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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Interview)
Mar 15, 2023 · 1 hr 27 min · 84.4 MB
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This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.
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Featuring:
- Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- zed.dev
- Zed raises $10M for a code editor built for collaboration
- The Changelog #241: The Story of Atom with Nathan Sobo
- GitHub officially says farewell to Atom
- Founders Talk #7: Henk Rogers / The Tetris Company
- Prioritize enablers and blockers - linear.app
- Zed’s language support
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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zed.devGitHub officially says farewell to Atom
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linear.appZed’s language support
github.comPRs welcome!
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 0:52Start the show!
- 2:38Tetris!
- 8:20What's the mission of Zed?
- 15:39When GitHub was acquired
- 22:49Performance, extensibility, collaboration
- 29:11Sponsor: Postman
- 31:59GPUI invented here
- 38:30Zed is going big
- 48:35Paging Chris Wanstrath!
- 48:53Engineered for performance
- 52:03Are you hiring?
- 57:49What's the business model?
- 1:02:40What makes a dev change?
- 1:05:50This multi-player world
- 1:14:21What can devs expect?
- 1:18:06Fast tooling is fast
- 1:25:02Closing out the show
- 1:25:49Outro