Zen: A distraction-free code editor based on Zed (codeberg.org)

submitted 5 days ago by arendjr@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Zen is simply a fork of Zed for those who are happy to use an IDE free from AI, telemetry, and other cloud-based services. I use it as my daily driver and intend to maintain it so that I can also use it as the base for some non-developer tooling I want to create.

Only tested on Linux for now, though Zed's support for other platforms should be (mostly?) intact.

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[-] joyjoy@piefed.social 29 points 5 days ago

Good luck with discoverability. You'll be competing with the Zen browser.

[-] arendjr@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago

Heh, the name wasn’t chosen to reach a huge audience anyway. If I get too many users, I might lose my zen over trying to support them 😂

But I’m happy to have a few folks along who don’t mind building their IDE from source.

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