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I'm also on the jetbrains train, but I stopped using it for a while because they're sluggish. An editor's interface should never lock up, an editor should never

I'm also on the jetbrains train, but I stopped using it for a while because they're sluggish. An editor's interface should never lock up, an editor should never have popups that demand focus, etc but both intellij and vs code do this. At the moment I'm on VS Code again because Sublime Text isn't keeping up to date anymore (its ecosystem has mostly been dormant since 2014 or 2016) and Zed is still fully in development and doesn't have some of the extensions and tools that I sometimes use in VS Code. If I were to go back to e.g. Java I'd probably use IntelliJ again, but then, the enterprise I work for would be shelling out for it.

roywiggins 1y ago
I ended up switching to Zed after VS Code lost connection to my dev VM and locked up one too many times. I am not sure what the issue is- maybe the VM is just running out of memory and nuking the VSCode daemon? But either way, Zed has not had this problem at all. I never had much problem with feeling VSCode was slow (outside of those lockups) but Zed surprised me by feeling actively fast. I do miss several extensions a lot though!
- sorcercode 1y ago
  > I never had much problem with feeling VSCode was slow (outside of those lockups) but Zed surprised me by feeling actively fast. well said. this is exactly how I felt too. when other folks ask why zed, and i tell them it's fast - i couldn't quite capture that feeling but this comment nails it. Zed actively feels faster than VSCode or equivalent editors; but once you get comfortable with Zed's speed, it's hard to go back.
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wasabi991011 1y ago
I had the same problem with pycharm, it was basically unusable on my Lenovo Yoga for anything more than text editing (so anything that actually makes pycharm interesting). I don't know if it's just my hardware or some software issue, but I was very disappointed.

roywiggins 1y ago

I ended up switching to Zed after VS Code lost connection to my dev VM and locked up one too many times. I am not sure what the issue is- maybe the VM is just running out of memory and nuking the VSCode daemon? But either way, Zed has not had this problem at all. I never had much problem with feeling VSCode was slow (outside of those lockups) but Zed surprised me by feeling actively fast. I do miss several extensions a lot though!

sorcercode 1y ago
> I never had much problem with feeling VSCode was slow (outside of those lockups) but Zed surprised me by feeling actively fast. well said. this is exactly how I felt too. when other folks ask why zed, and i tell them it's fast - i couldn't quite capture that feeling but this comment nails it. Zed actively feels faster than VSCode or equivalent editors; but once you get comfortable with Zed's speed, it's hard to go back.

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wasabi991011 1y ago

I had the same problem with pycharm, it was basically unusable on my Lenovo Yoga for anything more than text editing (so anything that actually makes pycharm interesting). I don't know if it's just my hardware or some software issue, but I was very disappointed.