zed-industries
Perl
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Would love to have Perl support in Zed.
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Zed is the only editor I have ever used where no perl support/highlighting is enabled out of the box. I know that perl isn't what the cool kids use, but it's still extensively installed and has assets all over the place, so this is a rather odd oversight considering how many more obscure languages are supported.
Actually, I also feel very strange why Zed seems to support many obscure languages, but many relatively universal languages are not supported 🤣 cc @JosephTLyons
Actually, I also feel very strange why Zed seems to support many obscure languages, but many relatively universal languages are not supported 🤣 cc @JosephTLyons
The fact that we support some stranger, lesser known languages, and are missing some popular ones, came about kind of accidentally. For awhile, we halted on adding new languages, as we were trying to avoid baking everything in and wanted to move towards extensions, but after awhile, we'd get a dev on the team decide to merge in a language over a weekend to support some project they were working on.
We're working to reverse all of this. Once language server support lands fully in extensions, we will pull out all of these random small languages and only the well-known ones will be left baked in.
Perl being one of standard languages seems reasonable to me.
I have opened a PR with perl support; i await it being merged! https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions/pull/1438
Sorry, the issue tracker over here doesn't get many eyes on it - closing this out!