or rights to, the license granted in Section 2.1; (d) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to learn the source code, structure or algorithms underlying the Editor, except to the extent required to be permitted under applicable law; (e) modify, translate or create derivative works of the Editor; or (f) remove any copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary notice that appears on the Editor or copies thereof. 2.3. Open Source Software Zed makes certain versions of the Editor and related software available at the Zed GitHub Repository: https: //github.com/zed-industries/zed (the "Repo"). Your use of such software is subject to the open source software licenses declared in the as bl
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