Logically it doesn’t, but in actual good-faith communication people usually follow Grice’s relevance maxim[1]: the points they mention are relevant to the conversation and the point they’re making. Thus, if neither Linux nor Windows support are planned, and the question is about Windows support, saying that Windows will come after Linux would be (vacuously) true, but the mention of Linux would be irrelevant.
(Notably, communication coming out or through legal counsel cannot be assumed to be good-faith, the premise of the court system being that the best we can achieve is two bad-faith adversaries and a neutral arbiter. But that’s not what we are dealing with here.)
Pedantry aside, I think I remember one of the developers saying they do plan on Linux support at some point in one of the previous Zed threads here. There were also some “small team” and “laser-focused” and “best possible experience” in that comment, but they did say outright they were planning on it. Though plans change, I think that’s the best we could hope for at this point, as I doubt even they themselves know more about their future.
Hey! I'm the mentioned Thorsten. Linux is actively being developed. Here's a PR from 2 days ago that shows file-opening in Linux starting to work: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/7852
And so far Linux support has been a big community effort. I think more community member contributed to Linux support than Zed teammates. Very cool to see.
So: Linux is in the works. Windows will probably happen after that, or if someone in the community wants to emulate what the Linux users are doing and start before that.
I’m trying to get to a point of convergence with 3 different contributors hacking on it right now, and make it a PR. There is also a new “windows-port” channel on Discord. Finally, we are waiting for Zed team to confirm if they are interested to have Windows port in tree at this point.
