gethly

I have been stuck with JetBrains IDE for years now. I have no issue with the software(except the period few years ago around the time when they changed the UI and the background tasks were going insane which made me stick with old 2022 version for years), just with the company. I never liked VS Code, the UI does not work for me. I was hoping Zed would be my way out but it lacks some things I require, which prompted me to start working on my own editor.

It's a low priority project but I did the heavy lifting already, mainly the layouting, so the basics are functional. My goal was to see whether I can make desktop GUI programs in Go and it turned out that is possible and quite easy.

I started seeing posts on twitter about how people dislike JetBrains and Zed and VS Code and whatnot over period of few months now as I started paying attention. So I am wondering what is going wrong with these editors? For example, Zed being the latest one, I'd expect it to be flawless by now, having the knowledge of the existing editors and what went wrong with them but it seems they still get negative feedback nevertheless.

Why do you think people are still not happy with what we have? What do these editors do wrong and should I put more focus into mine and maybe try to make it into something bigger?

PS: obviously i am not talking about TUI editors but GUI editors.