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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by kubik369 »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

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.

If you are using MacOS, unfortunately, your issue is that you are using a 1440p monitor, not an issue with any one program.

Apple has removed support for font rendering methods which make text on non-integer scaled screens look sharper. As a result, if you want to use your screen without blurry text, you have to use 1080p (1x), 4k (2x 1080p), 5k (2x 1440p) or 6k screens (or any other screens where integer scaling looks ok).

To see the difference, try connecting a Windows/Linux machine to your monitor and comparing how text looks compared to the same screen with a MacOS device.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by senko »

ammmir wrote: post #12

I was using Zed up until a few months ago. I got fed up with the entire AI panel being an editable area, so sometimes I ended up clobbering it. I switched to Cursor, but now I don't "trust" the the editor and its undo stack, I've lost code as a result of it, particularly when you're in mid-review of an agentic edit, but decide to edit the edit. The undo/redo gets difficult to track, I wish there was some heirarchical…

> I got fed up with the entire AI panel being an editable area, so sometimes I ended up clobbering it.

They fixed that with the new agent panel, which now works more like the other AI sidebars.

I was (mildly) annoyed by that too. The new UI still has rough edges but I like the change.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by lordofgibbons »

askonomm wrote: post #14
lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

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.

Literally every other editor and application besides Zed seem to be working just fine.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dimaor »

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 clicking.

Switched back to emacs, love every second. :)

I'm not sure if title referring to actual development speed or the editor performance.

p.s. I play top games on Linux, all is fine with my GPU & drivers.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by mirawelner »

It’s funny that they lead with AI tools. I love zed because it’s fast, customizable, has a clean interface and it’s easy to pair program. The LLM bit is just an annoying thing I shut off because imo I’m too junior at the moment to use LLMs

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by two_handfuls »

lopatin wrote: post #20
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

obviously tongue-in-cheek

Humans haven’t been around for millions of years though. Or is that part of the cheekiness?

Homo Abilis, 2 million years ago, used stone tools.

Yes it's not the modern human but I think that's close enough.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by volkk »

cies wrote: post #29
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…

> because the other Rust GUI libraries/frameworks aren't great. Iced, being used by System76's COSMIC EPOCH, is not great in what regards? Serious question.

there's basically zero documentation for Iced as it stands. They even wrote that if you're not a great Rust dev, you're going to have a bad time and that all docs are basically "read the code" until their book is written. I'm glad System76 is able to build using Iced, but you need a great manual for a tool to be considered mature and useful.

IMO Slint is milestones ahead and better. They've even built out solid extensions for using their UI DSL, and they have pages and pages of docs. Of course everything has tradeoffs, and their licensing is funky to me.

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