Zed extension

[thrasos-dev]

Create Zed extension to provide run configurations (and other Gradle tasks) utilizing Zed tasks.

[modmuss50]

I dont have any objection to this, I think we should try to support other IDEs where possible as long as they provide an acceptable experiance. Are you able to manually create a task that works, if so can you post it here?

[thrasos-dev]

Here is an example task I created for the runClient task.

{
    "label": "Run Minecraft Client",
    "command": "./gradlew runClient",
    "use_new_terminal": true,
    "allow_concurrent_runs": true,
    "reveal": "no_focus",
    "hide": "on_success"
  }

[modmuss50]

Oh, I would have expected this to be a java launch task similar to how we do it in visual studio? Does what you provided allow debugging?

[jpenilla]

I feel like this is a bit premature given the current state of Zed Java/Gradle support in general... no it won't enable debugging, Zed can't even see classes from libraries imported with Gradle (see issue opened by OP zed-extensions/java#23, https://zed.dev/docs/debugger#supported-languages). afaict it's just adding Gradle tasks to the UI.

I use Zed for web dev and other non-Java/Kotlin tasks (I use IDEA Ultimate for those) and think it's much better than VSCode, but for Java/Kotlin/Gradle it's just not there yet, to the point I would use VSCode over it.

[modmuss50]

Thanks for the insight, I had a similar experience with trying to use it for a C++ project, it shows quite a lot of promise but needs some time to be polished. Ill leave this issue open to keep track of it, as soon as it has support close to or on par with VSC (Debugging, and browsing MC sources is quite imporant to have) I think it should be something we support.

Its unlikely ever going to be as feature complete as intelij.

[thrasos-dev]

I am also referencing this relevant issue zed-industries/zed#20042 which is what needs to be implemented in zed in order to allow the zed java extension to see external libraries.