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tasuki on April 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I use Kate editor

Is it true Zed downloads node.js as a binary from the web? Why wouldn't you use the system provided node or package it with Zed if it's necessary?

cirwin on April 22, 2025 [–]

We currently download node if the system version isn't recent enough (we used to always download it, but I fixed that...).

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