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stephc_int13today at 6:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

Zed seems to be already suffering from heavy technical debt. From my perspective, as a game dev, their stack is a lot heavier than it should be.


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steve_adams_86today at 8:34 PM

What is the debt? As a user, Zed feels more like the only IDE that isn't weighed down with debt. It's incredibly fast, responsive, stable, and it's iterated on very quickly.

verdvermtoday at 6:45 PM

That happens when you don't talk to enough users, build the wrong things, and then iterate like a good startup. It compounds

Building a chat platform in an IDE with CRDTs...? That screams we are more interested in the solutions than the problems, and that they didn't appreciate network effect before attempting this

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