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I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by reflog »

_sinelaw_ wrote: post #355

I also got tired of the bloat and also prefer working from the terminal. I'm building Fresh [0] [1] as an alternative to VSCode that runs in your terminal, with the main goal being ease-of-use out of the box (not a vi-clone modal editor), for example supports mouse, menu, command palette, etc out of the box. LSP as well. I'm focused on making it easy to use with minimum or zero configuration. [0] https://github.com/s…

Just discovered Fresh recently. IT'S AMAZING. gives a real sublime+turbo pascal vibe. All shortcuts work perfectly. Thank you!

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by NordSteve »

artdigital wrote: post #252
bpasero wrote: post #131

We maintain a single VS Code setting that allows you to opt out of the AI features provided in VS Code: "chat.disableAIFeatures" (see also: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab... ). If you can still find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time…

Btw, Zed has a similar setting to turn off all AI features :)

And I'm sure they'll never forget to connect an AI feature to it.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by sgc »

spartanatreyu wrote: post #303
sgc wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a tool for programmers. Use google + ctrl+f. Not a hill to die on.

How is googling it meant to work when they keep changing what the AI settings are called each month?

Alternatively, use the single setting that was literally just given to you above. That is pretty much as easy as it gets without resurrecting Clippy to help you figure it out. It's not reasonable to expect a massive bloated gui if people have 10k+ settings they are using.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by hoistbypetard »

__jonas wrote: post #218
ashvardanian wrote: post #210

I’m currently using a mix of Zed, Sublime, and VS Code. The biggest missing piece in Zed for my workflow right now is side-by-side diffs. There’s an open discussion about it, though it hasn’t seen much activity recently: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770 Stronger support for GDB/LLDB and broader C/C++ tooling would also be a big win. It’s pretty wild how bloated most software has become. Huge th…

I agree with that comment chain about the intelliJ diff view so much https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770#disc... I don't even need that to be built into the editor – I would pay for a fast, standalone git UI that is as good as the IntelliJ one. I use Sublime Merge right now and it's kind of ok but definitely not on the same level

I mostly use git from the terminal, but the goodness of the IntelliJ UI for cherry-picking changes is one of the things that has me maintaining my toolbox subscription. Also, IdeaVim is a really solid vim implementation, IMO.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by ben-schaaf »

biztos wrote: post #319
debugnik wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and its predecessor, forgot the name TextMate? It's been surprisingly influential for an editor I've never seen anyone use; maybe in the US, where people actually buy Mac, it was different.

I was a big TM user who ended up on ST because I needed more of the community integrations and so on... which are now turning into a weakness of ST. I'm still on SublimeText because I can't deal with the sluggishness of VS Code, and I'll pay for the latest version, but I am starting to worry about the future of what is still a great editor. Rust coding in particular is a bit of a nightmare. The sad thing is that both…

> or maybe it's solo dev pretending to be small business, I can't really tell.

Certainly small business :)

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by barrenko »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #304
barrenko wrote: post #296

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Could you provide some detail on how you use it (the AI features)?

I just have a minimalist setup. Configuration - In external agents - I have Calude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and a custom agent for Qwen Coder via Llama.cpp [1] In MCP - I have fetch, brave-search, puppeteer In LLM Providers - I have configured Llama.cpp, LMStudio and OpenAI (Zed Agent can access models from any of these providers). Workflow - When I need LLM assist I mostly use just Claude Code for specific tasks,…

Thank you!

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by fatata123 »

bpasero wrote: post #131

We maintain a single VS Code setting that allows you to opt out of the AI features provided in VS Code: "chat.disableAIFeatures" (see also: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab... ). If you can still find AI features appearing after you have configured this setting, then please report an issue at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode and we are happy to take a look. It is possible that from time…

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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by pwdisswordfishy »

riffraff wrote: post #308
z3dd wrote: post #301

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This is just attention seeking, hard to imagine that after having worked there their best contact is a random person on HN.

GGP didn't say they worked at Microsoft, the comment is a bit hard to parse, but they wrote "I left the company I worked at".

Scant on details, sure, but hard to parse, not really.

The problem is folks this thread seemingly taking a interlocutory approach that can be summarized as, "That which is not explicitly denied can be freely assumed to be true."

(Then throw on top of that, "Depending on how committed you are to your grandstanding, that which is explicitly denied can be conveniently ignored.")

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by maleldil »

mwest217 wrote: post #272
IshKebab wrote: post #207

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VSCode is actually one of the best for large files. Not as good as Sublime Text, but it can happily edit million line files, and you'd be surprised how many other editors can't do that. Zed couldn't until recently (not sure if it can now; I haven't checked recently). Once you get into the GB range there are very very few editors that can edit those files unfortunately.

Vim, neovim, and helix all handle multiple-GB files fine!

> neovim

I have to turn off my config (-u NONE) for large files (e.g., multi-GB JSON files), or everything slows to a crawl. I never profiled it to know what's causing the slowdown. It might be treesitter.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by callumprentice »

dminik wrote: post #316
callumprentice wrote: post #217

I tried Zed for a few months but just couldn't get the JavaScript/Python syntax checking and Prettier type reformatting to work reliably. I would poke at it for a few hours, get it working and then mysteriously, a few days later, it'd stop working again. I switched to VSCode now and whilst that piece of it seems to be much more reliable, I think overall I prefer the "feel" of Zed. I've bookmarked the article to see i…

It's kind of funny, but I had the exact opposite experience. I couldn't get VSCode to reliably format Typescript/React code across several projects. Some would work and others would not. Sometimes it would format, but with wrong settings. Frustrated, I switched to Zed and have not had that issue since.

Fascinating. Can you share your non-private Zed config? I still have mine from before the switch - I'd like to compare.
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