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Zed is now available on Windows

548 points by meetpateltech 1y ago

nwah1 1y ago
Is it on winget?
- janpio 1y ago
  > winget search zed Name Id Version Match Source ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zed Preview ZedIndustries.Zed 0.208.4-pre Moniker: zed winget So not fully updated yet it seems.
  - metaltyphoon 1y ago
    Soon https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728
    - janpio 1y ago
      These ones actually: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/304075 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/304075
8cvor6j844qw_d6 1y ago
> Zed isn't an Electron app; we integrate directly with the underlying platform for maximal control. Sounds great. Looking forward to doing a simple test run with Astro SSG
twoquestions 1y ago
It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on. I'm really liking it thus far!
- eviks 1y ago
  Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.
  - zamadatix 1y ago
    Size on disk is about 64x less relevant than size in RAM for me. To give Zed some credit in this area, it's statically linked and the Linux binary is half the size as the Windows one.
    - Rohansi 1y ago
      What could they be statically linking to have a 400MB executable?
      - waterTanuki 1y ago
        They wrote their own graphics renderering library for starters, that's bundled into the editor when compiled. https://www.gpui.rs/ https://www.gpui.rs/
        typpilol 1y ago
        Is that really necessary for an ide? Seems like a ton of added complexity for little to no trade off or even a downside considering...
        trenchpilgrim 1y ago
        Yes. Zed is snappy in a way that makes my copy of Sublime Text 3 feel slow. Compared to VSC it feels like going from a video game at 40 FPS with 2-3 frames of input lag to 120 FPS.
        bschwindHN 1y ago
        You can read about it here: https://zed.dev/blog/videogame https://zed.dev/blog/videogame
rovingeye 1y ago
The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272
olive-n 1y ago
I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files. That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text. The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.
- simonask 1y ago
  I'm editing a UTF16-LE file right now. Works just fine. It does show the BOM at the beginning, though.
jsheard 1y ago
Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux because they had designed their custom UI renderer around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays, leading to blurry fonts for the much, much larger proportion of Linux (and Windows) users who still use LoDPI displays.
- typpilol 1y ago
  No lol
- sapiogram 1y ago
  Idk about subpixel font rendering, but font rendering on Linux looks massively better after a patch last week: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomment-3383408623 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme...
  - jsheard 1y ago
    That "after" image is still rendered with greyscale AA rather than subpixel, but whatever they changed did make it more legible at least.
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  - pulsartwin 1y ago
    I'm glad there's finally some progress in that direction. If they actually implement subpixel RGB anti-aliasing, it would definitely be worth considering as an alternative. It's been surprising to see so many people praise Zed when its text rendering (of all things) has been in such a state for so long.
    - byproxy 1y ago
      Yea, I tried to give it a go on Fedora, but the terrible text rendering made it a insta-delete, for me.
_fzslm 1y ago
I have waited for this for months... but it's still only an x86_64 binary! I love my ARM Surface Pro, and Zed would make a wonderful editor on this hardware. If anyone from Zed is reading this, please think about it!
- sunshowers 1y ago
  I build Zed for Windows aarch64 from source -- works great, though the build process is quite slow on my 16GB Surface Pro. Definitely hoping for official binaries, though!
  - _fzslm 1y ago
    I think I got as far as installing the Visual Studio Installer so I could install Visual Studio and I just bailed on that whole thing, lol. I'll have to take some time out on a weekend to take another look :)
- eyeris 1y ago
  For whatever reason, zed compilation on windows with msvc is extremely slow compared to the Linux counterpart. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145864 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145864 was opened because of the the discrepancy
mathnode 1y ago
I tried it for a bit. But unless you want to use their choice of lsp/linter/whatever from what you are used to, then you will waste even more time customising zed to your needs from your previous solution.
1a527dd5 1y ago
[Window Title] Critical [Main Instruction] Unsupported GPU [Content] Zed uses DirectX for rendering and requires a compatible GPU. Currently you are using a software emulated GPU (Microsoft Basic Render Driver) which will result in awful performance. For troubleshooting see: https://zed.dev/docs/windows Set ZED_ALLOW_EMULATED_GPU=1 env var to permanently override. [Skip] [Troubleshoot and Quit] Ah bummer.
- jsheard 1y ago
  That's more of an issue with your system than an issue with Zed, you have to veer pretty far from the beaten path to not have proper DirectX nowadays. Are you running Windows in a VM?
  - 1a527dd5 1y ago
    No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
    - neurostimulant 1y ago
      Maybe try gaming-oriented remote desktop tools, like steam link or sunshine/moonlight. Those work great with directx, assuming you have a working gpu (at least integrated gpu) on your remote box. They also have way better latency, though use a lot more bandwidth.
      - KetoManx64 1y ago
        How am I supposed to ask for permission from IT to install Steam or gaming related tools like Moonshine just to use a code editor?
        pezgrande 1y ago
        By explaining the advantages over "older" methods. A lot of people use Moonlight/Sunshine for non gaming related stuff, specially considering than the alternatives are all proprietary.
the__alchemist 1y ago
Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!
- KetoManx64 1y ago
  I still Sublime for quick text file changes and then Zed for programming/AI assisted tasks.
  - dsego 1y ago
    I also use Sublime heavily and then started with Zed for the AI assistance.
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- evil-olive 1y ago
  as a 10+ year Sublime user, Zed is the best of the more "modern" GUI editors I've tried. I haven't fully switched over to using it as my daily-driver because Zed's heavy reliance on GPU rendering means that it locks up every time I suspend & resume my Linux box [0,1] but I'm optimistic about the progress they're making on it. 0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940 1: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288
  - SnowingXIV 1y ago
