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Zed has a lot of these micro-battles ahead where it has to spend money building solutions that VSCode's community shipped without their core team putting in any effort at all.
So if Zed automatically handles that (where there's a worktree per thread) I can see the appeal. Apart from that, I'm already using Tower to view the changes so I'm not really sure what the value here is.
I tried installing it, and got an error "can't load supported slash commands" – not sure what that means.
The only reason i didnt move to zed from jetbrains yet is the lack of a more mature Git UI. Other than that, great editor, very fast.
I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and…
Zed's main selling point over VSCode for me is the lack of a slight delay between when I press a key and when the character appears. VSCode has always felt ever so slightly sluggish to me, and I find it maddening as I type.
I am sure Zed is great and I appreciate the effort put in to create it, but nowadays I just cannot imagine switching from VSCode to something else. In my limited understanding, none of the existing alternatives offer anything (and often misses at least something) truly innovative or anything else that VSCode extension wouldn't solve. On VSCode I have about 15 different profiles setup, each with different settings and…
It's really interesting point of view. I'm one of those people who avoid using VSCode at any cost. It's slow, it's bloated, the UI is not great, and it's slowly being locked down by Microsoft. If Zed would not exist, I would be using helix, neovim, or emacs as I did before.
It's fast, barebones by default, UI is minimal and it's Open Source enough that competitors forked from it.
I guess YMMV because there is a comment in this post from another user about Zed being sluggish.
I keep trying this editor every few months ever since it was announced, but I always have similar experiences. I remember once I managed to start actually editing something before the GUI started to disappear.
But hey, it has AI.
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It's really interesting point of view. I'm one of those people who avoid using VSCode at any cost. It's slow, it's bloated, the UI is not great, and it's slowly being locked down by Microsoft. If Zed would not exist, I would be using helix, neovim, or emacs as I did before.
Interestingly I disagree with all your points about VSCode. It's fast, barebones by default, UI is minimal and it's Open Source enough that competitors forked from it. I guess YMMV because there is a comment in this post from another user about Zed being sluggish.
Zed was the first one that put me to rethink my position. It is so snappy on my Linux workstation and I don't have any issues with it's GUI. I finally switched from vim et.al.
But I know I have "weird" opinions, I also really dislike Apple products and their software.
Recently I set up a virtual machine running GNU/Linux on Windows, so that I can continue to use Emacs and all my usual tools for developing software, while I am waiting for a friend to make a move in a turn based game. I decided to give Doom Emacs a try. Well, I like the keybindings so far. However, it got issues. When I use neotree, it gets confused with windows (the Emacs term "window", not desktop windows, or the…
I recently un-borked my emacs config and re-downloaded elisp into my brain so I'd be happy to help walking you through the emacs stuff. I haven't used emacs on Windows natively in a long time but I did it for years and found it worked quite well so you may want to try that again. FWIW emacs these days has native LSP support (eglot) and native tree-sitter supported, but you'll need to grab tree-sitter libraries and LS…
I just installed it on my EndeavourOS box. I opened it, it asked my which theme I want. I couldn't click, and suddenly it went into unresponsive mode. A minute later I killed it and uninstalled it. I keep trying this editor every few months ever since it was announced, but I always have similar experiences. I remember once I managed to start actually editing something before the GUI started to disappear. But hey, it…