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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by trevorhinesley »

krastanov wrote: post #18
askonomm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Are you using enlarged text or native 1440p? If the latter, have you used 4k or retina displays in the past? It’s hard to go back after that.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by volkk »

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 GPUI becomes a bit more mature/stable so I can build on top of it, because the other Rust GUI libraries/frameworks aren't great.

edit: they updated the AI panel! looking good!

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by hu3 »

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.

> many don't bother doing.

Apparently all editors bothered doing, except Zed.

From the Issue:

> Zed looks great on my MacBook screen, but looks bad when I dock to my 1080p monitor. No other editor has that problem for some reason.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by barrenko »

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.

Not sure if it's related, but I've built Zed from source to try on Windows (I haven't tried it on other platforms), and it does not look good sadly, it's also quite a bit "uncrisp" or something - I don't really have the words to describe.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nba456_ »

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

This is exactly why I bounced off Helix a while ago. No copilot and endless bikeshedding for plugin development.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by MonstraG »

trevorhinesley wrote: post #21
krastanov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Are you using enlarged text or native 1440p? If the latter, have you used 4k or retina displays in the past? It’s hard to go back after that.

Native 1440p, never used retina nor 4k.

(not parent commenter, but hold same opinion)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by ribelo »

gempir wrote: post #19

Wish it could use OpenRouter

You can, but not together with openai:

``` "openai": { "api_url": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", "version": "1", "available_models": [ { "name": "anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet:beta", "max_tokens": 200000 }, ... ```

Just change api_url in the zed settings and add models you want manually.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by cies »

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…

> because the other Rust GUI libraries/frameworks aren't great.

Iced, being used by System76's COSMIC EPOCH, is not great in what regards? Serious question.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by maleldil »

krastanov wrote: post #18
askonomm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

How big is your screen? At 27", I can clearly see pixels on 1440p. A 4k display with 150% scaling (effectively 1440p) looks much better. Maybe you haven't used a higher resolution? If so, you might not know what you're missing.
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