    Was a heavy sublime user for many years, slowly migrated to vim (first sublime with vim keybindings) but now daily drive lazyvim and the defaults with that are very sane. Quick install on any platform and just works. And obviously plenty of configuration that’s available to you but if you haven’t I’d give that a go.
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breadwinner 1y ago
I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate? If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is on. Also show me how fast the start up time is. This is another area where Emacs does not do well. So Zed is available on Windows--but only if you have a x64 processor. Lots of people run Windows on Arm64 and I don't see any mention of Arm64. This is where the puck is heading. Also noticed Emacs key binding is in beta still.
- STKFLT 1y ago
  High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).
  - breadwinner 1y ago
    That's an interesting take. For whatever reason, frame rate is not one of my complaints about existing editors such as Emacs, VS Code, etc.
    - array_key_first 1y ago
      Latency often is for VS Code - that's frame rate. Your editor taking 1s to respond to inputs is not normal.
  - adastra22 1y ago
    This is one of those things that make me question whether I experience the world fundamentally differently than many of you. I have never, ever felt “latency” in editor UI. Any editor UI. It’s editing text for Pete’s sake. I can only type so fast, or read so fast.
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timfsu 1y ago
Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.
- 0x696C6961 1y ago
  That doesn't make sense, they both use tsserver under the hood.
  - foobarbaz33 1y ago
    You could have an lsp server of infinite speed, but that wouldn't help one bit if the bottleneck is how the client deals with the messaging. The specific techniques used to send, receive, and parse JSON could matter.
    - hdjrudni 1y ago
      Could, ya, but I'd be pretty impressed and sad if Rust didn't have really good JSON parsers/serializers by now.
      - steveklabnik 1y ago
        It’s had them for a very long time, pre-1.0.
      - adastra22 1y ago
        What do you mean? It has exceptionally good crates for that, and has for more than a decade. Is there something you feel is missing?
        socksy 1y ago
        Well exactly, I'm pretty sure that's what the GP is getting at — it would be a surprise if Rust didn't have good JSON support. Which it does. So it's unlikely to be the bottleneck.
kundi 1y ago
First, you should fix fundamental operations on Mac and other distributions - for example when you stash or perform operations on files from other tools, it will put the state out of sync. You can build the most beautiful and fastest IDE, but with this bugs, it’s useless
desireco42 1y ago
I don't use windows, but this is good development as all platforms should be present for editors to be worth using. I am happy Zed user since long time, I am happy it had kept with out demands, with adding AI, Git etc. Also integration of cli tools into AI is excellent and really refreshing.
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nopushcomplaint 1y ago
Viable C# support has stalled https://github.com/zed-extensions/csharp/pull/11 https://github.com/zed-extensions/csharp/pull/11
mythz 1y ago
Nice but too little/too late, already switched to Linux - where Zed already works great!
newswangerd 1y ago
I'm so impressed by how quickly this team can ship new features. It seems like every few weeks there's a new major update!
chrysoprace 1y ago
Nice to see. Will probably start using it over quick edits on Windows. I'd like to properly give it a go one day due to the effort put into its vim keybindings, but until then I'll stick to neovim.
Alupis 1y ago
Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold. The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significant amount of time perfecting a devcontainer (custom fat image with all tools/libs + config), it would be a large step backwards to go back to installing everything locally. There's a lot of eyes on this feature, so I'm hopeful it will be implemented in the future. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473
- droplit 1y ago
  Any chance you'd be willing to share more about your custom dev container?
- mercutio2 1y ago
  What does having a DevContainer get you? I’m all for documenting every bit of my setup, but beyond that…
  - adastra22 1y ago
    I use a devcontainer to run Claude Code on a sandbox with all tools and services installed. That way I can run YOLO mode with some safety.
    - globular-toast 1y ago
      That's quite unnecessary. You could just mount "all tools and services" from your base system without the complicated Dockerfile: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/ai-agent-sandbox/ https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/ai-agent-sandbox/
      - adastra22 1y ago
        Why would I do something that’s more work, less secure, and not cross platform?
miffy900 1y ago
Just wanted to mention that some basic Windows-OS keyboard shortcuts don't work, like ALT+F to open the File menu. Also things like ALT+SPACEBAR to bring up the system context menu for the focussed window (the menu with maximise, minimise, close options etc.) do not seem to work. I'm guessing with the DirectX rendering backend, the 'app' is rendered more akin to a video game than a native win32 process. Also after install, the install directory takes up 400MB+. Even VSCode only takes up around 380MB. I believe it when they say it's not an Electron app, but I do wonder what's being packed in there. I was always under the impresion that Rust apps are pretty lightweight, but that install size is nearing Java levels of binary/dependency bloat.
- tremarley 1y ago
  A 400mb+ install of bloat will upset many people This needs to be justified asap to help people understand and reconsider installing it.
  - hdjrudni 1y ago
    I was a little sus, so I checked: https://imgur.com/a/AJFQjfL https://imgur.com/a/AJFQjfL 897MB! But it appears to have installed itself twice for some reason. Maybe one is an 'update' which it didn't clean up...? I'm not sure. Edit: I just opened it and it cleaned itself up. 408MB now. I guess it was in the process of upgrading.
    - eviks 1y ago
      So the upgrades are not delta diffs either?
      - wongogue 1y ago
        Even if it’s delta, it cannot patch itself when running on Windows. So it runs the updater, creates a new exec and switches to it after relaunch. Same as Chrome or Firefox.
marcelr 1y ago
tried to switch a few times i can’t describe it in any other way other than it feels cold to use i wonder if anyone else felt the same in earlier versions and feels that it’s fixed
anta40 1y ago
I use this as Sublime replacement on my macOS. So far happy with it. Only use it as a general purpose text editor. Okay, I may ocassionally do some code editing on it. But most of the time it's gotta be VSCode or vim/nvim.
hdjrudni 1y ago
