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+title: From General Zod to Superman - Crafting Stories in Zed Editor
+url: crafting-stories-in-zed-editor.html
+date: 2023-05-22T12:00:00+02:00
+type: post
+draft: false
+---
+
+Pretentious title! Good start! I have nothing to add to this discussion. I just
+like this editor and wanted to write something here that will remind me to use
+it again in a while when/if it becomes available for Linux.
+
+**TLDR:** I think this code editor is very cool and has a massive potential.  I
+hope they don’t mess up with adding a plugin ecosystem to it!
+
+Out of morbid curiosity, I started using the [Zed editor](https://zed.dev/) on
+my Mac. Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor developed by the
+creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. Written in Rust so it has to be blazingly
+fast! 😊 It's a joke, calm down.
+
+Over the past year, I have switched between [Helix
+editor](https://helix-editor.com/) and [VS
+Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/), but for the last couple of months, I have
+been using Helix exclusively.
+
+I've been genuinely impressed by Zed. When you open a file, it automatically
+detects its type and downloads the corresponding [LSP (language
+server)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol).  The list of
+supported languages is not extensive, but it's still impressive.  It's a great
+example of how to create a product that stays out of your way.
+
+![Zed editor](/assets/zed/zed-1.png?style=bigimg)
+
+For C development it downloaded [clangd](https://clangd.llvm.org/) and setting
+up missing dependencies in code was rather easy. For this project I use
+[SDL2](https://www.libsdl.org/) for rendering terminal emulator. It’s a hobby
+project, don’t worry about it.
+
+If you are going to give this a try and you are using C, I suggest checking two
+files in the root of your project folder. If you don't have them, create them.
+
+**compile_flags.txt**
+
+```
+-I/opt/homebrew/include
+-I/opt/homebrew/include/SDL2
+```
+
+Easy way of checking what the appropriate includes for a specific library is to
+use `pkg-config` and in my case `pkg-config SDL2 --cflags-only-I`. But this is
+nothing new to C/C++ devs. Just a noter for people who are using Visual Studio.
+
+**.clang-format**
+
+```
+ColumnLimit: 220
+BasedOnStyle: Mozilla
+```
+
+I prefer Mozilla coding style for C so you can set that up.
+
+They really have something special here. Although there is no version available
+for Linux yet, I will stick to Helix. This impressive piece of engineering is,
+above all, an amazing example of craftsmanship.
+
+They have a bunch of amazing integrated functionalities like live desktop
+sharing, code sharing in a live coding session. There is a lot of pretentious
+marketing speak there but the product is still amazing!
+
+For me the speed and the simplicity of the product was the most impressive 
+thing. You get that: it just works feeling. A rare thing in 2023.
+
+![Zed editor](/assets/zed/zed-2.png?style=bigimg)
+
+They also managed to add [Github Copilot](https://github.com/features/copilot)
+in a non obtrusive way. To me, everything feels very intentional and
+specifically selected. It's minimal yet maximally effective.
+
+<video src="https://zed.dev/img/post/copilot/copilot-demo.webm" autoplay loop></video>
+
+It is a perfect balance between VS Code, Jetbrains IDE’s and something like VIM
+or Helix.
+
+I just hope they **DON’T** add plugin support and keep it like it is. They as a
+vendor should add stuff to it with great deliberation and thought. And this way
+the product will stay fast and focused. That’s my two cents.
+
+Amazing job!