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Building the Zed Text Editor (with Nathan Sobo)
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I’ve often wondered how you build a text editor. Like many software projects, it’s a simple idea at the core with an almost infinite scope for features. How do you build a solid foundation to expand on? Which features matter for launch? And how do you hope to satisfy the needs of every programmer, working in every language?
My guest for this episode is Nathan Sobo. He’s tackled this problem once before with the Atom editor, and he’s back older & wiser with Zed - a new editor written completely from scratch in Rust. It has a modern UI, a wide spread of language support, and a completely different way of looking at team collaboration. But with so much ambition, what are Zed’s priorities, and what’s been left for a future version?
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Zed Homepage: https://zed.dev/
Segment Trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment_tree
Ropes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
Rust Executors: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/02_execution/04_executor.html
More about Roc: https://youtu.be/DzhIprQan68
More about TigerBeetle: https://youtu.be/ayG7ltGRRHs
Kris on Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@krisajenkins
Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/
Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
64 episodes
Manage episode 422088385 series 3476072
I’ve often wondered how you build a text editor. Like many software projects, it’s a simple idea at the core with an almost infinite scope for features. How do you build a solid foundation to expand on? Which features matter for launch? And how do you hope to satisfy the needs of every programmer, working in every language?
My guest for this episode is Nathan Sobo. He’s tackled this problem once before with the Atom editor, and he’s back older & wiser with Zed - a new editor written completely from scratch in Rust. It has a modern UI, a wide spread of language support, and a completely different way of looking at team collaboration. But with so much ambition, what are Zed’s priorities, and what’s been left for a future version?
--
Zed Homepage: https://zed.dev/
Segment Trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segment_tree
Ropes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
Rust Executors: https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/02_execution/04_executor.html
More about Roc: https://youtu.be/DzhIprQan68
More about TigerBeetle: https://youtu.be/ayG7ltGRRHs
Kris on Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@krisajenkins
Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/
Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkins
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