The zed editor is a modern and very snappy editor developped in rust. It’s a bit behind more mature emacs/vim/vscode in term of features, though it’s already pretty usable. There is an ocaml extension which I contributed to a little bit.
I’d be curious to know if other people have tried this editor and would be willing to put a little bit of work into the extension. For now I do it mostly for myself. And would probably have more motivation if I knew it’s actually being used by other people too.
For some weeks, I am giving the zed editor a try. So far, I am pretty happy with it. Thanks for the extension! And I am willing to help you with the extension, but I have no idea where to start.
I use it! I’ll consider contributing too if I write more ocaml. Would be great to get it as robust as the ocaml vscode platform.
Zed’s my daily driver now, especially now that their agentic editing feature is out.
I have been using using Zed for ocaml programming the past few months to work on my side project (very slowly implementing the languages in TAPL). I have really enjoyed Zed thus far. It would be nice if there was syntax highlighting for menhir and ocamllex.
there is GitHub - Kerl13/tree-sitter-menhir: Menhir grammar for tree-sitter so it should be possible. Could you please open a feature request on the ocaml extension repo?
I am in the middle of considering a switch to it from Sublime Text. I haven’t signed up for a login account (yet). Mostly focused on how well it works as an offline only text editor. So far, it seems like it’s not a downgrade, i.e. most of what bugs me about the OCaml support is probably not on the editor but rather on deficiencies in the OCaml LSP (which, sadly, I am not in a position to help contribute improvements). I wish there were a DAP adapter. It feels like Zed could be a decent alternative to VSCode.
The Debugger is Here — Zed's Blog was announced in June so there is DAP support. It should be possible to get that working with bytecode debugger https://github.com/hackwaly/ocamlearlybird or native debugger using LLDB DAP server.
I use neovim for single file tasks and zed for multifile ones. The zed OCaml extension is really handy. I’m an OCaml newb so the grammar checking and autocomplete is really helpful. Thanks for all your hard work!
i daily drive zed and write ocaml maybe 60–70% of the time. i forked the ocaml extension here with a few tiny syntax highlighting changes that i thought would be hard to explain in a PR beyond ‘i think the highlighting looks better’ but happy to integrate my changes upstream if there’s interest!