Slashdotted :)
Here's a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260105144155/https://tenthousa...
I switched from VSCode to Zed
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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
It blows my mind that the most ubiquitous computer screen resolution worldwide is considered too niche for decent support by the Zed project. Hopefully that will change in 2026?
I do not doubt some people experience some issues, but I have regularly used zed with 1080p and 1440p 24" monitors (on macos) and I never experienced any font rendering problem. Saying "zed does not render fonts at low dpi monitors well" is a bit of an exaggeration.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#143Slashdotted :) Here's a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260105144155/https://tenthousa...
Weird it's a static site that still got hugged to death.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#144I am finding that AI assisted coding is greatly reducing my interest and reliance on "IDE" type features. A back and forth "conversation" with Gemini with extreme amounts of copying/pasting/executing in Geany (a relatively simple editor) is now faster than whatever I was trying to do before, hopping between emacs and vim and IDES, etc.
I wish AI had more access IDE-type features such as renaming or moving methods to another class. Claude often makes mistakes here because it doesn't have all the fancy tooling and indexing that IntelliJ has.
Claude recently got LSP plugins
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#145Sublime is quite good. I have always been using sublime for quick edits, dumping notes etc. But lately I came to appreciate it more as a lightweight IDE. I use go (lsp and some plugins) and ST (sqltools) in addition to package manager and project manager. I like how fast it is, how well polished the editor is. And generally all plug-ins i use work nicely. Also claude helped a lot (eg writing some shortcuts for specif…
I do love how Sublime Text doesn't even blink after getting huge file, where most other editors struggle. And overall speed and responsiveness is unbelievable. I would really like to see any other editor trying to overtake Sublime Text on those metrics.
You can compare speed of ST with CudaText.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#146I've been using vim for 20 years. It's gotten me through all the evolutions of programming, from ctags, to language servers, to AI with copilot.
There's something extremely satisfying about having a dependable free software editor, available on all systems, and not having to change every time a new fad comes in, or a VC decides it's time to make money.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#147I'm happily using Zed for a few weeks now. What prompted me to evaluate it was it being written (mostly) in rust, so expected better performance and stability and I got that (UI redraws are stupid fast compared to VSCode), but I wanted to migrate my agentic code flow too.
I was pleasantly surprised to basically configure-and-use the AI part: GitHub Copilot login and use, MCP servers, custom MCP servers. VSCode made this part really annoying: Copilot would blow up every now and then, MCP server auto-starting is not there yet and you need an extension (which works for 8 things out of 10), I haven't even tried adding a custom server because I was already annoyed. In Zed I just copy-pasted the suggested custom server start-up command into the small JSON array it presents to add a custom server, and it just started the MCP server in a custom thread, no fuss. Autostart works reliably every time the editor is re-opened.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#148This article struck a personal chord with me: I bought a new MacBook a week ago and installed minimal software on it, specifically I did not install VSCode and I don’t miss it. I use Emacs exclusively on my new laptop. I have about 40 years experience with Emacs and except for a treemacs automations, I am using my regular setup. VSCode is a great project but I just didn’t feel “happy” while I was using it. I feel hap…
Also started using emacs (doom) a couple of months ago, after realizing that jetbrains and vscode are going to be AI-shittified, and there is no turning back.
At this point, I would recommend to every coder worth his salt to just jump to vim/neovim or emacs, these editors will be around for the next 1000 years and you wont need to fight against some BS features and you wont need to switch ever egain. The 1-2 month learning curve is worth it!
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium Isnt vscodium a specific product built strictly from open-source VS Code source code? It's not affiliated with Microsoft, they simply build from the same base then tweak it in different ways. This is somewhat unlike my understanding of Chromium/Chrome which is similar to what you described.
The clearest explanation I've seen is on VSCodium's Why page: https://vscodium.com/#why
You might be misunderstanding, you said in your comment:
> I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium, and then adding in their own branded features
This part isn't true, MS and VSCodium both build their releases upon https://github.com/microsoft/vscode, but MS does not build VSCodium at all.
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#150I have switched to terminal
Do you mean a terminal-based editor, like emacs, vim, neovim, or helix? (I quite like the latter, after having used all the former to some degree.) Or do you mean line-editors? They have gotten impressively good. See rustyline (based on linenoise) and reedline (not a typo; developed by the Nushell team) for example. Way better than one might expect! [1]: https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline [2]: https://github.com/a…
Sorry to disappoint. But purely codex and claude code