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Mar 15, 2023 1 hr 27 min

Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Changelog Interviews #531)

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This week we're talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn't finished when he left, so...he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that's engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.

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Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. (Changelog Interviews #531)

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  1. 0:00 This week on The Changelog
  2. 0:52 Start the show!
  3. 2:38 Tetris!
  4. 8:20 What's the mission of Zed?
  5. 15:39 When GitHub was acquired
  6. 22:49 Performance, extensibility, collaboration
  7. 29:11 Sponsor: Postman
  8. 31:59 GPUI invented here
  9. 38:30 Zed is going big
  10. 48:35 Paging Chris Wanstrath!
  11. 48:53 Engineered for performance
  12. 52:03 Are you hiring?
  13. 57:49 What's the business model?
  14. 1:02:40 What makes a dev change?
  15. 1:05:50 This multi-player world
  16. 1:14:21 What can devs expect?
  17. 1:18:06 Fast tooling is fast
  18. 1:25:02 Closing out the show
  19. 1:25:49 Outro

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