I switched from VSCode to Zed as my "I just need to edit this 1 little text file" app because VSCode was way too spammy. Every time I open it it wants to update something or complain about some extensions or complain that I had a file open and now it MUST close it because heaven forbid I open two things at once. I hope Zed stays clean. We'll see. So far so good. Was quite happy they had a JetBrains base hotkey setup. Had to add a few of my own but I could pretty easily, nothing missing so far.
qwertytyyuu 1y ago
What is Zed? A vscode like editor?
- marcosdumay 1y ago
  Pretty much, yeah. It's native code, and it shows. It also has some AI integrations that are different, but I don't know how well they work. It looks nice, but I haven't managed to use it for long.
h33t-l4x0r 1y ago
My work PC is a $600 laptop with an on-board GPU, will I notice a difference between this and Vscode?
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  $600 laptop can mean a Macbook with Apple Sillicon CPU in this day and age.
  - hu3 1y ago
    When they say $600 they probably mean brand new pricing. Last I checked, cheapest MacBook is $999+ for the air.
    - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
      I bought two of mine for $700 brand new at Best Buy. And I didn't even wait for a sale.
vietvu 1y ago
I didn't know bundling app for the most popular OS is that hard.
- linhns 1y ago
  Not the most popular for programmers
  - Athari 1y ago
    It is, based on Stack Overflow survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular-technologies-op-sys https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular... Couldn't find a way to access Statista report. It obviously varies a lot by the preferred languages, but Windows is still at the top, on average.
    - no-stegosaur 1y ago
      I hope you realize that Linux in this table is split up into many individual options where the others are not, i.e. that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch etc also all count towards Linux?
      - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
        Those are further breakdowns. It's not a pie chart, not all bars need to add up to 100%.
  - pjmlp 1y ago
    Only if they happen to be UNIX programmers. Turns out there are plenty of other jobs as programmers.
- no-stegosaur 1y ago
  In January 2024 zed was open sourced, with only mac support. One week later Dzmitry Malyshau showed up with a prototype renderer for Linux. In July 2024 official Linux builds were available mostly thanks to community contributors. The swift Linux support is a tale of community steppung up to open source development, not one of manufacturer provides something. So Windows is certainly not popular with the kind of crowd that gets excited about an editor
smusamashah 1y ago
I am using nightly on Windows and startup time is very slow. It can take 10 seconds to boot up. To quickly edit random files, I would open notepad++ or simple notepad instead, which isn't what I expected from Zed.
ergocoder 1y ago
It's a different tier of software engineers to be able to write a text editor, let alone the fastest one... I worked at multiple FAANGs and can't see me or any of my colleagues capable of doing this.
Frannky 1y ago
Zed is awesome. It does everything I need. I easily find everything I'm looking for. It's fast, and I can use forked CLI terminals from the IDE via ACP mode. This means Cerebras and Qwen code 480b for super fast and cheap incredibly smart CLI agents.
kettlecorn 1y ago
I've been using Zed primarily for months but I just switched back to VSCode for 2 reasons, one of which is kinda my fault and the other it's unclear where the fault is. 1. I deleted a few hours of work because I was late night coding and I decided to rename a file before check-in and delete the old version. Well I renamed it and Right-Click -> Deleted the new version by accident. It turns out Zed has both "Delete" and "Trash" right next to each other in its right-click menu. Delete skips the trash and Zed does not implement Ctrl+Z yet, so unless you have a backup that file is gone. Because I renamed it and had not yet checked in it wasn't in version control yet. 2. For some reason a particular crate in my Rust workspace wasn't having errors and warnings show up in the editor. I messed with configuration a bunch and couldn't figure it out, so I tried VSCode and it just worked without any additional configuration.
- typpilol 1y ago
  How can people justify using editors like this when they are missing basic features? Like what's the benefit?
  - bschwindHN 1y ago
    That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? Zed is still fairly new and although it's not perfect, they're doing quite a good job so far. I would be using Zed full time if Sublime Text wasn't already perfect for me.
  - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
    Zed is pretty awesome on macOS and Linux, but I tried the Windows version tonight and things that work great on the other OSes aren't working on Windows. I've noticed: - Issues with various keybinds not working as expected, e.g. Ctrl+S to save works on my Linux machines but not Windows if Vim Mode is enabled - Issues with LSPs/diagnostics not working on Windows the same way they work on macOS/Linux - The terminal holds a lot of assumptions about how the system works that don't hold true on Windows, e.g. "the user has one shell they use for all things" or "setting environment variables in the OS is easy" I love Zed on my work issued macbook and use it full time, but the Windows version still needs some work.
ohroy 1y ago
Technically, Zed's Super Compete will almost never catch up with Cursor, or even as good as the free Windsurf. If you look a little closer, you will see that the cursor and cursor completion requests are not initiated by the editor itself, which only interacts with the lsp. Yes. They all come with an LSP, taking free windsurf as an example, when windsurf starts, it will start a process in /Applications/Windsurf.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/windsurf/bin/languageservermacosarm, This process is responsible for syntactic analysis of the current code's workspace and then local indexing. The editor communicates with LSP through localhost encoding through protobuf, including the current cursor, currently open tabs, recently viewed files, etc. The LSP calculates locally based on this information, and if the inference cannot be completed locally, it will automatically extract the necessary information to interact with the server-side LLM. This ensures the intelligence of Super Complete. However, ZED's Super Complete does not have an LSP. Instead, it interacts directly with the server, which runs a zeta model. This pattern is not smart, takes up a lot of bandwidth and more useless context, and lacks more useful information due to the lack of LSP support. I hope my technical interpretation above will give you an understanding of why zed's super complete is technically backward. And, since ZED's LSP is configured by a third party, ZED itself does not offer its own languageserver, unless ZED is developing it now, but this is obviously difficult. In this case, I don't understand why zed would charge for a feature that is clearly lagging behind. You have to ask me why I know so much about this, because I am a member of Cursor, but I want a Zed Editor, so I want to customize an endpoint I developed by ZEDPREDICTEDITS_URL, relay requests to Cursor, to achieve powerful completion with Cursor in Zed. Obviously, it failed in the end. The above mentioned is the reason for the failure.
- MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
  Do either Windsurf or Cursor work well with local or no AI? One of the things I like about Zed is that it can, and is completely free.
  - ohroy 1y ago
    Excuse me, can you read what I wrote? I didn't say zed editor is bad, I just said that zed's PREDICT EDIT isn't good enough, or at least it shouldn't charge for it.
Rohansi 1y ago
ok dear thank you
gethly 1y ago
Does the editor have an "absolutely no AI crap" version? Also, it says that it uses WSL, but i do not use it. I use Git bash instead. Is it supported? (I'm asking instead of finding out myself because of the little interest I have in this editor)
- podnami 1y ago
  You can just ask AI
- monooso 1y ago
  You can disable all of the AI features with a single config setting.
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- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  I was able to change the integrated terminal to Git Bash.
zargon 1y ago
I want to try Zed, but it’s not going to happen until they remove the nonconsensual download of unattested third party code.
- ramon156 1y ago
  What do you mean by that? The extensions? Do you want them to maintain that themselves? Either you have a community that happily maintains extensions or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year
  - jhasse 1y ago
    If you open a .cpp file it will silently download clangd in the background. Same is true for other language servers AFAIK.
  - Novosell 1y ago
    They clearly just want the option to say yes/no to the downloads, hence the use of the word "nonconsensual". Seems like a reasonable ask.
  - zargon 1y ago
    Extensions to me mean something that I explicitly choose to install (regardless of whether they automatically update). As far as I can tell, Zed goes about downloading code (“extensions”?) invisibly with no user input. See, for example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 > or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year As a debian user, sign me up!
- monooso 1y ago
  You can easily disable automatic downloading of extensions. https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#auto-install-extensions https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#auto-install-extensions
  - exitb 1y ago
hannesfur 1y ago
It's great that they finally target all three mayor platforms! Let's see how developers using Windows treat them. I used to be a Neovim purist, spending days on my config and I have barely touched it since I moved to Zed. It's so much nicer to use then VScode (and it's forks) because it's so snappy. I hope they ship leap.nvim (https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim) support soon, then I am completely happy!
earthnail 1y ago
I absolutely love the idea of Zed, and I'm regularly giving it a go. Typing in Zed really feels better than VSCode. It's hard to describe, but impossible to discard once you've used it for a short while. Unfortunately, there's a bunch of small things still holding me back. Proper file drag & drop for one, the ability to listen to audio files inside the editor, and even a bunch of extensions, in particular one that shows a spectrogram for an audio file. Maybe my biggest gripe is that Python support is still better in VSCode. Clicking on definitions is faster and more reliable.
- d357r0y3r 1y ago
  The reason it's faster is largely because it doesn't have all those little quality of life features and extension ecosystem. It's easyish to make software perform well if it doesn't do all that much. If you take base vscode, no extensions, and just do raw text editing, it's hard for me to tell the difference between vscode, zed, or any other editor. When vscode was released, Sublime was faster - and it stayed faster. But that wasn't enough to stop the rise of vscode.
- lintfordpickle 1y ago
  I have to ask because I just can't wrap my head around it, what does 'ability to listen to audio files inside the editor' mean for a text editor?
  - earthnail 1y ago
    In vscode you can click on various assets, like images or audio files, and then view them right inside vscode. If you work with datasets, the ability to inspect them is crucial. Yes ofc I can use Finder instead but in vscode I just cmd+p.
submeta 1y ago
So many new options. NeoVim and Helix in terminal, Zed as a beautiful GUI editor. - A few years ago I thought it’s Emacs/vim for us hackers, and for the rest it’s Sublime, and later VS Code, and then comes nothing. But wow, here we are: Ever more options. I‘m loving it.
- pjmlp 1y ago
  For some of us it has been IDEs since the Borland days on MS-DOS, unless forced otherwise.
Fokamul 1y ago
Neovim > everything else. Bye
jonnyysmith 1y ago
Just downloaded and installed on mac. It asking access to pretty much every folder and even music apps. What a privacy nightmare. NOPE, will stick to cursor.
ktosobcy 1y ago
Uhm... tried to use it but it feels so lacking. Yeah, fine - it's "lean" (text?) editor but that's about it. Opening any project (even with plugins enabled) doesn't make feel any "improvements" (code navigation, sane autocomplete, project structure detection)...
- melodyogonna 1y ago
  Yes, the same experience. Although it had amazing support for Vim keybindings, it offered me nothing that I wasn't already getting from Neovim. The in-editor chat seems like it could be useful, but I don't have any need for it.
wiz21c 1y ago
Tested it a bit on a 2000 LOC python file, autocomplete is sluggish compared to VSCode (VSCode completes almost instantly but Zed waits about half a second before doing so). I didn't configure anything so I'm a bit disappointed...
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  Zed's ootb Python experience is poor since they use pyright as the LSP. There's threads on the issue tracker about replacing it, maybe check back in six months.
  - wiz21c 1y ago
    I though pyright is the one used in VSCode too, so was expecting same performances
    - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
      No, VSC uses Pylance as the language server.
dgan 1y ago
If I could finally ditch Visual Studio that d be nice
farhanhubble 1y ago
The project wide search looks quite unusable compared to Visual Studio Code. You only see the matches one file at a time.
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ZebusJesus 1y ago
Neat project for collab dev work
Rohansi 1y ago
ok darling thank you dear
xpil 1y ago
The annoying bit is that the `zed` command already exists in Linux (ZFS Events Daemon) so you need to go through some extra motions to start Zed (the editor).

