I just feel second-hand embarrassment when seeing these kind of posts.
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#392- A new "AI" IDE announced - It's VS Code Like clockwork!
This is why I have much respect for the Zed team as they are chasing originality, not just slap something onto VS Code and call it a new IDE.
If both work equally well then why does it matter whether Zed or VSCode is under the hood?
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
You wouldn’t. It’s made to suck out investor money and show that google does something, not to actually bring value. My crystal ball says it will be shutdown next year.
I know Google is quick to shut things down but these ultra-cynical ultra-skeptical HN takes are so tiresome at this point.
This is what Google is like though. It is practically part of their corporate DNA.
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#394This thing crashes on Ubuntu LTS 24.04 during start. Apparently all these agents are not able to ensure that a desktop app starts on a popular Linux distribution.
If Google has forgotten how to do Software, than the future doesn't look bright.
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#395This whole blog post is seemingly about Google, not about the user. "Why We Built Antigravity" etc. "We want Antigravity to be the home base for software development in the era of agents" - cool, why would I as the user care about that?
All these companies were built by self-referential narcissists, and it seems to be their culture at the core.
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Has Google *ever* successfully entered and taken over an existing market?
Google's definitively taken over search, ads, e-mail, maps, office (for small/medium business). They're struggling on cloud, AI, ISP, videoconferencing, and others...
They clearly don't want to fold on AI.
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#397Wake me up when there's an IDE that cares about performance. My coworkers are amazed my laptop can run for days because I don't use Electron crap.
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#398I went ahead and downloaded it, it looks to be a VSCode fork very similar to Cursor, with support for the following models: - Gemini 3 Pro (High) - Gemini 3 Pro (Low) - Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) - GPT-OSS 120B (Medium)
I wonder why these forks don't build off Eclipse Theia. Is it because of the Eclipse license?
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#399Just sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)
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#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's fast
I am very sensitive to input latency and performance but after comparing Zed and VS Code for a while I really couldn't find any reason to stick with Zed. It's been a year or so since I last tried it but VSC just lets me do way more while still, IMO, having a nice, clean UI. I never notice any performance or key input latency with VSC.
If you work in a team there are some pretty good remote collaboration tooling built into Zed.