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Of course that is what he says publicly. Can you imagine him saying anything different on this already very heated PR comment section? Those would be quoted in a headline in a news article the next second.

If Zed wants to treat Windows as a second class citizen, I don't want to change their mind. I am sure plenty of people other than me are willing to help and have the ability to contribute. The fact that there is no official build for Windows for so long says plenty about the project. The writing is on the wall.

I am not an idiot. Recent developments in the open source world should already give everybody a better idea of where they should spend their time and energy.

my "own inability to contribute"

Wow, didn't expect someone to pull off such accusations so quickly the SECOND time.

I probably wrote more code in pull requests than your HN comments combined.

I could, but nobody is going to trust my binary. And they shouldn't.

The build should come from the official maintainer. Period.

And participating in open source? Oh, I can assure you I am a seasoned open source contributor, but I am not going to just contribute to a random project. Wasted too much time on issues and pull requests that nobody looked at.

Easy to criticize other people, right? What have you done?

You are not the one who's confused. The author of the article is.

Does that have anything to do with SECURITY?

The train of logic has run way off the rail in this thread.

That is "does not work" for most people, including on HN. Nobody should be expected to spend half an hour installing vidual studio and building a project before they can start to use an IDE.

That's a lot of accusations without evidence. VSCode does questionable things, but nowhere near the levels you are describing.

And is there any evidence that VSCode is not secure, by Node.js standard? Has there been significant security incidents that were not handled properly? Has VSCode been neglecting security issues?

No to all those questions, based on my experience. Node.js inherently is loose on permissions -- by default you can do IO/connect to Internet however you want -- but that's not VSCode's fault. Otherwise, VSCode team has been very responsive at handling security issues.

(Saying this as an experienced VSCode user and extension developer.)

This is much less likely in a company. Any sane company decides on a clear direction which way to go. Either do X and put resources in it, or not and instead focus on something else. They may change directions, but never "maybe X" at a specific point in time. Someone at the company makes a decision on this.

Of course, with notable exceptions. See Apple Car, Android tablets etc.

I can easily fork your project with 1k lines of code, but not Linux kernel and stay up-to-date with all the latest commits. Nobody can.

> At least, it was exactly that environment that gave us the amazing product that has changed the world.

You need some extraordinary evidence to claim things like that.

To stretch things a bit, it's like saying, while male dominated the field of engineering in the 60s (and still do), it was exactly that kind of environment that made it possible for humans to get to the moon. Can you actually prove it? Really?

It's hard for me to imagine using git will slow down kernel development compared to sending patches in emails.

> But if my computer can quickly realize that I'm deleting every odd-numbered page of a PDF, or renaming every file to add a prefix, or following each link on a website and saving an image... and then just instantly automate the next 100 times... that's going to be huge!

The first two tasks could be easily done by asking ChatGPT to write a script for you. Scraping a website can be a bit more tricky. Still, I don't see why you have to rely on "computer use" for these tasks -- there are much more efficient and reliable approaches to the tasks.

* you can always choose to self a small model, although it probably doesn't work as well

* it's not a "random third party". You know to whom the data is being sent, and at least according to service agreements, most services don't use your data for training. If you don't trust Claude, you could trust AWS hosted version, or GPT/Deepseek hosted on Azure. Well, if you think Amazon/Microsoft is not trustworthy and they may misuse your data in these cloud services (not some random consumer facing service where you are the product), you might as well give up your digital life.

That's almost a negligible number considering the additional revenue the price increase brought in.

HN has a non personalized feed. That alone distinguishes from most social media today. And that matter a LOT.