So, what‘s Zed?
A code editor with a lot of rough edges. If they don't start polishing the turd I doubt the'll make it.
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Scarbutt commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
> It's an absolute delight to use, out of the box, on a desktop or laptop, with no configuration required.
I have been using it since the beginning of WSL 1 with a very terminal heavy set up but it has some issues.
For example WSLg's clipboard sharing is buggy compared to VcXsrv. It doesn't handle pasting into Linux apps without introducing Windows CRs. I opened an issue for this https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/1326 but it hasn't gotten a reply.
Also, systemd is still pretty sketchy. It takes over 2 minutes for systemd services to start and if you close a WSL 2 terminal for just a few minutes systemd will delay a new terminal from opening for quite some time. This basically means disabling systemd to use WSL 2 in your day to day.
Then there's this 6 year old issue with 1,000+ upvotes https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4699 around WSL not reclaiming disk space. It means you need to routinely shut everything down and compress your VM's disk or you'll run out of space.
Beyond that is does work well so I'm happy it exists.
Also, systemd is still pretty sketchy. It takes over 2 minutes for systemd services to start and if you close a WSL 2 terminal for just a few minutes systemd will delay a new terminal from opening for quite some time. This basically means disabling systemd to use WSL 2 in your day to day.
That doesn't sound good. I was planning to set up a Windows/WSL2 box, but this gives me second thoughts. Where can I read more about this?
I moved to Linux Mint from Windows 10 last year. Haven't looked back.
Anytime I need to start up the Windows machine, there are a million things popping up, updating, Windows update notifications, etc... and no I don't have any viruses. Just good ol' first party malware from Microsoft.
That's great but office won't run on linux mint.
Scarbutt commented on We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you) datocms.com/blog/why-we-s... · Posted by u/steffoz
The way I do it in my framework [1]:
1. Wire up a route in your index.server.js file (the main app startup file). That calls to a res.render() function that receives the component you want to render.
2. When that route is hit, send the HTML/CSS/JS to the client and auto-hydrate in the browser (no need for developer to hand-write that), let the client-side do the rest.
Rinse and repeat for moving between routes. No client-side slop, just one easy to understand source of truth on the server.
There's (sadly) been a chase in the JS world to cram everything into the browser but you really don't need to. The above is insanely productive and stable, yet a lot of people I talk to about it poo-poo it (or at best, seem disinterested).
The issue with that approach to hydration is that it causes the browser to freeze.
I couldn’t help but notice that he was working with two extremes, ruby and rust. A nice middle ground could have been nodejs with TS, with the advantage of using a single language throughout the project. While nodejs doesn’t have something like rails, its ecosystem is largely centered around building web applications.
I don’t disagree with you, but I’d suggest that the accounting knowledge is pretty easy to pick up, and getting that under your belt will actually be incredibly valuable
Do you have any tips on where to start?
Scarbutt commented on Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020) gist.github.com/romainl/6... · Posted by u/asicsp
Does that have any advantage over VSCode Remote SSH?
No sync issues, no freezes. Your code editor/tools/coding happens in a single computer.
VScode remote extensions are really good though, the best of any GUI editor. But that BLOB it installs on remotes can take a good chunk of scarce VM RAM.
Scarbutt commented on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative github.com/shell-pool/shp... · Posted by u/ethanpailes
Besides persistence, terminal multiplexing is one of the greats things of tmux. If I'm programming on a remote machine I don't want to open a new ssh connection from each of the five terminals that I need. Seems tedious when I can just create a new window inside tmux. Even locally, I don't want to have 10 terminals opened (or tabs), tmux lets you have multiple terminal windows/panes from a single physical terminal and lets you easily group and switch between them into what they call sessions.
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Scarbutt commented on Neovim decision to use Lua is paying off old.reddit.com/r/neovim/c... · Posted by u/bpierre
As a counterexample, I'm super perplexed at the helix team -- an editor that myself and many others migrated to because we know / like rust -- decided on a lisp for their plugin system. Having recently tried to get into lisp (3 or 4 different highly recommended books / courses)... I really wish they had gone in a different direction here. Tempted to go back to nvim -- the lua config was pretty nice!
Can't please everybody. I don't use Helix but I'll take scheme over lua for this. ;)