Pulsar (former Atom) is still the best code editor in my opinion. It is easiest and fastest to use, has all the nice productivity boosting plugins and is overall great for all the same reasons the Atom was great. 🚀
See also !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml
Zed https://zed.dev/
That can only run on mac. Hard pass.
They’re working on Linux compatibility. It’s not ready yet but it’s well along the way with about half the necessary tasks completed. Windows will be after that.
It’s open source though and they plan on adding Linux/Windows support in the future
Atom did bring about tree-sitter at least.
From https://zed.dev/blog/we-have-to-start-over
We got to a certain point with Atom. It was 2017 when we’d shipped Teletype and it felt like, okay, it’s no longer our own ignorance holding us back, it really is like the platform holding us back at this point.
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the ironic thing is that we created Electron to create Atom, but I can’t imagine a worse application for Electron than a code editor, I don’t know.