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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.
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It’s built by the team that built atom which was way better than vscode but was mothballed when Microsoft bought GitHub. They built it from scratch and not on electron bloat so it is a much better foundation. It will take a long time to reach parity with vscode but when it does it will smoke it.
So...nothing.
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It uses a fraction of the memory of VS Code and is much faster to launch.
VScode starts very quickly for an electron app. MS did a great job there. Memory usage of the IDE doesn't matter much when your language servers can eat 10s of gigs of RAM.
I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config) My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allo…
Not sure if anyone from Zed is here. I tried this out and got the following error: Internal error: { "details": "can't load supported slash commands" }
We just pushed a fix! Here's how to get it: - Start a new Claude Code Thread, which will kick off the background download of the new Claude Code ACP adapter. - Wait a few seconds, then start another Claude Code Thread. The new thread will use the updated one. We're working on a nicer UX for getting updated versions, which we'll definitely ship before Claude Code support leaves beta!
Internal error: { "details": "Failed to intialize Claude Code.\n\nThis may be caused by incorrect MCP server configuration, try disabling them." }
I logged in via Claude CLI using my subscription.
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My guess: their shaders or text rendering don't account for sub-pixel anti-aliasing, which is critical to getting decent text rendering on low pixel density displays. If they'd used Skia (which is what Electron and Chromium use), they would've got this for free. Instead they tried to reinvent the world and didn't realise how big the world was.
I love how we just reinvent the wheel again, and again, and again, and again... MacOS native apps have had great sub-pixel rendering all along, but I guess since we have to develop everything in Electron now it's time to reimplement all the exiting functionality.
- Zed is not an electron app
- In the linked issue you can see that this issue does not exist in Electron.
I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…
What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
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What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
Does it really? At the end of the day i need it to do my job. Ideal values don’t help me doing my job. So i choose the editor best suited and the features i need. And that’s not zed at the moment.
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…
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What do you feel is missing from the UI?
Their font rendering looks awful on non-high dpi displays, and the devs don't seem to care at all. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992