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I recently switched from neovim to zed, and I overall like Zed. I miss telescope, and think some vim navigation was better, but I suspect that it has to do with

I recently switched from neovim to zed, and I overall like Zed. I miss telescope, and think some vim navigation was better, but I suspect that it has to do with how much effort I put into configuring one over the other, so time will tell. My biggest gripe was how bad the AI was. I really want a heavy and well-crafter AI in my editor, like Cursor, but I don't want a fork of the (hugely bloated and slow) vscode, and I trust the Zed engineering team much more to nail this. I am very excited about this announcement. I hope they shift focus from the real-time features (make no sense to me) to AI.

ivanjermakov 2y ago
What were the Zed features that made you to switch? I feel like with todays ecosystem it's easier to complete neovim experience with plugins than wait for Zed devs to catch up.
marcelarie 2y ago
nvim has a really good cursor integration plugin https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
- nichochar 2y ago
  second person to share this with me recently, will have to try it out. Looks pretty alpha, but interesting
marcelarie 2y ago
nvim has a really good cursor integration plugin https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
mynameisvlad 2y ago
After using Cursor for some hobby stuff, it's really good. I was surprised at how well it managed the context, and the quick suggestions as you're refactoring really add up since they're generally exactly what I was about to do.
- avarun 2y ago
  Are you referring to cursor or zed here as really good? It’s unclear to me as somebody that doesn’t regularly use either.
  - robinsonrc 2y ago
    The way it reads (to me), it’s about Cursor being good
- everforward 2y ago
  I’ve been likewise surprised. The code part is fine; I’m impressed but not “worried it will take my job” impressed. Where it really shines for me is repetitive crap I would usually put off. The other day I was working with an XML config and creating a class to store the config so it could be marshalled/unmarshalled. It picked up on the sample config file in the repo and started auto-suggesting attributes from the config file, in the order they appear in the config file, even though the config was camel cased and my attributes were snake cased. The only thing it didn’t do correctly was expand a certain acronym in variable names like I had done on other attributes. In fairness, the acronym is unclear, which is why I was expanding it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a human did the same.
linsomniac 2y ago
Agreed about the AI, the last time I tried Zed I was also trying Cursor at the same time, and the Cursor AI integration vs what Zed offered was just night and day. So I got the Cursor subscription. But I haven't used it in 2 months (I don't get to code a lot in my job). This was maybe 3-4 months ago, so I'm excited to try Zed again.
xwowsersx 2y ago
Have you tried using Codeium in Neovim[0]? It may not have all the features shown in this post, but still quite good. I will admit though that I'm enticed to try out AI in Zed now. [0] https://github.com/Exafunction/codeium.nvim https://github.com/Exafunction/codeium.nvim
- roland35 2y ago
  Codeium works well but I really like the copilot chat plugin as well - it generally does a good job of explaining highlighted code, fixing errors, and other code interactions.
- nichochar 2y ago
  I tried codeium for 6 months and eventually went back to copilot. I think codeium is tier 2

ivanjermakov 2y ago

What were the Zed features that made you to switch? I feel like with todays ecosystem it's easier to complete neovim experience with plugins than wait for Zed devs to catch up.

marcelarie 2y ago

nvim has a really good cursor integration plugin https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

nichochar 2y ago
second person to share this with me recently, will have to try it out. Looks pretty alpha, but interesting

marcelarie 2y ago

nvim has a really good cursor integration plugin https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

mynameisvlad 2y ago

After using Cursor for some hobby stuff, it's really good. I was surprised at how well it managed the context, and the quick suggestions as you're refactoring really add up since they're generally exactly what I was about to do.

avarun 2y ago
Are you referring to cursor or zed here as really good? It’s unclear to me as somebody that doesn’t regularly use either.
- robinsonrc 2y ago
  The way it reads (to me), it’s about Cursor being good
everforward 2y ago
I’ve been likewise surprised. The code part is fine; I’m impressed but not “worried it will take my job” impressed. Where it really shines for me is repetitive crap I would usually put off. The other day I was working with an XML config and creating a class to store the config so it could be marshalled/unmarshalled. It picked up on the sample config file in the repo and started auto-suggesting attributes from the config file, in the order they appear in the config file, even though the config was camel cased and my attributes were snake cased. The only thing it didn’t do correctly was expand a certain acronym in variable names like I had done on other attributes. In fairness, the acronym is unclear, which is why I was expanding it, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a human did the same.

linsomniac 2y ago

Agreed about the AI, the last time I tried Zed I was also trying Cursor at the same time, and the Cursor AI integration vs what Zed offered was just night and day. So I got the Cursor subscription. But I haven't used it in 2 months (I don't get to code a lot in my job). This was maybe 3-4 months ago, so I'm excited to try Zed again.

xwowsersx 2y ago

Have you tried using Codeium in Neovim[0]? It may not have all the features shown in this post, but still quite good. I will admit though that I'm enticed to try out AI in Zed now. [0] https://github.com/Exafunction/codeium.nvim https://github.com/Exafunction/codeium.nvim

roland35 2y ago
Codeium works well but I really like the copilot chat plugin as well - it generally does a good job of explaining highlighted code, fixing errors, and other code interactions.
nichochar 2y ago
I tried codeium for 6 months and eventually went back to copilot. I think codeium is tier 2