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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 jamesgeck0 »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #48
sapiogram wrote: post #24

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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

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.

As far as I can figure out, the root issue is even simpler than that. Their hinter is broken. The edges of characters aren't aligned with the pixel grid, so there's lots of fuzzy/blurry looking text.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by coder543 »

hu3 wrote: post #122
rtaylorgarlock wrote: post #30

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Wow. This might be the 1st time i've seen someone comment negatively regarding UI performance. Zed is one of the fastest programs i use. I used to laugh when seeing them market fps and such, but yeesh it's fast

> Wow. This might be the 1st time i've seen someone comment negatively regarding UI performance Here you go: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... > I found Copilot tab completion completion to be VERY slow in Zed, for some reason. > Zed still takes a relatively long time to start on my old desktop. I thought something was wrong but no, it is just THAT slow > I have tried it out and by defau…

> Here you go

That is a list of search results of people complaining that VS Code is slow compared to Zed.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by llbbdd »

cnqso wrote: post #162
ppeetteerr wrote: post #141

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

Every single new HN thread should come with an automod post badmouthing Electron to save everyone time.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by neurostimulant »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #139
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.

> I haven't found anything else that touches it. Have Claude Code resolve merge conflicts, problem solved.

"vibe merging"

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by dcre »

Glad to see this out so quickly. Like I said[0] on the Gemini announcement post, it feels like Zed is trying to get out of the business of iterating on agent logic and just let other people handle it. Any prompting secret sauce a) is trivial to copy, and b) gets eaten by the next model generation anyway. The capabilities of Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. seem to me to be converging.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045515

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by paraboul »

dpatterbee wrote: post #98
1zael wrote: post #87

Zed lacks an ecosystem for plugins, which is a huge drawback for me. The native debugging UX is cool, but I can get this w/ my VSCode plugins.

This seems obviously untrue. https://zed.dev/extensions

extentions in Zed are just languages support and themes.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by malshe »

This might come off as a naive question so pardon me in advance for my ignorance. I got Claude Max just last week and I have been using it in the MacOS Terminal app. I also used it in Zed and VS Code terminals and faced no issues. So what is the advantage of using it natively like this?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by typpilol »

IshKebab wrote: post #113
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.

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…

You can actually open the text tools on discord and see what's taking up memory and CPU.

They also have a new feature that's experimental that lets you offload extensions to a separate extension host so they don't block on the main thread for poorly designed or performing extensions.

It's definitely not slow in its default for .

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by typpilol »

WD-42 wrote: post #144
Barrin92 wrote: post #136

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>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.

No. When a press a character key on my keyboard, it should appear in my editor immediately. All other IDE features like auto-completion happen asynchronously.

Are you telling me that it was a delay when you type in vscode? If so, either your configuration or computer is doing something wrong

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by typpilol »

manuhabitela wrote: post #143
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 is noticeably slow compared to sublime text or zed, even without any extension. You instantly notice it when switching files or typing things that trigger auto-completions. In the end the feeling is drastically different. It weirdly makes for a more peaceful experience to have such a snappy editor. vscode wins thanks to all its extensions, where basically every language is supported and most features you can t…

I've never once experienced delayed input typing even with a lot of extensions
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