Remote editing in Zed
I'm writing these words remotely via SSH using Zed's remote development feature. It's pretty cool.
Why bother? As I mentioned before, I removed my personal notes from my work laptop and now access them remotely by SSHing into my home desktop. Separation of church and state and all that. I've been using Neovim for this.
I believe VSCode can do a similar thing, but I never got it to work. I was assuming that it didn't like connecting via my jump host, so I gave up, perhaps prematurely.
It's working great in Zed, and it feels very snappy. That's due to having a local instance of the editor running, as opposed to running Neovim on the remote host over SSH. Plus, Zed installs and manages a remote server, which I'm guessing optimizes how data is sent over the wire. Even fuzzy searching across my thousands of Markdown files doesn't feel notably slower than doing so locally.
I'd been avoiding Zed because of its focus on AI and collaboration features, neither of which I intend to use much. But then I realized I can basically ignore that stuff and still have a blazing fast, open-source editor. And I further learned Zed is made by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, so these folks know what they're doing. So far, I'm impressed!