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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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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.

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MCP Clients and servers can support both sse or stdio

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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I’m developing in TS and Rust for the most part. Went from Atom, to VSC, to Vim and finally to Zed. Never felt more at home. Highly recommend giving it a try. AFAIK there is overlap between Atoms and Zeds developers. They built Electron to built Atom. For Zed they built gpui, which renders the UI on the GPU for better performance. In case you are looking for an interesting candidate for building multi platform GUIs i…

People have been using editors that look comparable for decades that dont need fancy GPU rendering to be fast and responsive. What is happening that stuff like that is necessary now?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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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.

Well said. "uncrisp" is how I'd describe it as well.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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I’m developing in TS and Rust for the most part. Went from Atom, to VSC, to Vim and finally to Zed. Never felt more at home. Highly recommend giving it a try. AFAIK there is overlap between Atoms and Zeds developers. They built Electron to built Atom. For Zed they built gpui, which renders the UI on the GPU for better performance. In case you are looking for an interesting candidate for building multi platform GUIs i…

People have been using editors that look comparable for decades that dont need fancy GPU rendering to be fast and responsive. What is happening that stuff like that is necessary now?

GPU rendering in some form or another (mostly just bitblitting characters, I guess) has also been common for decades. Classic hardware text mode is basically just that. Also, display densities and sizes have gone up (for some of us).

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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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.

Lol so many people use 1440p, 1660p, even 1080p or 720p and have perfectly crisp text across many programs. If Zed can't figure it out that's on them.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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I interned at zed during the summer of 2022, when the editor was pre-alpha. Nathan, Max, Antonio are great guys and build software with care. I'm happy to see the editor receive the success it deserves, because the team has poured so much world-class engineering work into it. I worked with Antonio on prototyping the extensions system[0]. In other words, Antonio got to stress test the pair programming collaboration te…

Hey! I was reading your extensions code a lot. The backwards compatibility is done in a smart way. Several layers of wit and the editor makes the choice based on wasm headers which one to choose.

I learned something from that code, cool stuff!

One question: how do you handle cutting a new breaking change in wit? Does it take a lot of time to deal with all the boilerplate when you copy things around?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

#277

I’m developing in TS and Rust for the most part. Went from Atom, to VSC, to Vim and finally to Zed. Never felt more at home. Highly recommend giving it a try. AFAIK there is overlap between Atoms and Zeds developers. They built Electron to built Atom. For Zed they built gpui, which renders the UI on the GPU for better performance. In case you are looking for an interesting candidate for building multi platform GUIs i…

People have been using editors that look comparable for decades that dont need fancy GPU rendering to be fast and responsive. What is happening that stuff like that is necessary now?

The first time I used Zed, I really noticed and appreciated the very low latency between a keypress and visual result. It created a great sense of “connection” to the experience. (I’ve previously used VS Code, Emacs, Sublime Text, JetBrains, and others)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

#278

Tried Zed and Cursor, but they always felt too magical to me. I ended up building a minimal agent framework that only uses seven tools (even for code edits): read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think. These simple, composable tools can be utilized well enough by increasingly powerful LLM(s), especially Gemini 2.5 pro to achieve most tasks in a consistent, understandable way. More importantly - I can just swi…

Zed and Cursor are very different; I wouldn’t put them in the same bucket myself. I’ve been using the Zed AI assistant panel for a while (manual control over the context window by including files and diagnostics) — will try the new agentic panel soon.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

#279

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.

Several replies saying that the issue is with the monitor. When the issue has an example showing Zed next to VS Code, and you can see that Zed is much blurrier: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/5507503/9883d38...

No issues on macOS for me on my MBP 16”. Probably the default resolution setting I think. What platform + resolution for you?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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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

That honestly makes me want to check out Helix. I'm so tired of seeing AI get forced into everything that "we won't add that" is a feature to me.

I can understand that, and it's great if it fits your needs. It's annoying when apps that just have to do one thing and do it well instead are focusing on hype features. My recent rant is about Warp terminal that has a "different font size for different tabs" issue open for years, but silently integrated all sorts of AI into the terminal.

And yet, it's hard to ignore the fact that coding practices are undergoing a one-in-a-generation shift, and experienced programmers are benefiting most from it. Many of us had to ditch the comfort of terminal editors and switch to Microsoft's VSCode clones just to have these new incredible powers and productivity boosts.

Having AI code assistants built into the fast terminal editor sounds like a dream. And editors like Helix could totally deliver here if the authors were a bit more open to the idea.

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