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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nico »

notpeter wrote: post #281
nico wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome, thank you. I've been trying it for the last few minutes, really liking it. Pretty impressed with how well it works using ollama + qwen3:32b Two nitpicks: 1) the terminal is not picking up my regular terminal font, which messes up the symbols for my zsh prompt (is there a way to fix this?) 2) the model, even though it's suggesting very good edits, and gives very precise instructions with links to the exact pl…

1. You can specify your terminal font via terminal.font_family in zed settings.json 2. Not sure. 3. For most languages, the default is to use prettier for formatting. You can disable `format_on_save` globally, per-language and per project depending on your needs. If you ever need to save without triggering format ("workspace: save without formatting"). Prettier is /opinionated/ -- and its default is `singleQuote` = f…

Thank you for the excellent and informative reply. Will try it out

It would be nice for prettier to throw a user warning before making a ton of changes on save for the first time, and also let them know where they can configure it

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by random3 »

I wanted Zed to work as a high performance dev-enabled Markdown editor as I was looking to replace Obsidian that doesn't scale well (memory use and cursor latency degrades with document size, and generally what I suspect is a weak foundation). My use case is active note taking(PKM) and reviewing including a few large (1-2+ MB) markdown files. However, to my surprise, the performance for Markdown was much worse - it's practically unusable.

This is clearly a Markdown backend problem, but not really relevant in the editor arena, except maybe to realize that the editor "shell" latency is just a part of the overall latency problem.

I still keep it around as I do with other editors that I like, and sometimes use it for minor things, while waiting to get something good.

On this note, I think there's room for an open source pluggable PKM as an alternative to Obsidian and think Zed is a great candidate. Unfortunately I don't have time to build it myself just yet.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nurumaik »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #270
maxbrunsfeld wrote: post #243

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Yeah, we plan to revisit the collaboration features; it was painful but we decided we needed to pause work on it while we built out some more highly-requested functionality. We still have big plans for improving team collaboration!

Not sure what your budget looks like, but maybe its time to look for a new developer if its feasible? So you don't neglect a feature that's already in production and broken.

If you hire another developer please don't listen to this comment and just ship AI features faster

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by bbkane »

random3 wrote: post #292

I wanted Zed to work as a high performance dev-enabled Markdown editor as I was looking to replace Obsidian that doesn't scale well (memory use and cursor latency degrades with document size, and generally what I suspect is a weak foundation). My use case is active note taking(PKM) and reviewing including a few large (1-2+ MB) markdown files. However, to my surprise, the performance for Markdown was much worse - it's…

The thing I really need from my markdown editor is pasting images that then show inline, so I don't have to waste screen space with a "preview pane".

So far the only editor I've found that does this is Typora.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by [deleted] »

porsager wrote: post #238
isaacimagine wrote: post #160

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…

I wish they would have stayed with the collaborative part a bit longer. Once the AI wave hit it feels abandoned with various bugs and hard to reproduce issues. I am a full time zed user converting from sublime only due to the collaborative features, but by now we don't even use the collaborative features anymore because it's unreliable (broken connections, sounds, overwriting changes, weird history/undo behavior), so…

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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by echelon »

porsager wrote: post #238
isaacimagine wrote: post #160

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…

I wish they would have stayed with the collaborative part a bit longer. Once the AI wave hit it feels abandoned with various bugs and hard to reproduce issues. I am a full time zed user converting from sublime only due to the collaborative features, but by now we don't even use the collaborative features anymore because it's unreliable (broken connections, sounds, overwriting changes, weird history/undo behavior), so…

It's absolutely remarkable that these folks are writing this from scratch in Rust. That'll be a long-term killer feature for the editor.

Do you think GPL3 will serve as an impediment to their revenue or future venture fundraising? I assume not, since Cursor and Windsurf were forks of MIT-licensed VS Code. And both of them are entirely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill to continue developing VS Code in the open.

Tangentially, do you think this model of "tool" + "curated model aggregator" + "open source" would be useful for other, non-developer fields? Would an AI art tool with sculpting and drawing benefit from being open source? I've talked with VCs that love open developer tools and they hate on the idea of open creative tools for designers, illustrators, filmmakers, and other creatives. I don't quite get it, because Blender and Krita have millions of users. Comfy is kind of in that space, it's just not very user-friendly.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dcow »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #240
droopyEyelids wrote: post #214

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It seem like bickering at this point, but I do not see how that is a useful signal. I’m genuinely curious what you are getting out of it

So, only positive feedback allowed in this thread? As a Linux user, I am sadly accustomed to some software working in only a just-so configuration. A datapoint that the software is still Mac first development is useful to know. Zed might still be worth trying, but I have to temper my enthusiasm from the headline announcement of, “everything is great”.

Is it even Zed’s fault if your linux system/setup over-eagerly prefers cpu rendered graphics because of old political and religious driver licensing issues?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by random3 »

bbkane wrote: post #294
random3 wrote: post #292

I wanted Zed to work as a high performance dev-enabled Markdown editor as I was looking to replace Obsidian that doesn't scale well (memory use and cursor latency degrades with document size, and generally what I suspect is a weak foundation). My use case is active note taking(PKM) and reviewing including a few large (1-2+ MB) markdown files. However, to my surprise, the performance for Markdown was much worse - it's…

The thing I really need from my markdown editor is pasting images that then show inline, so I don't have to waste screen space with a "preview pane". So far the only editor I've found that does this is Typora.

Try Obsidian, you'll like it. The Markdown editing experience is great and it's overall a good product.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dtkav »

random3 wrote: post #298
bbkane wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing I really need from my markdown editor is pasting images that then show inline, so I don't have to waste screen space with a "preview pane". So far the only editor I've found that does this is Typora.

Try Obsidian, you'll like it. The Markdown editing experience is great and it's overall a good product.

+1 for Obsidian.

If you like Zed's collaboration features, I wrote a plugin that make Obsidian real-time collaborative too. We are very inspired by their work (pre agent panel...). The plugin is called Relay [0].

[0] https://relay.md

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