One thing that has really surprised me about my move to Linux over the last year or so, is that there is not a single usable open source code editor for web development.
I can't stand VScode, because it is a clunky bloated piece of crap, and so many others just copy it for some reason. A few others looked promising, but are just too unstable and lacks development, or even look abandoned.
For the last few months, I have been trying to use ZED, as it seems to get hyped up, but it is absolutely awful, even if you ignore the AI functionality.
It kept messing with my code, despite trying to tell it not too, and it's syntax highlighting is so bad, that three quarters of the page is often just one colour. Then there is all these popups appearing in font of the code I'm trying to write.
I've ended up having to again just go back to Sublime Text, which unfortunately is propriety. But now I can see my code again, ZED has broken it by stripping out some closing tags and adding white space where I don't want it.
That means I have zero interest in Zedless either, which is going to be the upstream code with the AI and telementary stripped out.
I'm not one for usually grumbling about open source apps, as I understand it is people's own time, but I had expected a good open source IDE for Linux to be easy to find.
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