This is a chip for server farms, not for PCs.

Because it is ARM. I mean, this SoC was designed by ARM, the company. Why should they use a competing ISA?

Yes but it is 10% of global revenue, not just 10% of the revenue in Europe.

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant, but Zed is not atom-based. VSCode and other editors based on it have direct Atom ascendancy, however in the case of Zed is mostly in the developer team, and thus many concepts about what an editor should be are similar or evolved from those in Atom.

Many IDEa are slow because they are 1) written in Java and/or 2) they integrate the debugging information in the editing structures in a suboptimal way and/or 3) they have a heavy user interface and/or 4) the internal data structures of the editor are badly conceived to start with.

A lot of programmers that understand debugging have limited understanding of text editing, and so on. Understanding of efficient algorithms is today less widespread than it used many years ago, even though we know a lot more of very efficient algorithms, esp. heuristic ones.

I used IDEs capable of debugging and interactive code manipulation on a Mac 30+ years ago. And they were relatively snappy. There is no reason they should not be extremely snappy today, except library and UI bloat, which often happens today in almost every piece of SW.

Integrating gdb-like functionality in an editor like Zed should not be too difficult. In fact, an interface over gdb should be easy to code, but they have limited time and resources (mostly human).

Not yet, and I am not sure there will even be one. It is meant to be a project-oriented editor, not an IDE.

To me it speaks that it manages to be sleek, fast, have an uncluttered look, and not relying on humongous things like Electron.
Also, there i actual research on the data structures behind the scenes. I helped a bit optimize the choice of memory allocator and parameters for the lengths of the ropes. It can load very large files almost instantaneously.

It has a few rough edges and some features are incomplete, but it has enormous promise. The windows version is coming out soon.

Zed speaks vi very well. It has an actual vi mode and almost all keybindings are the same.

True. Neither can most student, though.

Was is the Orange Pi 5 or a previous Orange Pi N with N strictly smaller than 5?

I believe that almost all consumer sound products have always been crap. The main difference is that today you can get also extremely good equipment at fair prices, be it some second hand classic vintage stuff or some modern DAC (sub 1K$, based on Sabre, CS, Rohm or AKM chips) an essentially perfect amplifiers that have no audible distortion, noise and frequency variations and that can drive almost any speaker around (for instance the NCore or Purifi offers). So the situation today is actually better, even though the snake oil vendors are trying to tell you you need a 500pound turntable, a set of D'Agostino amps driving Wilson Chromosomic speakers.

You can indeed disable SIP also on an Apple Silicon Mac. I know because I did it to let SwitchResX add new resolutions to my MacBook Air's display.

Isn't this what Alexander Graf has achieved? Of course this is not official, but we can still hope.

And with the new machines you can get one machine that can run all 3 major operating systems, on "both" architectures!

Well, no. The ARM architecture (and IP) defines a ton of aspects of the architecture, in particular how the cores interact with the Caches, the interconnect, and the peripherals. Whereas several components can be adapted to work with different architectures, and some are connected through industry standard interconnects (such as PCIe), many other components need to talk to each other using a specific set of protocols. The ARM Architecture is not just a ISA, it is a complete Architecture. So, by taking out ARM cores from an ARM-based SoC and replacing it with something different would result in IP infringement. There is a ton of work going into architecting several aspects of the complete architecture - in fact more work than "just" the ISA. RISC-V is at the moment not much more than a set of ISAs.