Zed Is Now Available on Windows

https://www.gpui.rs/

That said, storage is cheap, it's not a mentality but a simple statement of fact. You think zed balloons their file sizes because the developers are lazy. It's not true. It's because the users have become lazy. No one wants to spend time downloading the correct libraries to use software anymore. We've seen a rise in binary sizes in most software because of a rise in static linking, which does increase binary size, but makes using and testing the actual software much less of a pain. Not to mention the benefits in reduced memory overhead.

VSCode and other editors aren't smaller because the developers are somehow better or more clever. They're using dynamic linking to call into libraries on the OS. This linking itself is a small overhead, but overhead none-the-less, and all so they can use electron + javascript, the real culprits which made people switch to neovim + zed in the first place. 400mb is such a cheap price to pay for a piece of software I use on a daily basis.

I'm not here to convince you to use Zed or any editor for that matter. Use what you want. But you're not going to somehow change this trend by dying on this hill, because unless you're working with actual hardware constraints, dynamic linking makes no sense nowadays. There's no such thing as silver bullet in software. Everything is a tradeoff, and the resounding answer has been people are more than happy to trade disk space for lower memory & cpu usage.

> does we run game engine for code??

Zed literally does this; they render their UI using a graphics library just like a video game.

MSTSC is one of the rock-solid tools from Microsoft, and does better than almost everything else available on the market other than some PC over IP technologies specifically highly optimized for this use case. I've been programming with an ancient ThinkPad forever because I'm just remoting into a much more powerful machine.

Low-dpi font rendering also isn’t an issue for me, unless it is so bad as to be illegible (which no modern system is).

We really do perceive things differently.

Human neural feedback loop latency is a range that varies widely depending on the type of loop involved. Reflex loops are fastest, operating in tens of milliseconds, while complex loops involving conscious thought can take hundreds of milliseconds.

Short-latency reflex: 20-30ms. Signal travels through spinal cord, bypassing the brain. E.g. knee-jerk reflex.

Long-latency reflex: 50-100ms. Signal travels to the brainstem and cortex for processing before returning. E.g. Adjusting grip strength when an object begins to slip from your hand.

Simple sensorimotor reaction: 230 - 330ms. Simple stimulus-response pathway involving conscious processing, but minimal decision-making. E.g. pressing a button as soon as light turns on.

Visuomotor control: ~150ms, adaptable with training. Complex, conscious loops involving vision, processing in the cortex, and motor commands. E.g. steering a bike to stay on a path in a video game.

Complex cognitive loops: Brain's processing speed for conscious thought is estimated at 10 bits per second, much slower than the speed of sensory data. High-level thought, decision-making, internal mental feedback. E.g. complex tasks like analyzing a chess board or making a strategic decision.

I know as a matter of fact that bad extensions slow down VSCode significantly.