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The Zed Debugger Is Here

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502 points SupremumLimit | 5 comments | 19 Jun 25 02:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.491s | source
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eddythompson80 ◴[19 Jun 25 06:24 UTC] No.44315995[source]▶
Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/
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sapiogram ◴[19 Jun 25 09:13 UTC] No.44316826[source]▶
It's so incredibly frustrating. Text rendering is the primary feature of a code editor, but no one on the Zed team seems to use a non-retina screen.

Github issue for context: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

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1. jen20 ◴[19 Jun 25 14:50 UTC] No.44319212[source]▶
> but no one on the Zed team seems to use a non-retina screen

This is not that surprising to me. Surely no-one wants to spend their day looking at the pixels?

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2. haiku2077 ◴[19 Jun 25 14:55 UTC] No.44319254[source]▶
If nice monitors were free, sure. Sadly nice monitors cost money. When I worked office jobs, hidpi displays were rarely available.
3. badsectoracula ◴[19 Jun 25 17:39 UTC] No.44320825[source]▶
I like looking at pixels as long as those pixels look good. Zed's pixels look awful.
4. eddythompson80 ◴[19 Jun 25 22:26 UTC] No.44323102[source]▶
And do what the the few devices with perfectly fine 1080 or 1440p displays? Just throw them away?

My laptop display is fine. My desktop's 1440p is blurry, any external display at the office is blurry. So what? use Zed on my laptop when I'm using the built-in display, then switch editors if I'm switching monitors?

5. colonial ◴[21 Jun 25 05:00 UTC] No.44334651[source]▶
I can't remember the last time I touched a hi-DPI display. They really aren't that common still, even in technical office environments - regular 1440p or 4K ~150 PPI displays work just fine.

E: Actually, I suppose my Samsung counts. But the point stands w.r.t. "real computer" displays.