Have a look at Zed, an open source modern text editor that changes the game
242 sats \ 4 comments \ @nullama 12 Sep tech
Recently I came across Zed, a text editor that is built in Rust and I was so happy with it that I am now using it everywhere.
It's extremely fast, works with multiple languages, and I am particularly happy that they support ollama for their AI assistant.
That means that I can run llama 3.1 on my laptop privately without sending my code anywhere.
It also support Python kernels, so basically you get a similar experience of Jupyter Notebooks, right there on the IDE.
It feels like a next generation text editor. Check it out: https://zed.dev
For running llama 3.1, you simply need to install ollama it and it will work out of the box: https://ollama.com you will have the ability to run many different LLMs, with llama 3.1 being the best one at the moment.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Malachi17 12 Sep
Zed is pretty neat, but I don't have any use for LLMs even though everybody seems to be all about them lately.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullama OP 12 Sep
Having LLMs integrated on your own laptop with ollama is a game changer.
It's basically "intellisense" on steroids.
You can press CTRL-Enter and describe what you want, and then the code will appear, in any language you want. It's almost like magic.
It saves so much time typing stuff.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Malachi17 12 Sep
I'm glad you like it. Hard pass. I'd rather type my own created code.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama OP 12 Sep
Yeah, I get what you mean.
I find it most helpful for languages I don't know at all.
I was able to add a feature for an open source Android app that I use because of this. The app was written in Kotlin but I have never used that language before. With the help of LLMs I was able to implement the feature by describing the pieces I needed in English.
It was an "aha" moment really. This changes everything.
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