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nwah1 1y ago

Is it on winget?

janpio 1y ago
> winget search zed Name Id Version Match Source ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zed Preview ZedIndustries.Zed 0.208.4-pre Moniker: zed winget So not fully updated yet it seems.
- metaltyphoon 1y ago
  Soon https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728
  - janpio 1y ago
    These ones actually: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/304075 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/304075

8cvor6j844qw_d6 1y ago

> Zed isn't an Electron app; we integrate directly with the underlying platform for maximal control. Sounds great. Looking forward to doing a simple test run with Astro SSG

twoquestions 1y ago

It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on. I'm really liking it thus far!

eviks 1y ago
Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.
- zamadatix 1y ago
  Size on disk is about 64x less relevant than size in RAM for me. To give Zed some credit in this area, it's statically linked and the Linux binary is half the size as the Windows one.
  - Rohansi 1y ago
    What could they be statically linking to have a 400MB executable?
    - waterTanuki 1y ago
      They wrote their own graphics renderering library for starters, that's bundled into the editor when compiled. https://www.gpui.rs/ https://www.gpui.rs/
      - typpilol 1y ago
        Is that really necessary for an ide? Seems like a ton of added complexity for little to no trade off or even a downside considering...
        trenchpilgrim 1y ago
        Yes. Zed is snappy in a way that makes my copy of Sublime Text 3 feel slow. Compared to VSC it feels like going from a video game at 40 FPS with 2-3 frames of input lag to 120 FPS.
        bschwindHN 1y ago
        You can read about it here: https://zed.dev/blog/videogame https://zed.dev/blog/videogame

rovingeye 1y ago

The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272

olive-n 1y ago

I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files. That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text. The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.

simonask 1y ago
I'm editing a UTF16-LE file right now. Works just fine. It does show the BOM at the beginning, though.

jsheard 1y ago

Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux because they had designed their custom UI renderer around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays, leading to blurry fonts for the much, much larger proportion of Linux (and Windows) users who still use LoDPI displays.

typpilol 1y ago
No lol
sapiogram 1y ago
Idk about subpixel font rendering, but font rendering on Linux looks massively better after a patch last week: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomment-3383408623 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme...
- jsheard 1y ago
  That "after" image is still rendered with greyscale AA rather than subpixel, but whatever they changed did make it more legible at least.
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- pulsartwin 1y ago
  I'm glad there's finally some progress in that direction. If they actually implement subpixel RGB anti-aliasing, it would definitely be worth considering as an alternative. It's been surprising to see so many people praise Zed when its text rendering (of all things) has been in such a state for so long.
  - byproxy 1y ago
    Yea, I tried to give it a go on Fedora, but the terrible text rendering made it a insta-delete, for me.

_fzslm 1y ago

I have waited for this for months... but it's still only an x86_64 binary! I love my ARM Surface Pro, and Zed would make a wonderful editor on this hardware. If anyone from Zed is reading this, please think about it!

sunshowers 1y ago
I build Zed for Windows aarch64 from source -- works great, though the build process is quite slow on my 16GB Surface Pro. Definitely hoping for official binaries, though!
- _fzslm 1y ago
  I think I got as far as installing the Visual Studio Installer so I could install Visual Studio and I just bailed on that whole thing, lol. I'll have to take some time out on a weekend to take another look :)
eyeris 1y ago
For whatever reason, zed compilation on windows with msvc is extremely slow compared to the Linux counterpart. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145864 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145864 was opened because of the the discrepancy

mathnode 1y ago

I tried it for a bit. But unless you want to use their choice of lsp/linter/whatever from what you are used to, then you will waste even more time customising zed to your needs from your previous solution.

1a527dd5 1y ago

[Window Title] Critical [Main Instruction] Unsupported GPU [Content] Zed uses DirectX for rendering and requires a compatible GPU. Currently you are using a software emulated GPU (Microsoft Basic Render Driver) which will result in awful performance. For troubleshooting see: https://zed.dev/docs/windows Set ZED_ALLOW_EMULATED_GPU=1 env var to permanently override. [Skip] [Troubleshoot and Quit] Ah bummer.

jsheard 1y ago
That's more of an issue with your system than an issue with Zed, you have to veer pretty far from the beaten path to not have proper DirectX nowadays. Are you running Windows in a VM?
- 1a527dd5 1y ago
  No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
  - neurostimulant 1y ago
    Maybe try gaming-oriented remote desktop tools, like steam link or sunshine/moonlight. Those work great with directx, assuming you have a working gpu (at least integrated gpu) on your remote box. They also have way better latency, though use a lot more bandwidth.
    - KetoManx64 1y ago
      How am I supposed to ask for permission from IT to install Steam or gaming related tools like Moonshine just to use a code editor?
      - pezgrande 1y ago
        By explaining the advantages over "older" methods. A lot of people use Moonlight/Sunshine for non gaming related stuff, specially considering than the alternatives are all proprietary.

the__alchemist 1y ago

Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!

KetoManx64 1y ago
I still Sublime for quick text file changes and then Zed for programming/AI assisted tasks.
- dsego 1y ago
  I also use Sublime heavily and then started with Zed for the AI assistance.
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evil-olive 1y ago
as a 10+ year Sublime user, Zed is the best of the more "modern" GUI editors I've tried. I haven't fully switched over to using it as my daily-driver because Zed's heavy reliance on GPU rendering means that it locks up every time I suspend & resume my Linux box [0,1] but I'm optimistic about the progress they're making on it. 0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940 1: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288
- SnowingXIV 1y ago
  Was a heavy sublime user for many years, slowly migrated to vim (first sublime with vim keybindings) but now daily drive lazyvim and the defaults with that are very sane. Quick install on any platform and just works. And obviously plenty of configuration that’s available to you but if you haven’t I’d give that a go.
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breadwinner 1y ago

I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate? If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is on. Also show me how fast the start up time is. This is another area where Emacs does not do well. So Zed is available on Windows--but only if you have a x64 processor. Lots of people run Windows on Arm64 and I don't see any mention of Arm64. This is where the puck is heading. Also noticed Emacs key binding is in beta still.

