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Post by flashgordon »

traceroute66 wrote: post #305
miroljub wrote: post #299

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Complexity for the sake of complexity is not a goal everyone should be striving for.

> Complexity for the sake of complexity is not a goal everyone should be striving for. THIS ! Go's well maintained stdlib just lets me get on with it. With Rust meanwhile, I have to decide which of thousands of third-party Rust crates is sufficiently en-vogue and well maintained. Most of my coding work is backend stuff that calls a lot of HTTP APIs, parses a lot of JSON and does a lot of crypto. All that is ready-to-…

I always feel like choosing between rust and go is like picking between node (ts/js) and python when it comes to stdlib out-of-the-box-ness!

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Post by giancarlostoro »

brabel wrote: post #300
giancarlostoro wrote: post #241

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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.

Theres a plugin for Claude Code and you can use Claude models from Copilot in IntelliJ. Are those options worse than Zed, especially considering other comments about Zed missing basic editor stuff?

Claude Code in IntelliJ just opens a terminal tab. Claude Code in Zed feels integrated into the editor as if it were a natively supported model.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

hboon wrote: post #252
giancarlostoro wrote: post #241

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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.

JetBrains products has Claude Code integration. Is it worse? I still use Claude Code in cli, as a WebStorm user.

The plugin just opens a terminal whereas in Zed you get a more natively feeling experience. In JetBrains they do support it as one of their agents but now you have to buy into JetBrains AI credit system instead of just using your Claude subscription.

Theres two ways to use Claude Code in JetBrains and instead of helping them make their plugin better they opted to try and make money off of it. Which Zed could have done the same but instead lowered their monthly to let you use your own Claude Code subscription.

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Post by chironjit »

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 would say you're being harsh but their file tree refresh is bad(so is vs code but they have a manual button), their ai panel can't beat Claude code and their panes / window layouts are not any better or flexible than other editors. I still use it but I'm close to going back to vanilla vs code. I'm just hanging on to determine if my frustrations are from me just being used to vs code or otherwise

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Post by colmanhumphrey »

I kind of love this, although I feel like I'd need to try it out to understand exactly how it feels. I'd even like to see a video if Zed could make one. It would be good to understand e.g. if the issue of "who wrote that?" actually affects things in practice, or any other weirdness or limitations.

I also kind of get why it's built into an editor! I wonder how it compares to e.g. https://www.coscreen.co.

The default method of remote work, with e.g. Slack and video meetings, I think leaves a lot of potential on the table. I wonder if a flexible collaboration system like this could actually be a lovely default method for many companies.

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Post by [deleted] »

gkbrk wrote: post #280
marssaxman wrote: post #249

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

Nope, it is the thing where people say "blurry" to describe "blurry". https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme... This is how Zed looks like on my computer too. VSCode manages to render things crisply while Zed is a blurry mess.

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Post by marssaxman »

gkbrk wrote: post #280
marssaxman wrote: post #249

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

Nope, it is the thing where people say "blurry" to describe "blurry". https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme... This is how Zed looks like on my computer too. VSCode manages to render things crisply while Zed is a blurry mess.

Thank you for the example. That shows exactly what I was talking about, so this issue is clearly (at least somewhat) a matter of taste. To my eyes, those VSCode samples look harsh, crudely pixelated like something out of the 1990s, while the Zed samples look like normal anti-aliased text.

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Post by [deleted] »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #266
submeta wrote: post #113

Whenever a product tries to be too many things, it dilutes the core USP. Try to be an excellent code editor. Add extensibility. Done. I get it, you are VC funded, investors want to turn this into a multi billion dollar unicorn. Do not focus on investors, but developers.

As mentioned in the post, Zed's collaboration functionality is its core USP. The entire editor was literally built around it. IIUC their moonshot is to replace the GitHub PR model with something more collaborative and granular.

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Post by zie »

recroad wrote: post #227
zie wrote: post #197

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On MacOS 10.15, I have 2 monitors plus the built in on a macbook pro, and I have Zed windows on all 3 of them all the time.

You have to open three Zed instances, don't you?

nope. Single zed app instance.
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