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Not everyone wants to use a terminal editor and of those people, not everyone wants to use vscode.
Learning a terminal editor will save your ass at 3am when production goes down. No joke.
At 3am i am not in the mood trying to remember where my 714 page how to save a file and exit vim manial is
I went from VS Code to Cursor, then got frustrated with Cursor breaking keybindings and other things, tried to go back to VS Code but missed the superior tab completion. Then I gave Zed a long hard try, but after over a month of daily usage I went back to Cursor again, just for the tab completion quality. I don't use any of the chat or agent features, but for me Cursor's tab completion is a step forward in work effic…
The tab completion is the only thing that keeps me on Cursor. I never cared for the LLM sidebar. But the tab completion is basically mind-reading.
What? Blockchains and Web3 again? Oh no wait... AI
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Learning a terminal editor will save your ass at 3am when production goes down. No joke.
Thats why nano exists. At 3am i am not in the mood trying to remember where my 714 page how to save a file and exit vim manial is
For those that are interested, this will get you 90% there:
exit without saving> :q!
exit with saving> :wq
beginning of line> 0
end of line and edit (enter insert mode)> shift-a
delete line> dd
insert mode> i
stop insert mode> ESC
undo> u
show line numbers> :set number
go to line number (e.g line 5)> :5
I went from VS Code to Cursor, then got frustrated with Cursor breaking keybindings and other things, tried to go back to VS Code but missed the superior tab completion. Then I gave Zed a long hard try, but after over a month of daily usage I went back to Cursor again, just for the tab completion quality. I don't use any of the chat or agent features, but for me Cursor's tab completion is a step forward in work effic…
What an amazing selling point! It requires lots of independent thinking (which I value) from founders to refrain from something everyone else is hitting the gas pedal on.
refrain? they're going full steam on it. they're just not forcing all their users into it, which reflects taste and empathy few other founders have.
Just look at the amount of excitement in their industry right now. New IDEs are springing up practically by the week. Are any of these new IDEs based on Zed?
No, of course not. GPL closes the door on that, and who would want to own a fork of a tool that's so painful to develop? Developers working on VSCode can probably do an average dev-test cycle in 1-5 seconds. I've no idea how long the Zed dev-test cycle is, but I hear Rust builds are notoriously slow so I assume it's more like 1-5 minutes.
What is the point of this? Surely anyone who (correctly) has moral objections would require a fork getting rid of the code to support it entirely, not just a runtime toggle?
Something tells me that disabling AI is going to age about as well as disabling JavaScript. Even so, I like what Zed is doing here.