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I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by Shywim »

rcleveng wrote: post #170

I'd love to try Zed, but it's unusable on MacOS ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/20806 seems to be the issue). If that ever gets fixed then I'd look at replacing Sublime (which is still my go-to for quick editing) and then see if it can handle more advanced coding (which one the rotating list of various vscode forks handle today)

So, it's been one year since I use Zed daily, and I didn't encounter this issue, or any other issue for instance, everything is smooth and I never encountered a failure or a crash.

I work on large (everything is relative, though) monorepos, that would probably qualify for this limit, and I remember already did the kind of "workaround" discussed in this issue years ago on this device. I think it's hard to blame the software when the default file limit is so low depending on the languages you work with.

Anyway, if you would encounter this problem, you would have already encountered it with other tools, or else this is fine.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by adhamsalama »

xpe wrote: post #48
bestest wrote: post #13

Switched to Zed from Webstorm. Only issue is Zed has no vertical tab support. Did create a PR but it got rejected as it does not align with their milestones. Well, using it by monkeypatching the dev build after every upstream sync.

I must admit I'm rather ignorant of the vertical tab workflow. I'm curious: when did it click for you? Was VS Code your gateway drug? A web browser?

This is the first time I've seen someone talk about vertical tabs in an editor, but I used to make fun of people using vertical tabs in browsers until I tried it and got used to it, so maybe I should try vertical editor tabs...

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by adhamsalama »

bluecalm wrote: post #100
vegabook wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

am I the only one who is just fine with neovim?

I love it. I have 40 files open in it right now - most of them .c source files with LSP and Treesitter running and it uses 250MB of RAM. Everything works instantly, Telescope is imo the new standard for file navigation (and navigation in general: grep, symbols even neovim shortcuts). Git integration is fantastic as well. I have spent some time configuring it and probably will spend more when I start including more la…

I use Astronvim and it has a not-so-bad debugger support, when it works...

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by hallmason17 »

Trattue wrote: post #130
mark_l_watson wrote: post #57

This article struck a personal chord with me: I bought a new MacBook a week ago and installed minimal software on it, specifically I did not install VSCode and I don’t miss it. I use Emacs exclusively on my new laptop. I have about 40 years experience with Emacs and except for a treemacs automations, I am using my regular setup. VSCode is a great project but I just didn’t feel “happy” while I was using it. I feel hap…

I‘ve been happily using Doom Emacs on Linux as VSCode replacement. When I switched to macOS, I found the experience to be rather slow with significant input lag, though. (And yes, I did use native compilation.) Has something changed in that regard, or did you just accept it?

I had the same issues. I mainly use Doom on my linux machine, but on mac it is distractingly slow. d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus seemed to reduce the lag, but I've had other issues with it, so have gone back to vim.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by rcleveng »

Shywim wrote: post #171
rcleveng wrote: post #170

I'd love to try Zed, but it's unusable on MacOS ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/20806 seems to be the issue). If that ever gets fixed then I'd look at replacing Sublime (which is still my go-to for quick editing) and then see if it can handle more advanced coding (which one the rotating list of various vscode forks handle today)

So, it's been one year since I use Zed daily, and I didn't encounter this issue, or any other issue for instance, everything is smooth and I never encountered a failure or a crash. I work on large (everything is relative, though) monorepos, that would probably qualify for this limit, and I remember already did the kind of "workaround" discussed in this issue years ago on this device. I think it's hard to blame the so…

I use other tools (sublime, vscode, cursor, antigravity, emacs) none have run into this out of the box.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by jaredcwhite »

I've been running "VSCode" via code-server as a self-hosted solution so I can fire up an IDE on any device including my iPad. I still use code-server, but increasingly when I'm at my Mac/Linux desktops (yes I have both!) I have been using Zed and it's gotten really good. The only major feature I miss is a visual Git Graph, but since I can still load code-server when I need that, no biggie.

I was genuinely surprised that I can use Zed to remote into my server and it works great with Ruby tooling like Solargraph LSP and Rubocop. Everything in the UI is refreshingly minimalist and quite snappy. Good stuff.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by kneel25 »

I adore Zed, started on the day of the windows release and never looked back. My theme is perfect, the team works super hard, and I get a nice bit of satisfaction installing their frequent updates in barely over a second.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by fnordlord »

throwfaraway135 wrote: post #70

I tried switching from VScode to Zed but unfortunately it doesn't have Jupyter notebooks and image/video preview which are deal brakers for me. Other pain points: - Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395 - VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better

The VSCode Debugger is the only thing that keeps it installed on my work machine. Lately I've been doing all my editing in Helix and switching over to Xcode for debugging though. It's even more consistent than VSCode, which occasionally leaks memory and blows itself up. I haven't had time to really learn lldb at the command line but it may have to be the next step. The only other thing I miss is VSCode's Find-All/Replace-All because it maintains the include/exclude paths and Helix doesn't (that I know of)

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by insane_dreamer »

koito17 wrote: post #12

I used to be a daily Emacs user (both at work and for personal projects). Since trying out Zed a little over a year ago, now I only use Emacs for Magit and the occasional IRC message through the built-in ERC client. For VS Code users, there's actually a special feature where a subset of VS Code settings can be migrated to Zed settings. Cannot vouch for its stability, but the functionality is there. Sorely missing a R…

> now I only use Emacs for Magit

have you tried lazygit? that's my go-to. Can even run in in a panel inside Zed.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by joshAg »

bpasero wrote: post #131

We maintain a single VS Code setting that allows you to opt out of the AI features provided in VS Code: "chat.disableAIFeatures" (see also: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab... ). If you can still find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time…

just wanted to let you know that this comment is the only reason why i'm using vs code again after about 9 months of not using it at all.
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