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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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
Oh no…is microsoft beginning to be dicks again around all this? MIT guys! Remember…even through it goes against your actual DNA.
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Michael Pfister
@pfista
Yeah it's not fully MIT licensed. They just launched their own vs code agentic editor thing to compete
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