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Re: Zed is our office

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Post by giancarlostoro » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 1:36 AM UTC

tecoholic wrote: post #171

BinaryPie wrote: post #102

I generally like what Zed is trying to become. However, all of these features and blog posts are frustraing when they struggle to keep basic editor features stable. Edit a file outside of the editor? It's not going to show up in the project pane or the git diff. Need to work inside a container because it's 2025 and we don't need to clutter our local machine with 100s of dependencies and env managers... well now all t…

With the AI stuff, it feels like they invested a bit prematurely. When the Agentic editing demo came out (6 months, 10 months ago? It’s a blur), it felt right. Accepting and reviewing edits, live tracking ..etc., felt like pair programming. The ACP addition felt like a natural evolution . With the continuous improvement in CLI tools and people’s experience with them, it feels like doing a live review or edit-by-edit…

I used to only use JetBrains for AI stuff, now I just open everything in Zed because of its Claude Code integration. Especially with the linters and other nice to haves. I am insanely close to cancelling JetBrains.

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by jabbywocker » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 1:50 AM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #156

pprotas wrote: post #140

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Yea you’re thinking of Ghostty, this topic is about Zed, which is not related. In fact Zed uses Alacritty for their terminal, I wish it was Ghostty!

Zed is sticking to all Rust, it appears, so Ghostty wouldn't work. Also Ghostty has a lot more UI features itself like tabs etc so I don't think it's as easy to integrate in an editor which also has its own UI, so Alacritty being mainly TUI driven makes more sense.

Mitchell has released libghostty which is the core terminal features for this type of embedding

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by iamnbutler » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 1:52 AM UTC

I don't work at zed anymore but I do find it funny that anyone would think that the collaboration features of zed are "tacked on"...

We started building zed in zed using it's collaboration in early 2021. Collaboration has always been part of it's DNA. Nearly everything at zed is written in pairs over collab.

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by jabbywocker » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 1:59 AM UTC

fallat wrote: post #219

cipehr wrote: post #190

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...doesn't mean there is a right or wrong either :)

...but it does mean there is a corporate controlled program that can back stab you at any moment!

Same thing could happen with non corporate open source

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by kombine » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

I'm now more convinced that I made the right choice to invest in Neovim.

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by bloppe » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 2:16 AM UTC

I love Zed as an idea. They built some impressive tech. They're clearly a smart and capable bunch. I tried zed out for a bit, then I switched back to vscode.

I'm just too hooked on that OpenVSX ecosystem.

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by phcreery » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

qmr wrote: post #236

girvo wrote: post #192

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I know this is silly but the biggest thing that’s driving me away from it is how god awfully blurry it looks on my 1440p screen :/

So they're optimizing for 1080p or 4k? No settings to adjust?

optimized for HiDPI screens (like those on Apple devices)

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by phyzix5761 » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 2:25 AM UTC

BinaryPie wrote: post #102

I generally like what Zed is trying to become. However, all of these features and blog posts are frustraing when they struggle to keep basic editor features stable. Edit a file outside of the editor? It's not going to show up in the project pane or the git diff. Need to work inside a container because it's 2025 and we don't need to clutter our local machine with 100s of dependencies and env managers... well now all t…

I agree with you. Zed has a great vision and the team clearly cares, but the foundation still feels a bit shaky. Stability in core workflows matters more than any flashy feature, especially for people who just need their editor to disappear into the background. What gives me hope is that the community feedback is loud and consistent. If the team focuses on tightening the fundamentals, Zed could still become the lightweight but powerful editor everyone hoped for. I’m rooting for them, and like you, I’m ready to give it another full try once the basics feel rock solid.

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by marssaxman » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

phcreery wrote: post #247

qmr wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So they're optimizing for 1080p or 4k? No settings to adjust?

optimized for HiDPI screens (like those on Apple devices)

ohhh... is this that thing where people say "blurry" to describe anti-aliasing, because they actually want it to be pixelated?

Re: Zed is our office

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Post by roland35 » Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

valtism wrote: post #238

sunnyps wrote: post #98

> Despite attempts to make Atom—an Electron application—more responsive, it never reached the performance standards the team yearned for. This feels like an attempt at deflecting blame. VSCode is another Electron application that ended up having better performance than Atom. There's another Electron adjacent application that has good performance , the one you're probably using right now to read this page. Depending o…

VSCode has good performance, especially for how feature complete it is, but it really has nothing on the boot speed of Zed

Boot speed is nice and all but in general I boot once and I'm done!