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I’ve tried Zed and it’s really nice but there is a very high bar for switching to a new editor - it has to be sufficiently better than alternatives and also hav

I’ve tried Zed and it’s really nice but there is a very high bar for switching to a new editor - it has to be sufficiently better than alternatives and also have widespread adoption. There are so many man hours that went into things like undo-tree and magit. And thanks to the sheer popularity of mainstream editors, I can get language support for languages that aren’t even publicly available like Jai. I want to use it, but I don’t think I am going to be able to justify investing in new editors at this point unless there is something extremely compelling about it.

cedws 2y ago
I tried Zed a few weeks ago and was extremely impressed. I was expecting it to be another half baked 'Rewrite it in Rust' hobby project, but it's actually very much usable for the kind of development I'm doing. Since then I've completely swapped it out with VSCode and loving it so far. There's only one or two small issues which I'm hoping will be ironed out soon. Zed is also really really fast. I can feel the input latency is significantly lower than VSCode and faster feedback helps me write code more fluently.
- bioneuralnet 2y ago
  Ditto! The only thing that occasionally bumps me is a few missing features in vim-mode (marks & recording). But it feels so much faster than VS Code, I'm willing to put up with it so far.
lsllc 2y ago
I tried Zed a while ago, not long after they first launched. It was pretty interesting (gpu+rust+tree-sitter+lsp), but not enough to draw me from neovim. After they went open source (and launched extensions!) I looked at it again and actually I'm really impressed with the progress (incl. vim keybindings ftw!). I'm at the point of using it for some new projects and continuing with neovim for my existing ones -- there's a lot of community input e.g. nvim-surround functionality was just added. I think at this point it does everything that I have in my (somewhat minimal) nvim config (and much of that is tree-sitter/LSP). The one big feature I'm interested in is dap support so I can finally give up on gdb cli.

cedws 2y ago

I tried Zed a few weeks ago and was extremely impressed. I was expecting it to be another half baked 'Rewrite it in Rust' hobby project, but it's actually very much usable for the kind of development I'm doing. Since then I've completely swapped it out with VSCode and loving it so far. There's only one or two small issues which I'm hoping will be ironed out soon. Zed is also really really fast. I can feel the input latency is significantly lower than VSCode and faster feedback helps me write code more fluently.

bioneuralnet 2y ago
Ditto! The only thing that occasionally bumps me is a few missing features in vim-mode (marks & recording). But it feels so much faster than VS Code, I'm willing to put up with it so far.

lsllc 2y ago

I tried Zed a while ago, not long after they first launched. It was pretty interesting (gpu+rust+tree-sitter+lsp), but not enough to draw me from neovim. After they went open source (and launched extensions!) I looked at it again and actually I'm really impressed with the progress (incl. vim keybindings ftw!). I'm at the point of using it for some new projects and continuing with neovim for my existing ones -- there's a lot of community input e.g. nvim-surround functionality was just added. I think at this point it does everything that I have in my (somewhat minimal) nvim config (and much of that is tree-sitter/LSP). The one big feature I'm interested in is dap support so I can finally give up on gdb cli.