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keb_ commented on Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built   nytimes.com/2025/08/22/cl... · Posted by u/xnx
keb_ · 13 hours ago
Good. The humans-cause-climate-change myth needs to finally be put to rest. It's clear it is being perpetuated solely for the profit of "renewable" energy companies, a select few.
keb_ commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
mdaniel · a day ago
I know, both proprietary and enterprise, right? https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/20... (I would also link to the Apache 2 copy of PyCharm but it wouldn't matter to folks who just enjoy shitting on professional tools)
keb_ · a day ago
That's the community edition. Cute and snarky comment, though.
keb_ commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
gf000 · a day ago
When did you last touch java, before 2000?

Local environments are not tied to IDEs at all, but you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't use a decent IDE irrespective of language - they are a huge productivity boost.

And are you stuck in the XML times or what? Spring Boot is insanely productive - just as a fact of matter, Go is significantly more verbose than Java, with all the unnecessary if errs.

keb_ · a day ago
> When did you last touch java, before 2000?

August 22, 2025.

Local environments are not literally tied to IDEs, but they effectively are in any non-trivially sized project. And the reason is because most Java shops really do believe "you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't use a decent IDE irrespective of language." I get along fine with a text editor + CLI tools in Deno, Lua, and Zig. Only when I enter Java world do the wisest of the wise say "yeah there is a CLI, but I don't really know it. I recommend you download IntelliJ and run these configs instead."

Yes Spring Boot is productive. So is Ruby on Rails or Laravel.

keb_ commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
theshrike79 · a day ago
Have you seen Java people write Python? Same vibe :)
keb_ · a day ago
Reminded me of this classic talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
keb_ commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
gf000 · a day ago
For web frontend: js

For ML/data: python

For backend/general purpose software: Java

The only silver bullet we know of is building on existing libraries. These are also non-accidentally the top 3 most popular languages according to any ranking worthy of consideration.

keb_ · a day ago
Absolutely no on Java. Even if the core language has seen improvements over the years, choosing Java almost certainly means that your team will be tied to using proprietary / enterprise tools (IntelliJ) because every time you work at a Java/C# shop, local environments are tied to IDE configurations. Not to mention Spring -- now every code review will render "Large diffs are not rendered by default." in Github because a simple module in Java must be a new class at least >500 LOC long.
keb_ commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
ben-schaaf · 2 days ago
> not OP but I am not thrilled by "x months/years of updates" because you pay upfront for updates that you're not really sure that will happen. Will I get bug fixes? Will I get new features or at least significant improvements? Will the two person team work on the other project?

Thanks. I guess I'm just not really seeing how that is any different to what we did before? You'd buy a ST3 license with no knowledge of what improvements would be made to ST3.

keb_ · 2 days ago
It's been a while since I used my ST3 license, but I remember my license affording me all updates for ST3. Maybe that model was unrealistic for ST4, but as others have echoed in this thread, major feature updates for ST4 are not common, so if you bought a license in May of 2022, your access to new features would have expired right before the new updates of the May 2025 release.

Personally, I'm OK with using an old build so I don't mind that much about the limitation. Although if my 3 years elapses right before ST4 introduces first-class LSP support and an official Debugger, I may be very peeved. :)

keb_ commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
dewey · 2 days ago
They didn’t “solve” it, otherwise it would be a thriving editor that everyone would be using.

In reality 70% of the people I see are using Cursor (Subscription), Vscode (Free) or some JetBrains products (Subscription). I only know of some people including myself that have ST for opening large files, where performance matters.

keb_ · 2 days ago
I mean that they solved the funding model that pays the bills of their employees, not that they solved becoming the most widely used text editor in the world.
keb_ commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
dpkirchner · 3 days ago
It does, or did, use dark patterns when showing upgrade notices -- prompting you to upgrade to a version that you don't own yet, without telling you you don't own it, leaving you with an unlicensed version. I was happy to use 3 but that felt really off.
keb_ · 3 days ago
Yeah, I wasn't happy about that. Nor was I happy about the new 3-year-of-updates license model that ST4 adopted.

Although at least to me, Sublime Text 4 feels like a "finished" product.

keb_ commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
aranelsurion · 3 days ago
There was a time around ST2 when it felt like everyone was using it and it could've become The Editor, then something happened and it's been left in the dust. I wasn't even aware but apparently even fourth version of ST was released, and that was in 2021.

I lost track of what happened there (moved to Vim back then), was it VSCode that killed it?

keb_ · 3 days ago
Yeah, as others already mentioned, I think they sat on their laurels for a bit too long and let VSCode overtake it.

For what it's worth, I went from ST3 -> VSCode -> ST4, and have been happy since. I've found that I prefer my text editor with minimal extensions, and with Sublime Text's LSP Plugin, I'm pretty content. The performance and customizable UI make it more worth it to me than VSCode.

keb_ commented on Sequoia backs Zed   zed.dev/blog/sequoia-back... · Posted by u/vquemener
mccoyb · 3 days ago
I love the spirit of Zed. From the principles to the low-level implementation details, it all screams "good taste". It's immensely interesting as an object of study (the code is great, from GPUI all the way up).

Having said that, I don't think an editor should be VC backed. It's the obvious pragmatic choice to get a team together to support a thing, but I'm concerned by it.

keb_ · 3 days ago
Sublime Text solved this 17 years ago with the 40-year-old shareware model.

It's also faster than Zed, works on Linux/Win/MacOS, and is decently customizable.

u/keb_

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