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Zed on Linux is out! (zed.dev)
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Zed is a modern open-source code editor, built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer.

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 58 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

ooh, available for “x86_65” on Alpine

(and they’ve fixed that now)

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have you really not heard of it? It is a new architecture that is a bit better than x64_64.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Finally. 65 bit processor.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

imagine the nightmare of writing a 65 bit instruction set

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it has to be a nightmare per se if you start from scratch.

Instead of 8-bit bytes, you have 5-bit "bytes" (fyves?) Hoozah! Done.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

only if double precision can be called high fyves

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

This is a mandatory rule now.

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Now imagine designing a 65 bit computer. The bus, registers, alu...

You'll probably waste a lotta chips since most of them are designed for working with powers of 2