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Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by chromadon »

nh2 wrote: post #231
giancarlostoro wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Sublime, but I don't want to pay to upgrade from 3 to whatever version it is now, Zed is everything I wanted Sublime to be. Honestly, I wanted VS Code but fully native, and I feel like that's what I'm getting from Zed. I feel like some people will be put off by all the "AI" mentioned by Zed, but you're sleeping on a top tier editor where you can just ignore the AI stuff if you don't want it. It's very high qua…

I tried Zed last month but found that it uses high CPU usage even when idle (up to 50% of 1 core of my i7-7500U). This is even higher CPU usage than my vscode causes. Sublime does not do that; in fact it has 0% CPU usage when idle: sudo strace -fyp "$(pidof sublime_text)" shows that Sublime issues no syscalls when idle, as it should be. (Note, you need to either unfocus it so that the caret stops flashing, or switch…

I've found that some of the language servers can really grind up a storm but Zed itself is usually pretty lightweight.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by graphememes »

I would use zed, but I can't get over tabs for terminals and the file explorer doesn't refresh when new files are added from external sources, outside of that it's pretty good.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by serf »

nickelpro wrote: post #222
_verandaguy wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While this comment is overly general (some major editors ship without LSP support built in; many more do not have a sane configuration out-of-the-box), it is useful to learn about them and how your editor of choice integrates with them. The landscape isn't generally intuitive, unfortunately, and while it's getting better, understanding the differences and interop places between LSP, Treesitter, DAP, your editor, and…

This is way too equivocating. You are a craftsman, learn your tools. Could you imagine the equivalent from other professionals? A machinist saying, "Understanding the differences and interop places between the DRO, hand controls, and CNC controls for the lathe can be a big confusing time hog." It takes a couple of hours, and it's a tool you use every single day. Learning how it works is the price of entry, not a moun…

lol ok but where does it stop?

I got into programming long before LSPs and MCPs.

The only craftsmen are the ones at the edge of the lingo tree?

To use your own analogy, as a machinist myself : I can master the concept of the lathe and bow drill without learning simulation-driven CAM, and I would be no less a machinist than the guy pressing buttons on a brand new Haas.

If you work via notepad.exe and assembly with a compiler and linker ready in the next window, fine! the work is what matters.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by athorax »

exographicskip wrote: post #154

Been following zed for at least a year now. Tried switching multiple times from vscode but it's just not feature complete for my use cases. Off top: - no expanding tabs to fill the window until another one is clicked - file picker hides .gitignored files - vertical terminal tabs would be nice - restart doesn't automatically load the previous window (most recent project) - while faster/more responsive than vscode on l…

1. I'm pretty sure setting "Maximum Tabs" does what you want, but not positive.

2. Uncheck "Hide .gitignore" setting and it won't do this.

3. Agreed

4. This is configured in the "Restore on Startup" setting (I think you want "Last Session")

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by dev_l1x_be »

Zed is the only editor I use on a daily basis and VIM. It is fast and renders nicely. I do not need to configure it much, few extra plugins but most of the things are working out of the box.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by wiseowise »

entropyneur wrote: post #258

I've tried switching from JetBrains IDEs just a few days ago. The speed and memory footprint are very impressive. I ended up badly missing refactorings and some other features and configuring a debugging session looked like something that needs more time than I had on my hands. So went back for now. I hope they add more IDE features eventually. There's not much a pure text editor can offer over Emacs after all. But t…

JetBrains should really start investing into porting to Rust/C++ over their bootleg Java.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by rstat1 »

throwa356262 wrote: post #45

Zed seems to have many fans on HN. But it is not for me. Multiple issues on Linux and high memory usage makes it a worse alternative to vscode and jetbrains. Maybe it's better on OSX, but I dont use that anymore and why use an editor that treats your platform as a second class citizen?

So I'm not so sure how you arrived at your conclusion of Zed having higher memory use than VSCODE but in testing just now that's not at all close to true.

Zed for me on my Linux machine opened to a massive C++ project (the Ladybird browser if you were curious) is (not including LSP or extension processes) using around 480MB of memory.

VSCode on the other hand with nothing open but a 20 line JSON file is (again not including any LSP or extension processes) using around 920MB of memory as reported by its own builtin task manager thing.

I suppose 480MB for a text editor might be a tad high but calling it worse than VSCode is a massive stretch.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by __rito__ »

It has replaced VS Code for my for my work and side projects.

I don't use AI tools in 90% of the projects.

It's snappy, fast, everything just works. I have the vim mode turned on while editing.

Re: Zed 1.0

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Post by rawoke083600 »

Congrats on shipping !

I love that most of my (small but important) set of keyboard shortcuts from VSCode jsut works.

- Terminal - Ctrl + P (and siblings).

Suggestion (minor):

To me, font size is as import these days as dark/light mode. Would be cool if basic font-size (ui panel etc, were part of default/first-run config)

Also like that AI is a "first class citizen" it seems on Zed.

Well done guys :)

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