Hi all, I’ve moved these posts here as it’s a big enough topic in itself 
AstonJ
AstonJ
Who’s behind it?
I’ve been meaning to check it out ever since I learned it had become open source but just haven’t had time.
I see now that it is endorsed by José so that in itself makes me want to give it a go even more 
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dimitarvp
They don’t make it obvious and don’t advertise it but I’ve read a while ago on HN that they are VC-backed. And I believe we all know how that usually ends.
I don’t doubt Zed btw. I checked it out, watched videos before. It’s fantastic, to me it ticks literally all the boxes.
But when I saw it’s VC-backed, I lost faith that it will not be hijacked as a personal data harvesting farm and a vector for pushing undesired AI features on people.
I’d love to be wrong. But I can’t be blamed for having a functioning pattern-matching part of my brain.
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BartOtten
AstonJ
Why not - if he likes something, or thinks something works well with Elixir, or feels something the community would benefit from he’s perfectly entitled to champion it or speak highly of it. DHH did something similar with TextMate. After he publicly endorsed it that helped push a lot of people (me included) to go out and buy it. Things like this help make the decision process easier and if they encourage a wide adoption within a community that can add additional benefit
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sodapopcan
I really enjoy tinkering with Vim and write my own plugins, though I will go long periods of time without touching my config. You do really have to be cognizant of the plugins you are using, though, especially if you have a lot of them. You learn which authors follow a similar style and write in a style that can play nicely together. There are also other clues of potential low-quality plugins, like ones that provide random leader mappings out of the box (that’s a pet peeve of mine).
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AstonJ
I don’t think you can be blamed Dimi - VC backed companies have to overcome the challenge of convincing people their intentions are aligned with the hopes and desires of their users, and so it’s in their own interest to help allay any fears.
Hence if you feel strongly about it why not email them? The dev team is probably made up of people just like yourself, and so will be aware of people feeling cautious / sceptical. It’s possible they have already thought about this or have been thinking about it and your email could be the thing that pushes them to forge ahead with any plans they might have been considering.
As an example, the search engine Ecosia declared that they will never sell or take a profit (I am not sure if they were VC backed, but using purely as an example of what can be done to help put people’s minds at rest).
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BartOtten
BartOtten
To get things back on track: I used Doom Emacs for a while but every time an issue popped up I was lost. So I started from scratch and build my own config.
Pre:
- I know know what package does what
- If it’s broken I can be sure I did make a breaking change
- Learned a lot about Emacs
- Learned a lot about Emacs packages
Con:
- Takes some time
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