Michael Pfister
@pfista
Zed is starting to come online. They are shipping good stuff. - AI Tab completion, powered by Zeta (their in house language model) - Native git support - Tasks - think templates to run terminal commands I'm starting to see the primitives comes together. Competing with VS Code is not easy- and they're essentially rebuilding it all from scratch, outside the stranglehold of Microsoft. And, they're building in public, using zed to build zed. They will soon be shipping: - Agentic Editing https://zed.dev/ai/agent?x=50 - Support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Continued improvements to Zeta - Debugger
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
Why does this matter, and how could Zed win the AI editor wars? VS Code forks like Cursor and Windsurf may now be required to build their own language extensions, because microsoft is enforcing licensing restriction https://x.com/sqs/status/1908386576939573480
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
As with most "open source" businesses, there's usually some aspect of the app that isn't truly open source. In Microsoft and VSCode's case, they have been shifting defaults to Microsoft owned and restricted extensions for language servers like C/C++ and Python And VSCode forks can't use Microsoft's VSCode Extension marketplace either. Instead they rely on an alternative called OpenVSX which still might have licensed extensions and doesn't offer as many as the official extensions marketplace. https://forum.cursor.com/t/compliance-how-does-cursor-use-vscode-marketplace-extensions/38535/2?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
Oh noโฆis microsoft beginning to be dicks again around all this? MIT guys! Rememberโฆeven through it goes against your actual DNA.
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