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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by WD-42 »

pmg101 wrote: post #104
mikeocool wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zed's main selling point over VSCode for me is the lack of a slight delay between when I press a key and when the character appears. VSCode has always felt ever so slightly sluggish to me, and I find it maddening as I type.

So glad to hear I'm not alone! I continue to use SublimeText for this reason. Yet it doesn't seem to bother others.

I think a lot of people forget how long ago Electron/Atom were released, and the subsequent Cambrian explosion of Electron based apps and editors like VSCode. There's probably a huge amount of developers that haven't used anything else.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by extr »

sirodoht wrote: post #14
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 do you feel is missing from the UI?

People are bringing up a lot of sophisticated stuff. Honestly for me it would just be a more flexible panel system that lets me see eg: File Explorer, Git UI, AI mode, etc, all at the same time.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by timeon »

hu3 wrote: post #105
pimeys wrote: post #68

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It's really interesting point of view. I'm one of those people who avoid using VSCode at any cost. It's slow, it's bloated, the UI is not great, and it's slowly being locked down by Microsoft. If Zed would not exist, I would be using helix, neovim, or emacs as I did before.

Interestingly I disagree with all your points about VSCode. It's fast, barebones by default, UI is minimal and it's Open Source enough that competitors forked from it. I guess YMMV because there is a comment in this post from another user about Zed being sluggish.

Even not counting the LSP, for a text editor, it eats quite large amount of RAM.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by mikeocool »

IshKebab wrote: post #114
mikeocool wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zed's main selling point over VSCode for me is the lack of a slight delay between when I press a key and when the character appears. VSCode has always felt ever so slightly sluggish to me, and I find it maddening as I type.

Weird, I tried it recently and found it actually a bit laggier than VSCode. The rendering is much worse quality too. Are you using Vim mode or something like that?

I begrudgingly gave up vim mode in vscode a few years ago, because that seemed to make it so much more sluggish.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by ZachSaucier »

atonse wrote: post #102

My main issue with claude code is running multiple ones in parallel. I don't want to manually do all the git worktree stuff, I just want claude to handle it for me. So if Zed automatically handles that (where there's a worktree per thread) I can see the appeal. Apart from that, I'm already using Tower to view the changes so I'm not really sure what the value here is. I tried installing it, and got an error "can't loa…

Ona makes this easy: https://ona.com/

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by Barrin92 »

WD-42 wrote: post #123
IshKebab wrote: post #113

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VSCode is actually not slow. The problem is to make it useful you need to add quite a few extensions, and those can be slow. That itself wouldn't be too bad but VSCode doesn't expose any information about what is causing the slowness. You end up with "VSCode is slow and it could be due to any one of the dozen extensions I have installed", which effectively means that VSCode is slow. It remains to be seen if Zed can a…

VSCode (and all Electron based editors) have undeniable input latency. Zed is built by the same team that developed Atom and Electron and one of their stated goals is to make up for the shortcomings of these technologies. If you don't feel that VSCode is slow, it's because you are used to it.

>If you don't feel that VSCode is slow, it's because you are used to it.

I don't think this is a fair claim. When you start doing an apples to apples comparison, that is to say make full use of IDE and auto-completion features it's difficult to see a difference given that the latency and speed of the plugins starts to dominate any millisecond difference in input latency or rendering speed.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by user432678 »

conartist6 wrote: post #119
seanssel wrote: post #75

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The IntelliJ 3-way mergetool/diff viewer is best in class. I haven't found anything else that touches it.

Me either. I thought by now it would be standard UX everywhere, but that is very much not so.

Sublime Merge comes to mind, but I used it briefly before switching to JetBrains products.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by cpuguy83 »

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.

Anyone running this on Linux? I find it works fairly poorly there. To be fair, vscode is also not great for me (especially vim mode) on Linux.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by koakuma-chan »

seanssel wrote: post #75
kenhwang wrote: post #43

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Top of my head switching between IntelliJ and Zed: - Git UI is extremely barebones with no support for other VCS - No merge tool or side-by-side diffs - Configuration is all JSON - Would be nice having a full file tree for the search editor instead of just the list; having the functionality split between a tab and the outline panel is quite clunky. - Ability to move panels (files/git/console/debugger/etc) into standa…

The IntelliJ 3-way mergetool/diff viewer is best in class. I haven't found anything else that touches it.

> I haven't found anything else that touches it.

Have Claude Code resolve merge conflicts, problem solved.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by jryio »

ZpJuUuNaQ5 wrote: post #60

I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and…

Zed succeeds at reducing the switching cost. I used NeoVim for ten years daily and configured it way back in college days.

I thought I would be unable to move to a GUI editor and it turns out that the speed and efficiency of Zed plus the almost one-to-one mapping of Vim features means that I am extremely productive in Zed.

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