I moved to Zed last week and its been amazing so far! Something about using it feels a lot more crisp and fast compared to vscode. Their AI integration is pretty decent too. But I am very glad I can disable AI now. I find AI sometimes takes me out of the flow because I am constantly reviewing its code.
You can now disable all AI features in Zed
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#62Zed seems really nice, and the usability has come a really long way in the last couple of months. That being said, I have one issue, and I hesitate to even bring it up because it seems so shallow: I hate all the themes! They all look so ugly and amateur. I know this is a really trivial thing, it's like complaining I don't like Python because it uses whitespace for indent or something, but I just can't get over it. VS…
I use the Night Owl theme in all my editors (and terminal), including Zed, and the consistency is nice. It looks good, but if there’s a Zed-specific issue I haven’t used Zed in a while.
Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed
#63Something tells me that disabling AI is going to age about as well as disabling JavaScript. Even so, I like what Zed is doing here.
Disagree. The tab completion is very annoying when you’re trying to type. I know, I know, AI hipsters think typing code is so 15 minutes ago. Get off my lawn/keyboard. Its agent AI assistant isn’t bad but sadly the restore points button in the AI panel seemed to be broken. The fact it reminds me of sublime text is a big plus for me. The rust evangelism is annoying. Really. No one cares what language a program is writ…
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. In cursor, it’s at least 80% of the time jumping to the next thing I was going to do anyways. (Example: I add a function call, and tab recommend jumping to the top of the file, importing the function from the right spot, and then jumping back to the call site. Example2: I change a function signature and update one call site. It then correctly auto-completes the 5 other call sites to match the new format.)
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#64This is great. I just hope that they continue to make money. We really need someone to invest in making a Fast, modal editor.
Zed is not a great modal editor, modality is a strapped on afterthought. At least that the impression the vim keybinding give me. IMO the best chance I see for a fast modal editor that works out of the box is Helix.
Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed
#65I went from VS Code to Cursor, then got frustrated with Cursor breaking keybindings and other things, tried to go back to VS Code but missed the superior tab completion. Then I gave Zed a long hard try, but after over a month of daily usage I went back to Cursor again, just for the tab completion quality. I don't use any of the chat or agent features, but for me Cursor's tab completion is a step forward in work effic…
I think we don’t talk enough about tab completion model quality. Recently Copilot’s model got a lot better (probably trying to catch up to Cursor) but I feel like there’s still so much room here (and I assume Zeds is worse from your description).
Smart context / big context is a really interesting question, I’m kind of surprised Google isn’t building here given how much effort they’ve put into big context (they have Jules and Gemini CLI but no tab completion UX).
On further thought I think one of the big 3 (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) should partner (ideally not buy) with Zed to get a foothold.
Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed
#66I went from VS Code to Cursor, then got frustrated with Cursor breaking keybindings and other things, tried to go back to VS Code but missed the superior tab completion. Then I gave Zed a long hard try, but after over a month of daily usage I went back to Cursor again, just for the tab completion quality. I don't use any of the chat or agent features, but for me Cursor's tab completion is a step forward in work effic…
I think we don’t talk enough about tab completion model quality. Recently Copilot’s model got a lot better (probably trying to catch up to Cursor) but I feel like there’s still so much room here (and I assume Zeds is worse from your description). Smart context / big context is a really interesting question, I’m kind of surprised Google isn’t building here given how much effort they’ve put into big context (they have…
I have the opposite experience, tab completion by Copilot just got significantly worse for me recently (the last week or so), both for Rust and Python code.
Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed
#67I went from VS Code to Cursor, then got frustrated with Cursor breaking keybindings and other things, tried to go back to VS Code but missed the superior tab completion. Then I gave Zed a long hard try, but after over a month of daily usage I went back to Cursor again, just for the tab completion quality. I don't use any of the chat or agent features, but for me Cursor's tab completion is a step forward in work effic…
I’m in the exact same situation. Prefer Zed’s snappiness overall but the tab completion in cursor is the only reason I keep coming back.
But at the same time, I’m also doing more vibe coding instead of manual coding as time goes on, so Zed might eventually win out.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 I've explored Atom when it was the hot thing, and more recently, an IDE called Lapce, which is built in Rust and doesn't use Electron. They've been great, but the lack of an ecosystem stares glaringly right at your face. I don't like Electron apps but VSCode gets the job done. I have my entire set of plugins and things installed here and now the productivity that I get off this setup even exceeded my long-loved Je…
I miss Atom. I loved it. I loved all the crazy plugins people would make to do all sorts of things. It was a fun time. These days I'm stuck on QTCreator most of the time. It's OK for core editing functionality but there's a lot that I miss, and some things like the generic Language Server support just aren't fleshed out much. I'm tempted to use another editor whenever I'm not working on UI files but it adds some fric…
Was atom functionally ever any different from vscode today?
Re: You can now disable all AI features in Zed
#70This is great. I just hope that they continue to make money. We really need someone to invest in making a Fast, modal editor.
Does Helix fit that bill for you? It's fast, modal and very little config required.
I think there's also a fork if you can't let go of the VIM bindings.