I switched from VSCode to Zed

#1

Post by r4victor » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 1:52 PM UTC

I switched from VSCode to Zed
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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

#2

Post by css_apologist » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

css syntax highlighting has been broken in vs code for years now.

how in the world is this possible in THE web dev editor?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by adzm » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

css_apologist wrote: post #2

css syntax highlighting has been broken in vs code for years now. how in the world is this possible in THE web dev editor?

How is it broken? I'm looking at it working fine right now.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by replete » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

An easy switch for an individual, for an organization the ecosystem is typically too much to give up. Hopefully this changes in a few years.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by RamblingCTO » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

Also made the same switch and very happy. Sometimes Zed (I guess due to claude code?) would hog my CPU, but that's fine by me. Works very well. Had one crash so far due to CC.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by Surac » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

To bad I can not change away from vs code. Most chip manufacturers use the vscode + Addons approach today to give you a toolchain to Programm for your microcontroller. They (thank god) abandon there proprietary IDE attempts and concentrate on chips and compilers again. They found VSCode and now you are required to use this. I’m very unhappy with the situation and on the job hunt to get away from embedded to application programming

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by jazzyjackson » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

adzm wrote: post #3

css_apologist wrote: post #2

css syntax highlighting has been broken in vs code for years now. how in the world is this possible in THE web dev editor?

How is it broken? I'm looking at it working fine right now.

Not OP but I remember working on a team that just put up with nonhighlighted nonintelligent CSS because it was embedded in a handlebars template. Of course there is an extension that's supposed to fix this but it was flaky and broke often. An easy fix was to move CSS to a separate file for import but that was a big change for these guys.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by julik » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:46 PM UTC

I would have switched in a pinch if Zed had their low-DPI font rendering in order. At the moment it just looks bad.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by publicdebates » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

adzm wrote: post #3

css_apologist wrote: post #2

css syntax highlighting has been broken in vs code for years now. how in the world is this possible in THE web dev editor?

How is it broken? I'm looking at it working fine right now.

Not GP, but he's absolutely right, it's been pissing me off for years now. Only thing I can remember off the top of my head is nested selectors still not highlighting properly. They partially fixed this a few months ago but that's it. I guess we're all waiting on GHCP to prioritize and fix it now?

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by zmk5 » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

I really love Zed, but my only issue is the Emacs keybindings they ship doesn’t seem to work as well as the VSCode Emacs extensions. Hopefully they can fix this in newer updates.