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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by camjw »

outcoldman wrote: post #7

I am amazed how well it works. Yesterday I have spent a full day with a new macOS project with idea in my head. Spend half a day writing basic features, and after that opened the project in Zed to add features. Not very well documented things like AppKit + SwiftUI integration - no issues, and I mean I was getting about 500 new lines from my questions and was getting compilable code (and working). A few times after re…

a bit offtopic but whats your workflow for building macos products using a different editor to xcode? i am new to this and xcode seems awful (?)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by ammmir »

I was using Zed up until a few months ago. I got fed up with the entire AI panel being an editable area, so sometimes I ended up clobbering it. I switched to Cursor, but now I don't "trust" the the editor and its undo stack, I've lost code as a result of it, particularly when you're in mid-review of an agentic edit, but decide to edit the edit. The undo/redo gets difficult to track, I wish there was some heirarchical tree view of history.

The restore checkpoint/redo is too linear for my lizard brain. Am I wrong to want a tree-based agentic IDE? Why has nobody built it?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by askonomm »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

1440p monitor would probably be why the text is blurry - there simply isn't enough pixels to make things smooth without resorting to special hacks to improve LowDPI text rendering, which with more and more displays being HiDPI many don't bother doing.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by jamil7 »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

> it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement

It looks like the relevant work needs to be done upstream.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by xmorse »

bmulholland wrote: post #4

I'm curious what others' experiences have been with this. I haven't tried it out yet. Is it comparable to Cursor's capabilities? More on par with VS Code Copilot? Something else entirely?

Basically same level as Cursor, one thing missing is the Apply Cursor model which sometimes makes better edits in the code

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by krastanov »

askonomm wrote: post #14
lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

1440p monitor would probably be why the text is blurry - there simply isn't enough pixels to make things smooth without resorting to special hacks to improve LowDPI text rendering, which with more and more displays being HiDPI many don't bother doing.

I am amazed people consider 1440p low resolution. My knee-jerk reaction was to assume you were sarcastic. I use a monitor of roughly that many lines of pixels and have never had observed blurry text in the tools I use (and I use fairly small fonts).
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