STKFLT 1y ago
High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).
- breadwinner 1y ago
  That's an interesting take. For whatever reason, frame rate is not one of my complaints about existing editors such as Emacs, VS Code, etc.
  - array_key_first 1y ago
    Latency often is for VS Code - that's frame rate. Your editor taking 1s to respond to inputs is not normal.
- adastra22 1y ago
  This is one of those things that make me question whether I experience the world fundamentally differently than many of you. I have never, ever felt “latency” in editor UI. Any editor UI. It’s editing text for Pete’s sake. I can only type so fast, or read so fast.

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timfsu 1y ago

Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.

0x696C6961 1y ago
That doesn't make sense, they both use tsserver under the hood.
- foobarbaz33 1y ago
  You could have an lsp server of infinite speed, but that wouldn't help one bit if the bottleneck is how the client deals with the messaging. The specific techniques used to send, receive, and parse JSON could matter.
  - hdjrudni 1y ago
    Could, ya, but I'd be pretty impressed and sad if Rust didn't have really good JSON parsers/serializers by now.
    - steveklabnik 1y ago
      It’s had them for a very long time, pre-1.0.
    - adastra22 1y ago
      What do you mean? It has exceptionally good crates for that, and has for more than a decade. Is there something you feel is missing?
      - socksy 1y ago
        Well exactly, I'm pretty sure that's what the GP is getting at — it would be a surprise if Rust didn't have good JSON support. Which it does. So it's unlikely to be the bottleneck.

kundi 1y ago

First, you should fix fundamental operations on Mac and other distributions - for example when you stash or perform operations on files from other tools, it will put the state out of sync. You can build the most beautiful and fastest IDE, but with this bugs, it’s useless

desireco42 1y ago

I don't use windows, but this is good development as all platforms should be present for editors to be worth using. I am happy Zed user since long time, I am happy it had kept with out demands, with adding AI, Git etc. Also integration of cli tools into AI is excellent and really refreshing.

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nopushcomplaint 1y ago

Viable C# support has stalled https://github.com/zed-extensions/csharp/pull/11 https://github.com/zed-extensions/csharp/pull/11

mythz 1y ago

Nice but too little/too late, already switched to Linux - where Zed already works great!

newswangerd 1y ago

I'm so impressed by how quickly this team can ship new features. It seems like every few weeks there's a new major update!

chrysoprace 1y ago

Nice to see. Will probably start using it over quick edits on Windows. I'd like to properly give it a go one day due to the effort put into its vim keybindings, but until then I'll stick to neovim.

Alupis 1y ago

Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold. The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significant amount of time perfecting a devcontainer (custom fat image with all tools/libs + config), it would be a large step backwards to go back to installing everything locally. There's a lot of eyes on this feature, so I'm hopeful it will be implemented in the future. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473

droplit 1y ago
Any chance you'd be willing to share more about your custom dev container?
mercutio2 1y ago
What does having a DevContainer get you? I’m all for documenting every bit of my setup, but beyond that…
- adastra22 1y ago
  I use a devcontainer to run Claude Code on a sandbox with all tools and services installed. That way I can run YOLO mode with some safety.
  - globular-toast 1y ago
    That's quite unnecessary. You could just mount "all tools and services" from your base system without the complicated Dockerfile: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/ai-agent-sandbox/ https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/ai-agent-sandbox/
    - adastra22 1y ago
      Why would I do something that’s more work, less secure, and not cross platform?

miffy900 1y ago

Just wanted to mention that some basic Windows-OS keyboard shortcuts don't work, like ALT+F to open the File menu. Also things like ALT+SPACEBAR to bring up the system context menu for the focussed window (the menu with maximise, minimise, close options etc.) do not seem to work. I'm guessing with the DirectX rendering backend, the 'app' is rendered more akin to a video game than a native win32 process. Also after install, the install directory takes up 400MB+. Even VSCode only takes up around 380MB. I believe it when they say it's not an Electron app, but I do wonder what's being packed in there. I was always under the impresion that Rust apps are pretty lightweight, but that install size is nearing Java levels of binary/dependency bloat.

tremarley 1y ago
A 400mb+ install of bloat will upset many people This needs to be justified asap to help people understand and reconsider installing it.
- hdjrudni 1y ago
  I was a little sus, so I checked: https://imgur.com/a/AJFQjfL https://imgur.com/a/AJFQjfL 897MB! But it appears to have installed itself twice for some reason. Maybe one is an 'update' which it didn't clean up...? I'm not sure. Edit: I just opened it and it cleaned itself up. 408MB now. I guess it was in the process of upgrading.
  - eviks 1y ago
    So the upgrades are not delta diffs either?
    - wongogue 1y ago
      Even if it’s delta, it cannot patch itself when running on Windows. So it runs the updater, creates a new exec and switches to it after relaunch. Same as Chrome or Firefox.

marcelr 1y ago

tried to switch a few times i can’t describe it in any other way other than it feels cold to use i wonder if anyone else felt the same in earlier versions and feels that it’s fixed

anta40 1y ago

I use this as Sublime replacement on my macOS. So far happy with it. Only use it as a general purpose text editor. Okay, I may ocassionally do some code editing on it. But most of the time it's gotta be VSCode or vim/nvim.

hdjrudni 1y ago

I switched from VSCode to Zed as my "I just need to edit this 1 little text file" app because VSCode was way too spammy. Every time I open it it wants to update something or complain about some extensions or complain that I had a file open and now it MUST close it because heaven forbid I open two things at once. I hope Zed stays clean. We'll see. So far so good. Was quite happy they had a JetBrains base hotkey setup. Had to add a few of my own but I could pretty easily, nothing missing so far.

