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I would love to see collab servers take the same path as LSPs in being standarized and integrated across various editors and IDEs. I would love to work more closely with my VSCode peers, for example. Of course some features may be outside the standard and only supported with likewise editors, e.g. voice chat perhaps, but having shared cursors and a text chat would be a good start.

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This is what I'd like to see as well. These collaboration tools are really good, but I barely use them because they always assume that you and your team are using the same editor. Most of the time that's just not the case, so I've used them a handful of times but beyond that there's little opportunity.

It's probably not an issue the Zed team will experience as they're all naturally using their own editor. Hopefully it's on their radar though.

> because they always assume that you and your team are using the same editor.

Network effects are probably a strength for a company, not a drawback (which it is for the user of course). Even VSCode has some notion of network effects, such as their proprietary extension store.

We actually had it that way 20 years ago. SubEthaEdit could work with Coda 2 and TextMate

And there were an Emacs minor mode and a Vim plugin too that did this too, both for the SubEthaEdit protocol and for the one of the Gobby editor (https://gobby.github.io/).

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