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I want to try Zed, but it's just too much of a supply chain attack waiting to happen. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 I did install it in a VM with virtio-gpu, but it was absurdly slow, so I wasn't able to try it.
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Currently on this machine: using 900MB of RAM, including all language servers, with nine open projects - that is pretty phenomenal. VSCode could barely keep one open with the same memory. The perception of 'fast' is very subjective. To me having a smooth, jitter-free UI, low input latency, and instant startup, all matter a lot.
It's amazing that a gig of ram is considered lightweight for having 8 project dirs open in an editor, which normally means 8 tree views and a few open file tabs per project :)
Congrats! My daily driver is Zed developing on SSH remote servers on exe.dev. It's crazy to think of all the dev tools I've churned through over the last 18 months but these two feel sticky. Zed has everything I need in a unified pane. File editor, terminal, agents, SSH remotes. And it's fast and intuitive exe.dev is the first "dev container" I've ever *loved*. The remote sandbox means `dangerously-skip-permissions`…
How does exe.dev differ from VPS + Caddy + some subdomain on a domain you already own? For auth one can use Caddy and basic auth. Yes it takes a bit of work but it isn’t that bad. Plus zero subscription costs if your VPS is a Raspberry
The difference with exe.dev is multiple VMs. I have over 20 now with isolated apps, branches of the same app, etc.
The editor is so good it has been defining how I work - at first I would quickly copy relevant files into multiple AI chat apps using Text Threads (was quite annoyed when it was replaced by the Agent Panel which at the time made it very awkward to add relevant context and copy text), and now I really can't imagine living without the new Threads Sidebar.
It's not perfect, but whenever something is broken then I know it's just a matter of time before it gets fixed or improved.
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Never thought of Zed as Sublime replacement, but now that you've mentioned – why not? I use Sublime only as blazingly fast temp note taking that doesn't lose them on exit, but I see Zed fits the job perfectly. One less close product hopefully!
yep that lycra wearing bike rider from North Sydney doesn't need more of your money
Does anybody have experience running Claude Code or Codex in Zed?
Congratulations! I’ve been very happy with Zed for the past year or so. I’m hoping the roadmap contains support for even more things that extensions can do, such as rendering images or Markdown in-editor.
Is it targeted for IDE people or vscode users, or is there something else i can benefit from coming from vim?