qwertytyyuu 1y ago

What is Zed? A vscode like editor?

marcosdumay 1y ago
Pretty much, yeah. It's native code, and it shows. It also has some AI integrations that are different, but I don't know how well they work. It looks nice, but I haven't managed to use it for long.

h33t-l4x0r 1y ago

My work PC is a $600 laptop with an on-board GPU, will I notice a difference between this and Vscode?

trenchpilgrim 1y ago
$600 laptop can mean a Macbook with Apple Sillicon CPU in this day and age.
- hu3 1y ago
  When they say $600 they probably mean brand new pricing. Last I checked, cheapest MacBook is $999+ for the air.
  - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
    I bought two of mine for $700 brand new at Best Buy. And I didn't even wait for a sale.

vietvu 1y ago

I didn't know bundling app for the most popular OS is that hard.

linhns 1y ago
Not the most popular for programmers
- Athari 1y ago
  It is, based on Stack Overflow survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular-technologies-op-sys https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular... Couldn't find a way to access Statista report. It obviously varies a lot by the preferred languages, but Windows is still at the top, on average.
  - no-stegosaur 1y ago
    I hope you realize that Linux in this table is split up into many individual options where the others are not, i.e. that Ubuntu, Debian, Arch etc also all count towards Linux?
    - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
      Those are further breakdowns. It's not a pie chart, not all bars need to add up to 100%.
- pjmlp 1y ago
  Only if they happen to be UNIX programmers. Turns out there are plenty of other jobs as programmers.
no-stegosaur 1y ago
In January 2024 zed was open sourced, with only mac support. One week later Dzmitry Malyshau showed up with a prototype renderer for Linux. In July 2024 official Linux builds were available mostly thanks to community contributors. The swift Linux support is a tale of community steppung up to open source development, not one of manufacturer provides something. So Windows is certainly not popular with the kind of crowd that gets excited about an editor

smusamashah 1y ago

I am using nightly on Windows and startup time is very slow. It can take 10 seconds to boot up. To quickly edit random files, I would open notepad++ or simple notepad instead, which isn't what I expected from Zed.

ergocoder 1y ago

It's a different tier of software engineers to be able to write a text editor, let alone the fastest one... I worked at multiple FAANGs and can't see me or any of my colleagues capable of doing this.

Frannky 1y ago

Zed is awesome. It does everything I need. I easily find everything I'm looking for. It's fast, and I can use forked CLI terminals from the IDE via ACP mode. This means Cerebras and Qwen code 480b for super fast and cheap incredibly smart CLI agents.

kettlecorn 1y ago

I've been using Zed primarily for months but I just switched back to VSCode for 2 reasons, one of which is kinda my fault and the other it's unclear where the fault is. 1. I deleted a few hours of work because I was late night coding and I decided to rename a file before check-in and delete the old version. Well I renamed it and Right-Click -> Deleted the new version by accident. It turns out Zed has both "Delete" and "Trash" right next to each other in its right-click menu. Delete skips the trash and Zed does not implement Ctrl+Z yet, so unless you have a backup that file is gone. Because I renamed it and had not yet checked in it wasn't in version control yet. 2. For some reason a particular crate in my Rust workspace wasn't having errors and warnings show up in the editor. I messed with configuration a bunch and couldn't figure it out, so I tried VSCode and it just worked without any additional configuration.

typpilol 1y ago
How can people justify using editors like this when they are missing basic features? Like what's the benefit?
- bschwindHN 1y ago
  That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? Zed is still fairly new and although it's not perfect, they're doing quite a good job so far. I would be using Zed full time if Sublime Text wasn't already perfect for me.
- trenchpilgrim 1y ago
  Zed is pretty awesome on macOS and Linux, but I tried the Windows version tonight and things that work great on the other OSes aren't working on Windows. I've noticed: - Issues with various keybinds not working as expected, e.g. Ctrl+S to save works on my Linux machines but not Windows if Vim Mode is enabled - Issues with LSPs/diagnostics not working on Windows the same way they work on macOS/Linux - The terminal holds a lot of assumptions about how the system works that don't hold true on Windows, e.g. "the user has one shell they use for all things" or "setting environment variables in the OS is easy" I love Zed on my work issued macbook and use it full time, but the Windows version still needs some work.

ohroy 1y ago

Technically, Zed's Super Compete will almost never catch up with Cursor, or even as good as the free Windsurf. If you look a little closer, you will see that the cursor and cursor completion requests are not initiated by the editor itself, which only interacts with the lsp. Yes. They all come with an LSP, taking free windsurf as an example, when windsurf starts, it will start a process in /Applications/Windsurf.app/Contents/Resources/app/extensions/windsurf/bin/languageservermacosarm, This process is responsible for syntactic analysis of the current code's workspace and then local indexing. The editor communicates with LSP through localhost encoding through protobuf, including the current cursor, currently open tabs, recently viewed files, etc. The LSP calculates locally based on this information, and if the inference cannot be completed locally, it will automatically extract the necessary information to interact with the server-side LLM. This ensures the intelligence of Super Complete. However, ZED's Super Complete does not have an LSP. Instead, it interacts directly with the server, which runs a zeta model. This pattern is not smart, takes up a lot of bandwidth and more useless context, and lacks more useful information due to the lack of LSP support. I hope my technical interpretation above will give you an understanding of why zed's super complete is technically backward. And, since ZED's LSP is configured by a third party, ZED itself does not offer its own languageserver, unless ZED is developing it now, but this is obviously difficult. In this case, I don't understand why zed would charge for a feature that is clearly lagging behind. You have to ask me why I know so much about this, because I am a member of Cursor, but I want a Zed Editor, so I want to customize an endpoint I developed by ZEDPREDICTEDITS_URL, relay requests to Cursor, to achieve powerful completion with Cursor in Zed. Obviously, it failed in the end. The above mentioned is the reason for the failure.

