And did they implement debugger support?

When I need a barebones editor I reach for Sublime which doesn't market themselves as something else.

As for Zed taking off, I see a lot of vocals in some niche communities but they barely register, if at all, in large annual surveys.

They range from old laptops to a Ryzen 7 9800X3D workstation.

Just yesterday a friend's father needed help setting up their second-hand old laptop with an old i5 processor. I slapped KDE and there was no lag to be seen.

Bonus point that Windows and some Linux distros have sane, intuitive window management. Whereas with macOS I keep seeing someone suggesting some arcane combination of steps to do some basic things with replies to the effect of "OMG thank you so much, this needs to be known by more people!!!"

And VSCode as been improving since inception, hence why it ate a large pie of the market.

but webgl + web workers is good enough these days.

I can't share code sorry, the project got big and I have commercial plans.

But you can tell Gemini 3.1, Opus 4.6 or GPT 5.4 High to generate a demo and they do a decent job most of the times.

that's how I got started, seeing how it was possible to have good game performance with multi threaded workloads on a browser.

https://monogame.net

I personally use it's tooling part which is screamingly fast.

I think there is a valid insight here which many already know: LLMs are much more reliable at creating scripts and automation to do certain tasks than doing these tasks themselves.

For example if I provide an LLM my database schema and tell it to scan for redundant indexes and point out wrong naming conventions, it might do a passable but incomplete job.

But if I tell the LLM to code a python or nodejs script to do the same, I get significantly better results. And it's often faster too to generate and run the script than to let LLMs process large SQL files.

No tooling, no animation, no hidden features, no explanation of how things work upon clicking them.

But I'm glad to be proven wrong if you know a static analysis tool I can point to the repo and come up with comparable result.

Which is fair but just be honest about it.

/r/programming was already unappealing because they tend to be late to surface interesting content in comparison to HN.

Their JSON even does cross-platform SIMD and their Kestrel stack was top 10/20 on techempower benchmarks for a while without the ugly hacks other frameworks/libs use to get there.

stdlib is the science of good enough and sometimes it's far above good enough.

Libraries also don't get it right the first time so they increment minor and major versions.

Then why is it not okay for built-in standard libraries to version their functionality also? Just like Go did with JSON?

The benefits are worth it judging by how ubiquitous Go, Java and .NET are.

I'd rather leverage billions of support paid by the likes of Google, Oracle and Microsoft to build libraries for me than some random low bus factor person, prone to be hacked at anytime due to bad security practices.

Setting up a large JavaScript or Rust project is like giving 300 random people on the internet permission to execute code on my machine. Unless I audit every library update (spoiler: no one does it because it's expensive).

But realistically this will bring you so much bitterness that, even if the money is good, you might want to search for your next client or a "normal" dev job while working for this client.