Since the VC investment by Sequoia I’ve had my doubts about Zed. For one thing, a certain high-profile member of that VC publicly promotes a worldview that does not align with mine. For another, I’ve had it with my favorite products constantly enshittifying. I’d always seen my subscription more as a recurring donation toward development anyway, so I canceled it.
That said, Zed continues to impress. The editor itself, the technical blog posts, the introduction of new standards like ACP, fair pricing – all paint a picture of a talented, stand-up group of people.
So I welcome this new pricing, although like others I’m confused why I would pay 10% extra if I can BYOK.
Honestly, I wish I could just pay for Zed as a regular user. After all, I pay for Pycharm even though I don’t use it that much these days. I want to be a paying user so that Zed’s incentives align with mine, not with some big corpo’s. But perhaps that sort of thinking is detached from the reality of building a viable business around an editor…
That said, Zed continues to impress. The editor itself, the technical blog posts, the introduction of new standards like ACP, fair pricing – all paint a picture of a talented, stand-up group of people.
So I welcome this new pricing, although like others I’m confused why I would pay 10% extra if I can BYOK.
Honestly, I wish I could just pay for Zed as a regular user. After all, I pay for Pycharm even though I don’t use it that much these days. I want to be a paying user so that Zed’s incentives align with mine, not with some big corpo’s. But perhaps that sort of thinking is detached from the reality of building a viable business around an editor…