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> Wow. This might be the 1st time i've seen someone comment negatively regarding UI performance Here you go: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefi
by hu3 1y ago
> Wow. This might be the 1st time i've seen someone comment negatively regarding UI performance
Here you go: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=zed%20slow&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> I found Copilot tab completion completion to be VERY slow in Zed, for some reason.
> Zed still takes a relatively long time to start on my old desktop. I thought something was wrong but no, it is just THAT slow
> I have tried it out and by default it was so slow as to be unusable. After discovering it required some customization in /etc (because it's the only GUI application that fails to recognize my GPU on a very popular distro with next to zero customization, because I game a lot on Linux - weird how that's a me problem and not a Zed problem) it got better, but still noticeably slower than VS Code.
> I mean, good AI tab completion feels like a super power. Zed’s is not that good. It’s slow and normally not at all what I want.
> Zed tab is a lot worse in comparison (partly because it’s slow)
> In my personal experience I couldn't use Zed for editing python. Firstly, when navigating in a large python repository, looking up references was extremely slow (sometimes on the order of minutes).
> All I'm saying is that contrary to what someone else said about the software being "fast" I tried it and at startup, it was unusably slow.
> Tried using zed on Linux (pop os, Nvidia) several months ago, was terribly slow, ~1s to open right click context window.
> Zed is as close as it gets, I also use it, but it is still slow and cumbersome sometimes.
I'll stop here. There are other 4 pages of comments to pick anecdotes from, in this simple search alone.
- cyanf 1y agoThe other examples you listed are valid, but A.I tab auto complete is a model & inference issue unrelated to the editor.
- rvnx 1y agoIt is a feature that they control. Whether it comes from the model, a bad prompt, a bad provider or a bug in their implementation is their responsibility (especially considering you have to pay per-request AI features).
- cyanf 1y agoThat’s true if we’re evaluating Zed as a product, but the GP is discussing Zed U.I perf specifically.
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agoIdk if 'linux + gpu = problem' is surprising or very relevant either.
- coder543 1y ago> Here you go That is a list of search results of people complaining that VS Code is slow compared to Zed.
- hu3 1y agoThere are tons of complains about zed performance there. Do you think messages like this are talking about VSCode performance? > In my personal experience I couldn't use Zed for editing python. Firstly, when navigating in a large python repository, looking up references was extremely slow (sometimes on the order of minutes).