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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by adriano_f » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

dimaor wrote: post #37

I'm not sure, it might have changed since, but my personal experience was different. Tried using zed on Linux (pop os, Nvidia) several months ago, was terribly slow, ~1s to open right click context window. I've spent some time debugging this, and turns out that my GPU drivers are not the best with my current pop os release, but I still don't understand how it might take so long and how GPU is related to right clickin…

I also tried Zed on Linux a few months back, and had GPU/driver issues, so it was either slow or didn't run. Tried it just now and it worked right out of the box, and it's incredibly fast.

I will keep playing around with it to see if it's worth switching (from JetBrains WebStorm).

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by rtfeldman » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

nico wrote: post #202

The demo video looks great The free pricing is a bit confusing, it says 50 prompts/month, but also BYO API keys So even if I use my own API keys, the prompts will stop at 50 per month? Also, since it’s open source, couldn’t just someone remove the limit? (I guess that wouldn’t work if the limit is of some service provided by Zed)

Zed employee here - there are no limits if you bring your own API keys!

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

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…

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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dpstart01 » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

Good stuff, but I remember not even having a UI to select among multiple python virtual environments. That killed the deal for me at the time.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

LeafItAlone wrote: post #46

A bit off topic: For work I mostly develop on Python and Typescript. I’ve been using PyCharm Professional for over a decade (after an even longer time with emacs). I keep trying to switch to vscode, Cursor, etc. as they seem to be well liked by their users. Recently I’ve also tried Zed. But the Jetbrains suite of tools for refactoring, debugging, and general “intelligence” keep me going back. I know I’m not the only…

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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

dpstart01 wrote: post #224

Good stuff, but I remember not even having a UI to select among multiple python virtual environments. That killed the deal for me at the time.

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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by ryanmcbride » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:22 PM UTC

satiric wrote: post #185

ryanmcbride wrote: post #180

signed up for the Windows beta hope I get to try it out sometime

The website has said it's "coming soon" for ages now. I wouldn't hold your breath.

Guess I'll just use a competitor then

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by onli » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:23 PM UTC

duped wrote: post #198

ndiddy wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of commenting that it's slow if you don't care about using the program and switched to something else? Also, how is whether the project is volunteer-run relevant? Would you file a support ticket for commercial software you use saying "it's slow" and then when they follow up asking for details about your setup, you say "sorry, you don't get free QA work from me"? Do you really think that would lead to…

The point was contradicting another comment with my own experience, not to putz around with bug reports or trouble shooting. I don't care about Zed fixing anything - they're Zed's issues, not mine. All I'm saying is that contrary to what someone else said about the software being "fast" I tried it and at startup, it was unusably slow. I'm what you would call a failed conversion. > Also, how is whether the project is…

But you run Linux, with its myriad of software configurations. And if this thread is correct Linux support is already far along, if it runs well on something old like the X230. It is not a realistic expectation for any project to work on your hardware if you are not at least willing to report an issue, or rather: No software will run flawlessly on all hardware always, that's not realistic.

Error message, hardware configuration, done.

From my perspective that is not something you do for zed, but something you do for your distro and hardware.

And ofc, your first comment was fine either way. But the attitude of the latter is just poor.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by bee_rider » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:24 PM UTC

SafeDusk wrote: post #127

upcoming-sesame wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you run it in VSC using MCP?

Ideally, just start the server - which is a SSE based and supported by any MCP client out of the box. Then, connect it using this line: `client = MCPClient(server_url=server_url)` ( https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami/blob/e49d3797e6122fb54ddd... ) Happy to help further if you run into issues.

What’s SSE? I guess this isn’t about vectorization.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by volkk » Wed, May 07, 2025, 4:31 PM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #206

volkk wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> what specific documentation do you think are lacking? Tutorials? examples beyond tiny todo app/best practices would be a great start. > Tutorials? That's for users to write. sure, and how's that going for them? there are near zero tutorials out there, and as someone looking to build a desktop tool in rust, they've lost me. maybe i'm not important enough for them and their primary goal is to intellectually gatekeep…

there are literally dozens of examples, including many apps you can reference. come join the discord and check out the showcase channel. I've written and published probably 50-100 examples to show best practices to people who want to learn more. I basically leave zero questions unanswered on that server, unless they are so far out of my wheelhouse that I can't answer them, but even then I might point you to the right…

this is cool! i appreciate the warm invite. I really like your repo! They should include these examples in their primary repo. I did bump into halloy/icebreaker, etc but i just don't really find reading through massive repos a great entrypoint into whether a library/framework makes sense for me. I'll have to seriously look into it again, i do really like a vibrant community, and a lively discord is a nice close second. Thanks!