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The Gram Editor - ZED fork without AI and other commercial stuff (codeberg.org)
submitted 3 weeks ago by tracyspcy@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/46897859

It is not my project.

I was looking for a lite version of Zed IDE without AI integrations, collab feature, telemetry etc and suddenly found it ^_^

I didn't test it excessively yet, but definitely give a try.

If you already tried it, please share your opinions.

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I’ve kept my eye on this, not due to the AI, but because Zed is a scumbag organization that thinks mandatory opt-out arbitration is okay, because they don’t think their users should have rights. You of course don’t have to sign in but it still indicates they are an evil organization. Alas, I just keep on being super happy with Neovim so I don’t use it.

[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

I switched to helix, but I still sometimes open zed. I tested gram today and it looks promising , so zed is going to the garbage bin.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I tried their editor a few times and found it a bit hard to get used to coming from VS Code. The thing that sank the ship for me honestly was when I found out that they don't support PDF previews in the editor. Given that I use VS Code to also write LaTeX documents, that is an essential feature for me that they seemed very opinionated about not including based on the issues I've seen on their git

[–] 0x0me@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

I am using gram for regular development and it works very well. Do not do any fancy stuff but auto-completion works fine as well as navigating the code base.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I like Zed for the AI features, but it's nice that there's an alternative for people who don't.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve been using this daily since version 1.0.0 was released 2 months ago. Very few complaints.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Give me good ol' Sublime Text.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds sublime

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I tried Zed some time ago and it simply wasn't better than nvim.

[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have been using this for a little while. It works well. Installing extensions was slightly more difficult than regular zed. Otherwise it’s been a rather pleasant experience.