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I've tried switching from JetBrains IDEs just a few days ago. The speed and memory footprint are very impressive. I ended up badly missing refactorings and some

I've tried switching from JetBrains IDEs just a few days ago. The speed and memory footprint are very impressive. I ended up badly missing refactorings and some other features and configuring a debugging session looked like something that needs more time than I had on my hands. So went back for now. I hope they add more IDE features eventually. There's not much a pure text editor can offer over Emacs after all. But this announcement sounds like they are prioritizing agents integration - the same thing that seemingly made JetBrains drop the ball on their core advantages.

atraac 5mo ago
Was in the same boat. I ended up not using Zed because it had a bunch of minor quirks that annoyed me but I moved to vscode. I primarily write Typescript and C# these days. I was a JetBrains fanboy for years and it feels way too bloated now, stuff notoriously hangs or takes too long on my M3 Pro. I also love Claude Code integration with vscode just a bit too much to give it up for CLI.
- DangitBobby 5mo ago
  Zed's CC integration is really good now.
wiseowise 5mo ago
JetBrains should really start investing into porting to Rust/C++ over their bootleg Java.
- DangitBobby 5mo ago
  Seriously. I love the IDE but given that my idle workload of Electron apps and Docker Desktop VM brings my discretionary allotment of RAM down from 32GB to 8GB, I have absolutely no headroom when running JetBrains IDEs so I keep them closed unless there's a specific feature I want.
  - dhosek 5mo ago
    What OS are you running? I currently have three Jetbrains IDEs open on my MacBook (M3 Max/36GB) and don’t notice any issue (although I don’t have any electron apps running which probably helps).
    - DangitBobby 5mo ago
      MacOS. I have Slack, Teams (different clients use different chat apps), Notion, Docker Desktop VM, several browser tabs, some corporate machine management stuff, and probably some things I'm forgetting about, all open all the time.
      - dhosek 5mo ago
        I think teams is the big memory killer there
  - CaRDiaK 5mo ago
    You might find OrbStack useful here as a replacement for Docker Desktop. So much faster and uses way less resources: https://orbstack.dev/ https://orbstack.dev/
steve-atx-7600 5mo ago
no emacs key bindings??? Makes me taking this is another hipster text editor that isn’t “an ide” (vscode)

atraac 5mo ago

Was in the same boat. I ended up not using Zed because it had a bunch of minor quirks that annoyed me but I moved to vscode. I primarily write Typescript and C# these days. I was a JetBrains fanboy for years and it feels way too bloated now, stuff notoriously hangs or takes too long on my M3 Pro. I also love Claude Code integration with vscode just a bit too much to give it up for CLI.

DangitBobby 5mo ago
Zed's CC integration is really good now.

wiseowise 5mo ago

JetBrains should really start investing into porting to Rust/C++ over their bootleg Java.

DangitBobby 5mo ago
Seriously. I love the IDE but given that my idle workload of Electron apps and Docker Desktop VM brings my discretionary allotment of RAM down from 32GB to 8GB, I have absolutely no headroom when running JetBrains IDEs so I keep them closed unless there's a specific feature I want.
- dhosek 5mo ago
  What OS are you running? I currently have three Jetbrains IDEs open on my MacBook (M3 Max/36GB) and don’t notice any issue (although I don’t have any electron apps running which probably helps).
  - DangitBobby 5mo ago
    MacOS. I have Slack, Teams (different clients use different chat apps), Notion, Docker Desktop VM, several browser tabs, some corporate machine management stuff, and probably some things I'm forgetting about, all open all the time.
    - dhosek 5mo ago
      I think teams is the big memory killer there
- CaRDiaK 5mo ago
  You might find OrbStack useful here as a replacement for Docker Desktop. So much faster and uses way less resources: https://orbstack.dev/ https://orbstack.dev/

steve-atx-7600 5mo ago

no emacs key bindings??? Makes me taking this is another hipster text editor that isn’t “an ide” (vscode)