I haven’t booted up an editor in a long time but I’ve written lots of software recently (mostly with codex).
Interesting times…
Zed 1.0
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Re: Zed 1.0
#192Congratulations to the Zed team! What a great project.
The newer layout that came along with the parallel agents feature is very nice; even without using parallel agents regularly, this is a breath of fresh air.
Re: Zed 1.0
#193I'd love to see the Alacritty terminal backend swapped out with libghostty (or more likely libghostty-rs). The work Mitchell is doing with Ghostty and the approach Zed has taken seem super aligned. And Mitchell definitely seems to want to make Alacritty an easy target for conversion, he was just talking about being open to help support Warp with it: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049159764261925005
What is Ghostty's advantage over Alacritty?
One would be support for ligatures
Re: Zed 1.0
#194Zed seems to have many fans on HN. But it is not for me. Multiple issues on Linux and high memory usage makes it a worse alternative to vscode and jetbrains. Maybe it's better on OSX, but I dont use that anymore and why use an editor that treats your platform as a second class citizen?
I've personally found it uses significantly less memory on large projects than VSCode. VSCode has historically been nigh-unusable for me on Linux, it gets incredibly sluggish.
Re: Zed 1.0
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Coming from Sublime, I'd never even heard of a Language Server when I first tried Zed. As I recall, disabling particular kinds of warnings required copy-pasting some pretty exotic incantations into my project config. All of it was poorly documented, and it felt like I was doing something nobody expected me to do. Instead, I should have been able to mouse over a particular warning and say "don't warn me again about th…
LSP is how all editors work today and its simplified everything so so much. you should figure them out
AI agents also use LSP to be more efficient with source code [1].
[1]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference#lsp-server...
Re: Zed 1.0
#196I try Zed every few months. I does not yet have everything I need yet, but at some point I think it's going to be the best code editor out there.
Re: Zed 1.0
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love Sublime, but I don't want to pay to upgrade from 3 to whatever version it is now, Zed is everything I wanted Sublime to be. Honestly, I wanted VS Code but fully native, and I feel like that's what I'm getting from Zed. I feel like some people will be put off by all the "AI" mentioned by Zed, but you're sleeping on a top tier editor where you can just ignore the AI stuff if you don't want it. It's very high qua…
> I love Sublime, but I don't want to pay to upgrade from 3 to whatever version it is now I don't know what your financial situation is, but given that the upgrade is an $80 one off payment (a new license is $99), that it's a per-user license (not per-machine), and that there were 8 years between Sublime Text 3 (2013) and Sublime Text 4 (2021) (only major versions require a new license), I personally think it's very…
I can't justify upgrading Sublime if I don't even find myself using ST3 I just don't see what 4 offers that would entice me, and compared to Zed, I get way more out of it.
Re: Zed 1.0
#198I really want to like Zed because they've clearly put so much work into it, but so far I've been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it wit…
This is just a language server problem. I'm sure you can configure whatever language server PHP is using to disable specific warnings, etc.
Editors should take full responsibility of the user experience. The user should not have to care about the existence of language servers.
Re: Zed 1.0
#199I was an early adopter of Zed (private alpha mid-2022) and it's crazy how far they have come in a relatively short space of time. Sadly I stopped using Zed when the push of AI features started to happen (same with Warp terminal) and have since used Gram more. I may have to give Zed another run as I believe you can turn all the AI features off now?
Congrats to the team on 1.0!
Re: Zed 1.0
#200I really want to like Zed because they've clearly put so much work into it, but so far I've been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it wit…
Sidenote: Sublime remembers all tabs even those unsaved. (Software update deletes this memory.)
> Software update deletes this memory.
Are you sure? I believe Sublime preserves all your unsaved tabs even on update.