On: Zed is our office

[bitbasher]

Maybe I'm old, jaded, stubborn and paranoid, but something about a coding editor that is controlled by a company is off-putting to me. It's even more off-putting when you add Zoom, Slack and everything else into said editor.

[fergie → bitbasher]

"Collaboration as it stands today is considered alpha, and for the time being, is free for all to use!"

This doesn't fill me with confidence.

[aduffy → bitbasher]

…you’re free to use other editors? People like Zed. They like IntelliJ. They like VSCode. If you have an aesthetic preference against all professionally maintained IDEs, I think you’re in the minority.

[myaccountonhn → aduffy]

The issue is with social features you might be forced to use it, like Slack instead of Email. I've already had cases where I've been forced to use VSCode to collaborate at work.

I personally worry it's not interoperable enough.

[bitbasher → aduffy]

...doesn't mean the majority is right :)

[jiehong → bitbasher]

That reminds me of a French saying that seems fitting:

C'est pas parce qu'ils sont nombreux à avoir tort qu'ils ont raison!

[ergocoder → bitbasher]

It's a personal tool. You're not wrong. Anybody isn't wrong either.

[cipehr → bitbasher]

...doesn't mean there is a right or wrong either :)

[fallat → cipehr]

...but it does mean there is a corporate controlled program that can back stab you at any moment!

[jabbywocker → fallat]

Same thing could happen with non corporate open source

[fallat → jabbywocker]

Uh no? You have to pull in the change and recompile

[adastra22 → bitbasher]

AFAIK it’s all open source. If they go off the rails we could fork it.

[arbitrandomuser → adastra22]

while technically possible with massive projects like these its not as simple to simply fork it, because of the man hours involved . its better to keep in the product stands enshitification while one uses it or just use something else.