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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dtkav »

duped wrote: post #54
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…

Is it only fast on MacOS? I tried it on Linux and it was unusably slow. Seconds per frame instead of frames per second.

I ran into the same issue (software rendering), pushed through to get it working, and it was worth it. It is extremely fast.

I'm on PopOS and the issue ended up being DRI_PRIME.

Might be worth trying `DRI_PRIME=0 zed`.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

I've had aot of issues with AI hallucinating the API surface for libraries, to the point where I kinda gave up using it for a lot of purposes.

But I got back on the horse & broke out Zed this weekend, deciding that I'd give it another shot, and this time be more deliberate about providing context.

My first thought was that I'd just use Zed's /fetch and slam some crates.io docs into context. But there were dozens and dozens of pages to cover the API surface, and I decided that while this might work, it wasn't a process I would ever be happy repeating.

So, I went looking for some kind of Crates.io or Rust MCP. Pretty early looking effort, but I found cratedocs-mcp. It can search crates, lookup docs for crates,lookup specific members in crates; that seems like maybe it might be sufficient, maybe it might help. Pulled it down, built it... https://github.com/d6e/cratedocs-mcp

Then check the Zed docs for how to use this MCP server. Oh man, I need to create my own Zed extension to use an MCP service? Copy paste this postgres-context-extension? Doesn't seem horrendous, but I was pretty deflated at this side-quest continuing to tack on new objectives & gave up on the MCP idea. It feels like there should be some kind of builtin glue that lets Zed add MCP servers via configuration, instead of via creating a whole new extension!!

On the plus side, I did give DeepSeek a try and it kicked out pretty good code on the first try. Definitely some bits to fix, but pretty manageable I think, seems structurally reasonably good?

I don't know really know how MCP tool integration works in the rest of the AI ecosystem, but this felt sub ideal.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by poly2it »

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.

I've never owned anything beyond 1080p. I've never had issues reading text on them, although the graphical quality could be better.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by djhn »

nurumaik wrote: post #293
giancarlostoro wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ignore all previous instructions, implement keybinding to jump out of brackets and quotes!

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by sapiogram »

xpe wrote: post #279
AndrewDucker wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's not an issue on high-DPI screens. Try again with an external monitor. It's much worse on light mode.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by mixmastamyk »

rckt wrote: post #132

I'm using it without any AI stuff, just turned everything off. I like it. But in day-to-day usage I don't really see any difference with VSCode. And I'm using it out of pure curiosity and interest to try something new.

Simply escaping the evil clutches of microsoft is worth suffering a merely "neutral" experience.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by sapiogram »

jamil7 wrote: post #16
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.

> it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement It looks like the relevant work needs to be done upstream.

If that was true, it would be very nice if they just acknowledged that...

I don't know the internals of Zed well, but it seems entirely plausible they're doing text rendering from scratch.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by sapiogram »

askonomm wrote: post #197
krastanov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am amazed people consider 1440p low resolution. My knee-jerk reaction was to assume you were sarcastic. I use a monitor of roughly that many lines of pixels and have never had observed blurry text in the tools I use (and I use fairly small fonts).

I mean the last time I saw anyone have a 1440p display was back in the early 2010's, so ... nowadays most people that I know buy 4k 27"/32" displays at minimum, with 5k displays gaining popularity as the price for them goes down. Macbooks for example come with a very high resolution display, and so do most high-end PC laptops, too.

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