That's the point lol

I have massive respect for the guy. He did so much for the open source community. But for some reason everything he says is interpreted as inarguable truth by most tech guys.

For example his opinions on AI are pure trash and bootlickery. Which is fine anyone can think anything. We just have to think for ourselves a little.

I just tried out Zed and the way it does extensions and services is so awful from both a security and configurability standpoint I ended up immediately switching back to Helix. At least Gram is an option if you want one that's GUI-first and it doesn't automatically download random shit.

I thought zed was just a slop focused Code fork like Cursor?

If you do not want the AI, gram editor is a fork that works well

Well yes obviously; Nano is perfection but is normally left out to give the other text editors a chance.

Give micro a shot

Also checkout Gram on Codeberg, it's Zed with all the AI trash and telemetry removed.

Right now I use Helix and I'm trying to decide whether to switch to Zed. Because it almost looks like a better editor at this point, except its configuration is not as declarative as I'd like and its AI service uses a bunch of closed providers.

Do they collect data though? This is important. If not I might give it a shot.

And also when you don't use AI, can you disable all AI UI features.

Unrelated, but I absolutely adore your pfp.

The intention of C++ was to be C's replacement by adding objects into the programming language while also maintaining the fast compilation and runtime that came with C. In the end it resulted in longer compilation and runtime times (from the millisecond scale to seconds scale), which made it generally unappealing for embedded systems.

On a production code standpoint, if were comparing it to something like python, it is debatable, but there's just a large learning curve associated with the language that could otherwise be avoided with a different OOP language. By trying to accomplish everything, it fails to implement everything well to compete with other languages.

It's painful to learn and set up. Looking at other people's code is horrifying. I looked at a portion of Godot code and the amount of headers defined is actually retarded. A lot of the c++ function names are a remnant of not well thought out ideas. It's also normal to have thousands of lines of code for a small portion of a small project?? The only way I see it being used is through vibe coding. You can't tell me it's easier to look at someone's C++ than their Python project.

Don't most people who use it try to avoid like 90% of the core language features

Yeah bloated privacy nightmares.