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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by airstrike »

Klonoar wrote: post #361
airstrike wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The crate is 100% documented. what specific documentation do you think are lacking? Tutorials? That's for users to write. Calling iced not useful reads like an uninformed take

At some point you will need to realize that the endless people commenting about the lack of documentation is an issue with Iced, and the proverbial head in the sand approach will not help you. UI frameworks typically need more than just the type of documentation that Rust docs provide. We see this with just about every UI framework around. Just write some tutorials already.

I'm not a maintainer or a member of the project, just an interested user.

Tutorials might be nice, but the library is evolving fast. I'm happier the core team spent time working on an animations API and debugging (including time travel) since the last release instead of working on guides for beginners.

Maybe that changes after 1.0.

Until then, countless users have learned to use it. Also iced is more a library than a framework. There's no right answer to the problems you'll be trying to solve, so writing guides on "best practices" is generally unhelpful if not downright harmful.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by baby »

SafeDusk wrote: post #84

Tried Zed and Cursor, but they always felt too magical to me. I ended up building a minimal agent framework that only uses seven tools (even for code edits): read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think. These simple, composable tools can be utilized well enough by increasingly powerful LLM(s), especially Gemini 2.5 pro to achieve most tasks in a consistent, understandable way. More importantly - I can just swi…

what is "think"?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by wrcwill »

DreaminDani wrote: post #347
keybits wrote: post #3

For people who have tried the new agent panel in Zed, how does it compare to something like Cursor or Windsurf? (I've yet to dive deep into AI coding tools and currently use Zed as an 'open source Sublime Text alternative' because I like the low latency editing.)

I'd say it's closer to Claude Code than to either of the two IDE-oriented ones. I say this because it actually does the right thing more often than either Cursor or Windsurf. It gathers the right context, asks for feedback when needed and has yet to "go back and forth between two failing solutions" like I've seen Cursor do. I don't know what Zed's doing under the hood but the diffing tool has yet to fail on me (compa…

what about the vscode agent? is there a reason it is never in the conversation? I thought they added an agent early 2025?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by CuriousRose »

maxbrunsfeld wrote: post #243
porsager wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish they would have stayed with the collaborative part a bit longer. Once the AI wave hit it feels abandoned with various bugs and hard to reproduce issues. I am a full time zed user converting from sublime only due to the collaborative features, but by now we don't even use the collaborative features anymore because it's unreliable (broken connections, sounds, overwriting changes, weird history/undo behavior), so…

Yeah, we plan to revisit the collaboration features; it was painful but we decided we needed to pause work on it while we built out some more highly-requested functionality. We still have big plans for improving team collaboration!

It would be interesting to (optionally) make the AI agent more like an additional collaborative user, sharing the chat between users, allowing collaborative edits to prompts, etc.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by SafeDusk »

baby wrote: post #372
SafeDusk wrote: post #84

Tried Zed and Cursor, but they always felt too magical to me. I ended up building a minimal agent framework that only uses seven tools (even for code edits): read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think. These simple, composable tools can be utilized well enough by increasingly powerful LLM(s), especially Gemini 2.5 pro to achieve most tasks in a consistent, understandable way. More importantly - I can just swi…

what is "think"?

It is based off https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-think-tool.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by int_19h »

dimaor wrote: post #365
constantcrying wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. It works incredibly well under Linux. Nvidia drivers in particular are terrible on Linux, so what OP is describing is likely some compatibility/version issue.

maybe you right, but it was weird that everything else was working perfect. rendering engines, games, other graphic things... that is why I commented, since was disappointed a bit

They use Vulkan, which I suspect is still rather uncommon for Linux apps in general.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

sapiogram wrote: post #175
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.

Thank you, I bring this up in every Zed thread on the internet, hopefully the devs will eventually fix it. Until they do, Zed is simply unusable on regular-DPI displays, at least in light mode. See these screenshots: Example Zed screenshot, using "Ayu Light": https://i.ibb.co/Nr8SjvR/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-11-10... Same code in VS Code: https://i.ibb.co/YZfPXvZ/Screenshot-from-2024-07-28-13-13-41...

I think it's a combination of using a Zed theme with insufficiently high text contrast, missing subpixel font rendering in Zed, and possibly more gamma correction and less stem darkening than you're used to.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

naikrovek wrote: post #148
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.

shrink the zed window by one pixel horizontally and one pixel vertically. there's a video on that issue page which shows resizing making the font go in and out of focus, and that tells me that there's something dividing the window height and width by 2 and starting the font rendering there. if you divide by 2 and you get .5, you'll see the blurriness. if you make the window 1 pixel wider you won't get x.5 anymore, yo…

This smells like a fractional DPI scaling issue.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by atonse »

I have launched Zed probably once a week for the past few months to try it out (each time running updates to see what's improved). I so badly want a native editor like this one to succeed. But the UX just seems very difficult to use. For a while, there were no settings UIs, and you had to edit everything in JSON. I think that's still true. But fine.

Now I'm excited that they actually have a Cursor-like agentic mode.

But the suggestions are still just nowhere near as "smart" as the ones from Cursor. I don't know if that's model selection or what. I can't even tell which model is being used for the suggestions.

Today I'm trying to use the Agentic stuff, I added an MCP server, and I keep getting non-stop errors even though I started the Pro trial.

First error: It keeps trying to connect to Copilot even though I cancelled my Copilot subscription. So I had to manually kill the Copilot connection.

Second Error: Added the JIRA MCP (it's working since Zed lists all the available tools in the MCP) and then asked a basic question (give me the 5 most recent tickets). Nope. Error interacting with the model, some OAuth error.

Third Weirdness (not error): Even though I'm on a Pro trial, the "Zed" agent configuration says "You have basic access to models from Anthropic through the Zed Free AI Plan" – aren't I on a Pro trial? I want to give you money guys, please, let me do that. I want to encourage a high performance editor to grow.

I'm not even trying to do anything fancy. I just am on a pro trial. Shouldn't this be the happiest of happy paths? Zed should use whatever the Pro stuff gives you, without any OAuth errors, etc. How can I help the Zed team debug this stuff? Not even sure where to start.

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