Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed • Hacker News Board

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by seanssel » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

Longhanks wrote: post #21

tmdh wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like the UI is not as smooth as VSCode. There is a slight lag when scrolling.

Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust? ...and now they lose to a web app ?

I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they're used to a smooth scroll animation in VS Code or something? Zed feels snappier/lighter in just about every way to me.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by simonw » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

TheRoque wrote: post #22

extr wrote: post #10

Zed is so great, I do wish they would focus just a little bit more on bringing the UI just a bit more up to parity with VS Code, I would switch full time.

What's so great about zed ?

It uses a fraction of the memory of VS Code and is much faster to launch.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by blurbleblurble » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC

tmdh wrote: post #17

sirodoht wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you feel is missing from the UI?

I feel like the UI is not as smooth as VSCode. There is a slight lag when scrolling.

This could be an issue with GPU drivers. I experienced some incompatibility with GPU kernel drivers that allowed Zed to crash the whole window manager during text selection.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by sayrer » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:16 PM UTC

seanssel wrote: post #31

Longhanks wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust? ...and now they lose to a web app ?

I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they're used to a smooth scroll animation in VS Code or something? Zed feels snappier/lighter in just about every way to me.

No kidding. It is /so/ fast. It has remote development like VS Code, and most of the features I use, so it's my main thing now. Claude Code was the only thing that made me wince, since I wondered if I was living in the dark ages. VS Code of course has many more extensions, but I don't use that many.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by sapiogram » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:16 PM UTC

Longhanks wrote: post #21

tmdh wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like the UI is not as smooth as VSCode. There is a slight lag when scrolling.

Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust? ...and now they lose to a web app ?

There's a reason everyone writes their GUI apps in Electron nowadays. Browser have spent 30 years figuring out fast rendering, it's hard to beat that, even with native code.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by runarberg » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:18 PM UTC

Sparkle-san wrote: post #5

throwawa14223 wrote: post #4

Zed used to be a good editor but it is increasingly LLM infested.

Just disable it. It seems like they've made is as simple as possible to do so while also being realistic about what it takes to make a successful (read: profitable) IDE the year 2025.

Given the state of information technology in 2025 I think your parent has a good reason to believe AI features ruins everything. It is common in well funded (read VC funded) technology to start with an easy toggle to disable, and then slowly make opt-out ever harder to completely accomplish. Disable 3rd party tracking ads on google platforms used to be a simple toggle as well.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by nertzy » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:18 PM UTC

apwell23 wrote: post #29

what i am missing by using claude cli with nvim. i don't understand why editor integration needed.

The editor treats edits from Claude Code as a first class citizen. You can easily review, approve, rollback, etc. Claude's changes in a curated experience that is much faster than digging around in diffs or needing to approve each edit as it is proposed.

https://zed.dev/agentic

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by manojlds » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:22 PM UTC

apwell23 wrote: post #29

what i am missing by using claude cli with nvim. i don't understand why editor integration needed.

It's just about polish and tightness of integration or may even be lack of it. Claude Code for VSCode is basically Claude Code running in VSCode terminal with some integrations for open file, selections and diffs.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by peterson_lock » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

> Credit balance is too low

I have a subscription to Claude. What gives?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by zelphirkalt » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

Recently I set up a virtual machine running GNU/Linux on Windows, so that I can continue to use Emacs and all my usual tools for developing software, while I am waiting for a friend to make a move in a turn based game. I decided to give Doom Emacs a try. Well, I like the keybindings so far. However, it got issues. When I use neotree, it gets confused with windows (the Emacs term "window", not desktop windows, or the OS). Also it has already crashed twice. Once I even lost some code, which I had to write again. Unacceptable. Why was there not even an Emacs backup file for the file I was editing? Anyway, today I thought: "Why not try one of these other editors in that VM and see, if I like any?"

Yesterday I looked again at LunarVim's website. While LunarVim seems to look pretty, it has a lot of dependencies, including pip, npm, and more. Seems like it is installing stuff from everywhere. Not so confidence inspiring, especially pip and npm installs.

And just now I see this Zed blog post linked on HN! But, unfortunately the website is not inspiring much confidence either. Can anyone explain to me, why I cannot see any _text_ on all of zed.dev, without running JS? I mean, I probably know the answer, or some possible answers, but man, that's already such a turnoff, I already doubt the editor is any good now. Would be good, if they could fix their website, and make simple text, simple text again, accessible and all that. Please get some craftsmanship into this website.

EDIT: 'pparently I said something some people don't want to hear, lol.