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Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed (codeberg.org)
submitted 3 months ago by arendjr@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Zen is simply a fork of Zed for those who are happy to use an IDE free from AI, telemetry, and other cloud-based services. I use it as my daily driver and intend to maintain it so that I can also use it as the base for some non-developer tooling I want to create.

Only tested on Linux for now, though Zed's support for other platforms should be (mostly?) intact.

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[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

What’s wrong with zedless or gram that you did this?

[-] arendjr@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

Nothing wrong with them! But since I want to build another tool on top of it (for fiction/novel outlining and writing) I figured this was a good exercise to become familiar with the codebase. And since I still do some Rust development, having control over both my IDE and my writing software seemed an added benefit :)

[-] staircase@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I tried gram, and it was rife with bugs. Couldn't recall the specifics. Interested in zedless, however.

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Hasn't had an update in nearly a year, according to their github. Bit disappointing.

[-] 0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because it's on Codeberg now. Last updated 22 hours ago. Version 2.2.0 was released 3 days ago.

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

[-] Matty_r@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Awesome! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll give it a go tomorrow for sure.

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