Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.
Zed is now available on Windows
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Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#32First, you should fix fundamental operations on Mac and other distributions - for example when you stash or perform operations on files from other tools, it will put the state out of sync.
You can build the most beautiful and fastest IDE, but with this bugs, it’s useless
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#33[Window Title] Critical [Main Instruction] Unsupported GPU [Content] Zed uses DirectX for rendering and requires a compatible GPU. Currently you are using a software emulated GPU (Microsoft Basic Render Driver) which will result in awful performance. For troubleshooting see: https://zed.dev/docs/windows Set ZED_ALLOW_EMULATED_GPU=1 env var to permanently override. [Skip] [Troubleshoot and Quit] Ah bummer.
What does a text editor have to do to achieve >>awful performance<< when software rendering?
I also get that message when opening Zed in a VM. The performance is not actually awful, I can use it just fine.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
Maybe try gaming-oriented remote desktop tools, like steam link or sunshine/moonlight. Those work great with directx, assuming you have a working gpu (at least integrated gpu) on your remote box. They also have way better latency, though use a lot more bandwidth.
How am I supposed to ask for permission from IT to install Steam or gaming related tools like Moonshine just to use a code editor?
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#35Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!
I still Sublime for quick text file changes and then Zed for programming/AI assisted tasks.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#36I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate? If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is…
High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#37I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate? If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is…
Yeah, Kate will choke on a large single line file. Its one of the very few issues I bump into from time to time.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#38I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate? If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is…
High frame rates (low frame times, really) are essential to responsiveness which, for those who appreciate it, is going to make much more of a difference day to day than the odd hiccup opening a large file (not that zed does have that issue, I wouldn't know as I haven't tried opening something huge).
That's an interesting take. For whatever reason, frame rate is not one of my complaints about existing editors such as Emacs, VS Code, etc.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Idk about subpixel font rendering, but font rendering on Linux looks massively better after a patch last week: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme...
That "after" image is still rendered with greyscale AA rather than subpixel, but whatever they changed did make it more legible at least.
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Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#40I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate? If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is…
This always makes me laugh. The editor was barely announced two years ago. They've built it from the ground up with native support now for three different operating systems. They're experimenting with some cool new features, and even though I don't care about it I've heard their AI integration is pretty damn good.
But waaaaah they don't support a processor that accounts for probably less then 10% of Windows Machines