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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 __jonas »

hoistbypetard wrote: post #374
__jonas wrote: post #218

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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.

If they factor out the VCS UI into a standalone non-IDE product that starts and runs a little faster than their IDEs and doesn't care about your project setup I'd pay a subscription even

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by sabellito »

j1elo wrote: post #256
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…

> The biggest missing piece in Zed for my workflow right now is side-by-side diffs. > It’s pretty wild how bloated most software has become. It's a bit ironic to see those two in the same message but I'd argue that right there is an example of why software becomes bloated. There is always someone who says "but it would be great to have X" that in spirit might be tangentially relevant, but it's a whole ordeal of its o…

Fully agree.

People call "bloat" the features they don't need, and "deal breakers" the lack of features they want besides good text editing.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by Majromax »

gosub100 wrote: post #366
dijit wrote: post #344

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I think this is quite ironic actually. If I understood the history correctly, being a "shareholder" was a path to a fractional business ownership for people who could not afford to outright own a business. It comes from the same mental position as a co-operative. In these scenarios, a CEO is really just an employee of sorts for the shareholders. It's quite funny that we see the CEO of a publicly traded company has wo…

Not just that, but if it were "fractional ownership in a business" then every profitable company would pay a dividend. Now it has become normalized to not do such a thing with all sorts of fancy reasoning.

Share repurchases are also a way of returning cash-flow to owners. A stock buyback is equivalent to a dividend, just with automatic reinvestment in the default 'do-nothing' case.

Including buybacks, few large and mature companies fail to return profits to shareholders at all, and we'd ordinarily want growing or startup companies to retain earnings and invest.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by mostlyk »

throwfaraway135 wrote: post #70

I tried switching from VScode to Zed but unfortunately it doesn't have Jupyter notebooks and image/video preview which are deal brakers for me. Other pain points: - Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395 - VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better

I have added Jupyter support and Panning/Zooming for Zed, waiting for them to merge. But I have a version that I use, you can build it if ya want! The PRs: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43553, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43944

My-Zed branch with both the features: https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/zed/tree/my-zed

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by gosub100 »

Majromax wrote: post #384
gosub100 wrote: post #366

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Not just that, but if it were "fractional ownership in a business" then every profitable company would pay a dividend. Now it has become normalized to not do such a thing with all sorts of fancy reasoning.

Share repurchases are also a way of returning cash-flow to owners. A stock buyback is equivalent to a dividend, just with automatic reinvestment in the default 'do-nothing' case. Including buybacks, few large and mature companies fail to return profits to shareholders at all, and we'd ordinarily want growing or startup companies to retain earnings and invest.

You are just reciting the "fancy reasoning" that I already mentioned. All the esoteric stuff is designed to do is concentrate the wealth into the hands of the wealthy. It is a step away from fractional ownership.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by avanwyk »

Others have echoed the same, but I also switched from VSCode to Zed, but then put in the effort to learn Neovim (Lazyvim) properly, and I haven't looked back. Writing code feels exciting again. I recommend something like https://github.com/adomokos/Vim-Katas to accelerate muscle memory. And also Vimium in the browser is great.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by neutronicus »

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

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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?

LLMs are pretty good at this sort of thing.

I use emacs, so maybe they're better trained on my editor. But I've had a lot of success resolving little annoyances I have just lived with for years talking to Claude in gptel.

I can't get it to do real work for shit, but it's A+ at helping me waste time with yak-shaving. lol

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by coldtea »

dijit wrote: post #344
yndoendo wrote: post #253

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Fun fact. I do not financially support any restaurant that has a Wall-street ticker. I wish more people would do this. There should be no reason to fund some CEO on Wall-street when we can benefit more by funding local communities. P.S. You have to pay me to use Microsoft products and to engage with Amazon.

I think this is quite ironic actually. If I understood the history correctly, being a "shareholder" was a path to a fractional business ownership for people who could not afford to outright own a business. It comes from the same mental position as a co-operative. In these scenarios, a CEO is really just an employee of sorts for the shareholders. It's quite funny that we see the CEO of a publicly traded company has wo…

>It's quite funny that we see the CEO of a publicly traded company has worse than a sole-proprietor, when profits will go directly to a sole proprietor- but not to a shareholder CEO.

Speaking in the same mindset as the parent, we're fine with the profits going directly to a sole proprietor.

In fact, what we want is a name attached to the profits, and a not a role.

We're not anti-profits.

We're anti bland corporate leadership, with no reputational risk and no personal ties to the company (and often no financial risks either, see golden parachutes) - one whose only mission is to maximize profits, product and customers and legacy be damned.

Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed

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Post by heybales »

dejw wrote: post #360

Zed, VSCode, Antigravity, Sublime Text... They all have the same workflow. For writing the code by hand I recommend Helix, batteries included, fast and efficient. For AI-assisted development it doesn't matter and you'd have to switch the app every 4 months if you want to choose the best one.

For terminal text editing I've switched everything over to helix, highly recommended. Basically no config other than I'll change the theme.

Unfortunately I'm still trying to figure out my AI workflow. Right now it's a mix of Cursor, Claude Code, and JetBrains Rider. I mainly use Cursor for the heavy AI lifting and then switch to Rider and Claude Code for tweaking and debugging. If Cursor didn't completely suck at .NET debug, I might just be able to use it alone.

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