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Comment by starkparker | Hacker News Reader

Closed-source editor built on a closed-source framework, telemetry built-in with no documented opt-out, hardcoded language servers, macOS only.

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The moment that you open Zed for the first time, you see a welcome screen that offers telemetry opt-out.

The editor will be open-source and cross-platform, but it takes time to build things.

You can, and should, build things in public.

EDIT: I just don’t trust promises for things to be open source. Notch said Minecraft would be open source, and look where that went. A promise let’s you skip out on releasing the code if it turns out to be a convenient or profitable options.

It should be opt-in

I completely agree and think it should be legally enforced but I also recognize that consensus has not yet developed in business culture, so I recognize I'm not going to have as much persuasive firepower as I'd like to make this argument. VSC is also opt-out and doesn't ask you.

I'm working on an code editor with a similar philosophy (or at least I'm trying to achieve similar goals) but it's completely open-source (MIT licence). It's called ecode and can be found here: https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode . It's also GPU accelerated, native code (no electron), has LSP integration and has many similar feature set.

I'm looking for collaborators, if someone is interested please message me.

I looked at the repo and I can’t see any code. Is it in a different repo?

Should have read further.

https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode#source-code

https://github.com/SpartanJ/eepp/tree/develop/src/tools/ecod...

It's like they took a look at everything that made Atom and VS Code so popular, and decided to do the exact opposite.

Actually, no, Microsoft also likes to have closed source language servers or plugins like Pylance and part of the C# stuff.

Wow really not what I would have expected - I feel like associating this with Atom is pretty misleading, given all that.