MrDrMcCoy 1y ago
Do either Windsurf or Cursor work well with local or no AI? One of the things I like about Zed is that it can, and is completely free.
- ohroy 1y ago
  Excuse me, can you read what I wrote? I didn't say zed editor is bad, I just said that zed's PREDICT EDIT isn't good enough, or at least it shouldn't charge for it.

Rohansi 1y ago

ok dear thank you

gethly 1y ago

Does the editor have an "absolutely no AI crap" version? Also, it says that it uses WSL, but i do not use it. I use Git bash instead. Is it supported? (I'm asking instead of finding out myself because of the little interest I have in this editor)

podnami 1y ago
You can just ask AI
monooso 1y ago
You can disable all of the AI features with a single config setting.
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trenchpilgrim 1y ago
I was able to change the integrated terminal to Git Bash.

zargon 1y ago

I want to try Zed, but it’s not going to happen until they remove the nonconsensual download of unattested third party code.

ramon156 1y ago
What do you mean by that? The extensions? Do you want them to maintain that themselves? Either you have a community that happily maintains extensions or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year
- jhasse 1y ago
  If you open a .cpp file it will silently download clangd in the background. Same is true for other language servers AFAIK.
- Novosell 1y ago
  They clearly just want the option to say yes/no to the downloads, hence the use of the word "nonconsensual". Seems like a reasonable ask.
- zargon 1y ago
  Extensions to me mean something that I explicitly choose to install (regardless of whether they automatically update). As far as I can tell, Zed goes about downloading code (“extensions”?) invisibly with no user input. See, for example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 > or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year As a debian user, sign me up!
monooso 1y ago
You can easily disable automatic downloading of extensions. https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#auto-install-extensions https://zed.dev/docs/configuring-zed#auto-install-extensions
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hannesfur 1y ago

It's great that they finally target all three mayor platforms! Let's see how developers using Windows treat them. I used to be a Neovim purist, spending days on my config and I have barely touched it since I moved to Zed. It's so much nicer to use then VScode (and it's forks) because it's so snappy. I hope they ship leap.nvim (https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim) support soon, then I am completely happy!

earthnail 1y ago

I absolutely love the idea of Zed, and I'm regularly giving it a go. Typing in Zed really feels better than VSCode. It's hard to describe, but impossible to discard once you've used it for a short while. Unfortunately, there's a bunch of small things still holding me back. Proper file drag & drop for one, the ability to listen to audio files inside the editor, and even a bunch of extensions, in particular one that shows a spectrogram for an audio file. Maybe my biggest gripe is that Python support is still better in VSCode. Clicking on definitions is faster and more reliable.

d357r0y3r 1y ago
The reason it's faster is largely because it doesn't have all those little quality of life features and extension ecosystem. It's easyish to make software perform well if it doesn't do all that much. If you take base vscode, no extensions, and just do raw text editing, it's hard for me to tell the difference between vscode, zed, or any other editor. When vscode was released, Sublime was faster - and it stayed faster. But that wasn't enough to stop the rise of vscode.
lintfordpickle 1y ago
I have to ask because I just can't wrap my head around it, what does 'ability to listen to audio files inside the editor' mean for a text editor?
- earthnail 1y ago
  In vscode you can click on various assets, like images or audio files, and then view them right inside vscode. If you work with datasets, the ability to inspect them is crucial. Yes ofc I can use Finder instead but in vscode I just cmd+p.

submeta 1y ago

So many new options. NeoVim and Helix in terminal, Zed as a beautiful GUI editor. - A few years ago I thought it’s Emacs/vim for us hackers, and for the rest it’s Sublime, and later VS Code, and then comes nothing. But wow, here we are: Ever more options. I‘m loving it.

pjmlp 1y ago
For some of us it has been IDEs since the Borland days on MS-DOS, unless forced otherwise.

Fokamul 1y ago

Neovim > everything else. Bye

jonnyysmith 1y ago

Just downloaded and installed on mac. It asking access to pretty much every folder and even music apps. What a privacy nightmare. NOPE, will stick to cursor.

ktosobcy 1y ago

Uhm... tried to use it but it feels so lacking. Yeah, fine - it's "lean" (text?) editor but that's about it. Opening any project (even with plugins enabled) doesn't make feel any "improvements" (code navigation, sane autocomplete, project structure detection)...

melodyogonna 1y ago
Yes, the same experience. Although it had amazing support for Vim keybindings, it offered me nothing that I wasn't already getting from Neovim. The in-editor chat seems like it could be useful, but I don't have any need for it.

wiz21c 1y ago

Tested it a bit on a 2000 LOC python file, autocomplete is sluggish compared to VSCode (VSCode completes almost instantly but Zed waits about half a second before doing so). I didn't configure anything so I'm a bit disappointed...

trenchpilgrim 1y ago
Zed's ootb Python experience is poor since they use pyright as the LSP. There's threads on the issue tracker about replacing it, maybe check back in six months.
- wiz21c 1y ago
  I though pyright is the one used in VSCode too, so was expecting same performances
  - trenchpilgrim 1y ago
    No, VSC uses Pylance as the language server.

dgan 1y ago

If I could finally ditch Visual Studio that d be nice

farhanhubble 1y ago

The project wide search looks quite unusable compared to Visual Studio Code. You only see the matches one file at a time.

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ZebusJesus 1y ago

Neat project for collab dev work

Rohansi 1y ago

ok darling thank you dear

xpil 1y ago

The annoying bit is that the `zed` command already exists in Linux (ZFS Events Daemon) so you need to go through some extra motions to start Zed (the editor).