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Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold. The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significan…
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I use a devcontainer to run Claude Code on a sandbox with all tools and services installed. That way I can run YOLO mode with some safety.
That's quite unnecessary. You could just mount "all tools and services" from your base system without the complicated Dockerfile: https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/ai-agent-sandbox/
Just wanted to mention that some basic Windows-OS keyboard shortcuts don't work, like ALT+F to open the File menu. Also things like ALT+SPACEBAR to bring up the system context menu for the focussed window (the menu with maximise, minimise, close options etc.) do not seem to work. I'm guessing with the DirectX rendering backend, the 'app' is rendered more akin to a video game than a native win32 process. Also after in…
Compared to Sublime Text: RAM: 213 MB Zed 41 MB ST Storage: 406 MB Zed 52 MB ST Startup time: Zed is slower than ST (but only by a few milliseconds). Also when you reopen ST it will remember how you've resized the window from last time whereas Zed won't.
For me, as long as it's better than alternatives it's good enough. Especially if it's not running JS.
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As I said, then any programmer editor is an IDE, including UltraEdit and Notepad++.
Notepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?
Try to use Zed to debug Go code.
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> and a whole video-conferncing and screen-sharing client by default Haha wait what? Are you confusing Zed (the text editor) with something else? Surely it doesn't ship with video conferencing???
I haven't seen video but it does have voice. And similarly I don't think it's screen-share, it's just editor state syncing, so live collaboration. Still quite a lot.
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Notepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?
It has plugins....and about 30 years of ecosystem history. Try to use Zed to debug Go code.
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A 400mb+ install of bloat will upset many people This needs to be justified asap to help people understand and reconsider installing it.
Will it though? I mean it's a lot for a "text editor", but much less than a classical IDE. And 400M is pretty negligible if you're on Windows, where your OS takes up dozens of GB for no reason.
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Yet everyone is complaining on this thread about Zed distribution size, go figure. They should shut up and just buy bigger drives. Ah, they can't on their laptops, bummer. Also try to develop mobile apps with that mentality, https://www.abbacustechnologies.com/why-your-app-keeps-getti...
Precisely. It seems like the people who say storage is cheap assume everyone is using desktop PCs
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No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
If you're using it via RDP then you won't notice any rendering performance issues since RDP itself has terrible rendering performance.