Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.
I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.
You can however opt out by emailing arbitration-opt-out@zed.dev with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.
I’ll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.
Emacs is hard to refer to new users (unless they have the passion and time for these things), but I feel lucky I learned it while I had free time.
I feel like projects like these are the only ones that won’t betray us.
Indeed! I think packages like Doom Emacs help, but the learning curve is still steep.
But I do think leaning Emacs was one of the best things I’ve done!
Definitely happy I learned it. But I think it also helped I was introduced to it when I just started on Linux.
Most people that use Linux already has editor of choice, and emacs in windows doesn’t feel the same. I’ve had friends show interest in emacs because of how I use it, but it’s always such a hassle to set things up in windows.