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Post by johntash »

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…

For me, I was happy using Zed until suddenly an update caused it to crash every time I opened it. It was caused by some sort of issue with graphics drivers on linux I guess.

I just checked the issue [1] and it is fixed now, but it's crazy to me that I never really thought of my text editor needing to use my graphics card for rendering.

[1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37448

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Post by yobert »

xrd wrote: post #220
yobert wrote: post #207

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I agree about the bad side of slack culture, except when compared to how things were before slack: Horrible email threads, in-person meetings, phone calls, and people walking over to your desk to ask you stupid things they could have looked up themselves. Slack revolutionized this for me because I can turn it off anytime I want. When I want focus, I close it and it cannot reach me for some time. Then I pull it up and…

That's a good point. Email is much worse than slack. But I still think it is impossible to manage all the things happening in slack. And the expectation is that it was said in slack, so you should know about it! Whereas, I definitely go through and review PRs and if there is a culture and management agreement around good PRs, then I can easily understand how things work, how things have changed, etc. I never get that…

The topic of "expectation" is really interesting and worth discussing more. I refuse to accept the expectation of slack meaning I am literally always available to message, and also that I must read and keep track of everything in there. If somebody asks me about something and I suspect it might be in slack, I might do search for it to catch up on that topic if I am inclined. But obviously so many people feel the pressure you're describing (to know about everything said in slack)--- which sounds terrible!

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Post by blks »

richardhenry wrote: post #92
blks wrote: post #81

I lost all faith and interest in Zed after they introduced AI features.

I feel the opposite way, but fwiw you can turn off all AI features in Zed by adding `"disable_ai": true` to your settings.json.

Yes, that is correct, but this indicates change of the product direction that make me lost any trust or interest in it. Their core features were done nicely, they should have stayed and developed them, maybe introduce more file editing related functionality.

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Post by bigyabai »

traceroute66 wrote: post #287
rounce wrote: post #225

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> 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... “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” Kidding, but seriously though I’ve found having to work in a container to be a bit clumsy, even with good tooling around it. As you said it’s 2025, and there are other ways to have reproducible toolchains that don’t pollute th…

> “Can I tell you about our lord and saviour Nix?” The "just use Nix" people are just like the "write it in Rust" brigade. And the things both groups promote share exactly the same problem ... A stupidly enormous learning curve. That's why your average person prefers to just the job done in a container vs Nix, or in Go vs Rust. I'm sure Nix is awesome, just like I'm sure Rust is awesome. But honestly, I've got enough…

That's a fine opinion to have. You just have to fight a separate shoggoth of a mutable-root system, which mainstream Linux vendors like Google and Valve have avoided.

It's similar to the Rust situation in that many Rust programmers are simply tired C++ programmers fed-up with using Valgrind and Cmake. Nix is the retirement-home for people who clean up package pollution and just want stability at any cost.

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Post by fragmede »

Shorel wrote: post #290
fragmede wrote: post #41

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Yes, but does it need all the ceremony surrounding it? If, every time I saved the file, the changes were analyzed and committed to git, and a useful commit message included, and commits squashed automatically and pushed and tested and tagged (using magic, let's say); if the system existed in the background, seamlessly, how would our interactions with source control and with other developers look?

> if the system existed in the background, seamlessly, how would our interactions with source control and with other developers look? They would look like noise. You would be the source of that noise. One commit per edit? Nonsense. Me and any other developer would hate to share a repository with you.

ye gods, have you never heard the word squash?

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Post by girvo »

marssaxman wrote: post #318
gkbrk wrote: post #280

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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.

No other editor or app that I use on macOS looks like this. None. This is not just AA, I like properly AA’d text.

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Post by girvo »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #206
girvo wrote: post #192

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I know this is silly but the biggest thing that’s driving me away from it is how god awfully blurry it looks on my 1440p screen :/

Try the latest version, it should be better Personally, I never registered that as a problem, but I can see the delta in screenshots between versions.

Oh that’s exciting to hear, hopefully it’s better! I’ll give it a shot

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Post by hboon »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #313
hboon wrote: post #252

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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 don…

Thanks. The JetBrains integration sounds lousy!
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