In the early days, Zed's in-editor collaboration features were marketed as a key differentiator. I wonder how many Zed users have used these features on a sustained basis.
Honestly I don't see the value in multiplayer on its own. Where it becomes interesting is when a tool like Zed makes it easy for extension authors to do multiplayer. Let everyone else build the experiences, and let the tool provide the APIs.
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Zed also has interesting collaboration features -- editing + voice: https://zed.dev/docs/collaboration
In the early days, Zed's in-editor collaboration features were marketed as a key differentiator. I wonder how many Zed users have used these features on a sustained basis.
Zed's collaboration tech is amazing, but coding just seems to be less collaborative than e.g. meeting notes.
It's pretty awesome that they were able to use the crdt for agent collab. I've been thinking about something similar for my project.
Honestly I don't see the value in multiplayer on its own. Where it becomes interesting is when a tool like Zed makes it easy for extension authors to do multiplayer. Let everyone else build the experiences, and let the tool provide the APIs.