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So, what‘s Zed?
by Tepix 1y ago
So, what‘s Zed?
- jks 1y agoAn AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172
- athenot 1y agoEven without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.
- azemetre 1y agoSomeone posted this in the other zed thread but it looks on par with VS Code in speed according to these results: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663 https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663
- nicce 1y agoDepends how you measure it. At least my battery lasts hour longer when using Zed and when comparing to VSCode. Also, the link is almost 1,5 years old.
- efilife 1y agoIt wasn't an AI editor for a long time
- fooqux 1y agoYup. Their big design goal seemed to just be "speed" for a majority of development. That's it.
- andrewmcwatters 1y agoI don't understand why people say X is a competitor to Cursor, which is built on Visual Studio Code, when GitHub Copilot came out first, and is... built on Visual Studio Code. It also didn't start out as a competitor to either.
- skrtskrt 1y ago[flagged]
- tonyedgecombe 1y agoHarsh but true.
- zwnow 1y agoSorry I couldn't hear you through the nvim startup time and keyboard noises while you are waiting for your IDE to start
- skrtskrt 1y agoFamous indicator of software quality: how fast an editor opened to write it.
- pjmlp 1y agoWho restarts their IDE all the time? I take more than that to fetch a coffee down the kitchen area.
- jen20 1y agoDepends which IDE. IntelliJ stays open permanently. When I used full-fat visual studio it would crash so often that I’d have developed an even worse caffeine problem had I fetched coffee every time it needed restarting.
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- spagoop 1y agoZed's dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
- jeffreygoesto 1y agoPadadadap - Sound of fingers on a leather hood...
- ricardobeat 1y agoSpiritual successor to Sublime Text. They’ve been doing a lot of AI stuff but originally just focused on speed. https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/
- Jtsummers 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor) More like a spiritual successor to Atom, at least per the people that started it who came from that project.
- lexoj 1y agoIts funny how the same guy who wrote (borderline) the slowest editor, went ahead and built the fastest. Practice makes perfect I guess :)
- ricardobeat 1y agoAtom was based on web tech, like VSCode, while Zed is a native app with a custom GUI framework, just like Sublime Text. And just like ST, the standard option now for a fast barebones text editor. That's what I mean by 'spiritual successor'.
- eviks 1y agoIsn't extensible plugin API part of ST spirit? (so zed can't be a successor until its spirit incorporates a similar one)
- yobert 1y agoZed is a really really nice editor. I consider the AI features secondary but they have been useful here and there. (I usually have them off.) You can use it like cursor if you want to. Where I think it gets really interesting is they are adding features in it to compete with slack. Imagine a tight integration between slack huddles and VS code's collaborative editing. Since it's from scratch it's much nicer than both. I'm really excited about it.
- dmit 1y agoCode editor. Imagine VSCode, but with a native GUI for each platform it supports and fewer plugins. And a single `disable_ai` setting that you can use to toggle those kinds of features off or on.
- barbazoo 1y agoWatch the video on https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/, apparently it's really good at quickly cycling through open documents at 120Hz while still seeing every individual tab. Probably something people asked for at some point.
- Scarbutt 1y agoA code editor with a lot of rough edges. If they don't start polishing the turd I doubt the'll make it.