Zed is now available on Windows

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So not fully updated yet it seems.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by eviks » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:09 PM UTC

twoquestions wrote: post #4

It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on. I'm really liking it thus far!

Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

#7

Post by rovingeye » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by zamadatix » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

eviks wrote: post #6

twoquestions wrote: post #4

It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on. I'm really liking it thus far!

Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.

Size on disk is about 64x less relevant than size in RAM for me. To give Zed some credit in this area, it's statically linked and the Linux binary is half the size as the Windows one.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by olive-n » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:21 PM UTC

I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files.

That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text.

The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.

Re: Zed is now available on Windows

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Post by jsheard » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 10:29 PM UTC

Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux because they had designed their custom UI renderer around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays, leading to blurry fonts for the much, much larger proportion of Linux (and Windows) users who still use LoDPI displays.