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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by samtheprogram »

duped wrote: post #76
signorovitch wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been using Zed a few months on my fedora laptop (thinkpad x230) and haven’t had any performance issues. Definitely faster than any other graphical editor I’ve used. Perhaps a driver issue would be slowing it down?

Maybe, but no other application or editor has this problem. If all other apps work but Zed doesn't then it sounds like a Zed has an issue. EDIT: just gave it a shot and I get "unsupported GPU" as an error, informing me that my GPU needs Vulkan support. Their detection must be wrong because this is not true. And like I said, other applications don't have this problem.

You should report an issue with your specs, not just say “other applications don’t have this problem” — especially as a Linux user.

For one, not all applications are GPU accelerated.

Two, their UX may need to be improved for a specific hardware configuration. I have used Zed with good performance on Intel dGPU, AMD dGPU, and Intel iGPU without issue — my guess is a missing dependency?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by wqtz »

The pricing page: https://zed.dev/pricing

The pricing page was not linked on the homepage. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't but it surely was not obvious to me.

Regardless of how good of a software it is or pretends to be I just do not care about landing pages anymore. Pricing page essentially tells me what I am actually dealing with. I knew about Zed when it was being advertised as "written in rust because it makes us better than everyone" trend everyone was doing. Now, it is LLM based.

Absolutely not complaining about them. Zed did position themselves well to take the crown of the multi billion dollar industry AI code editors has become. I had to write this wall of text of because I just want to just drop the pricing page link and help make people make their own decision, but I have to reply to "whats your point" comments and this should demonstrate I have no point aside from dropping a link.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by spongebobstoes »

duped wrote: post #76
signorovitch wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been using Zed a few months on my fedora laptop (thinkpad x230) and haven’t had any performance issues. Definitely faster than any other graphical editor I’ve used. Perhaps a driver issue would be slowing it down?

Maybe, but no other application or editor has this problem. If all other apps work but Zed doesn't then it sounds like a Zed has an issue. EDIT: just gave it a shot and I get "unsupported GPU" as an error, informing me that my GPU needs Vulkan support. Their detection must be wrong because this is not true. And like I said, other applications don't have this problem.

I had the same issue with my nvidia gpu but resolved it with the fix in this thread: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14088

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by jamienicol »

andrepd wrote: post #104
volkk wrote: post #23

Zed is exactly how software should be made. Granted, I don't agree with all of their UX decisions (i think the AI panel is really bad compared to Cursor's), but good lord is the thing fast. These guys are the real deal. They built a rendering system (GPUI) in Rust before building Zed on top of it, and so it is one of the fastest (if not the fastest) pieces of software that resides on my computer. I can't wait until G…

Honestly, miss me withy the AI shit. I just want an open-source Sublime Text that has first-class support for LSP.

You can not use it. I rarely do, but I love zed, it's fast and the LSP (rust and clangd in my case) just work

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by gyre007 »

From my experience Zed agents oftn just goes and edits your files without your asking it to. Even if you ask questions about codebase, it assumes you want it to be changed. For it to be useful it must be better at understanding prompts; I would also like it to generate diffs like it does but prompt me if I want to apply them first

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by freehorse »

senko wrote: post #33
ammmir wrote: post #12

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…

> I got fed up with the entire AI panel being an editable area, so sometimes I ended up clobbering it. They fixed that with the new agent panel, which now works more like the other AI sidebars. I was (mildly) annoyed by that too. The new UI still has rough edges but I like the change.

Interesting. I actually like the editable format of the chat interface because it allows fixing small stuff on the fly (instead of having to talk about it with the model) and de-cluttering the chat after a few back and forths make it a mess (instead of having to start anew), which makes the context window smaller and less confusing to the model, esp for local ones. Also, the editable form makes more sense to me, and it feels more natural and simple to interact with an LLM assistant with it.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by level87 »

divan wrote: post #22

Meanwhile I'm checking Helix editor every 6 month to see if authors became any less hostile to the idea of thinking about considering of starting thinking about potentially adding copilot support. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/4037

I love Helix, not fussed about this at all, happy to use a robust editor that doesn't have hundreds of plugins barely holding it together.
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