Testing it now ... it is absurdly efficient with tokens. Probably order of magnitude better than opencode for a couple of tasks.
Zed 1.0
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Re: Zed 1.0
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Can you repro my finding?
I'm running on a Zed with only 1 empty text file in it. So language servers should not be in use.
How do you measure "pretty lightweight"?
Re: Zed 1.0
#384I was all for trying it until I saw this in the License Agreement: "4.1. Zed's Use of Customer Data Customer hereby grants Zed a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-sublicensable (except to service providers and Customer’s designees), non-transferable (except as set forth in Section 15.1) right to use, copy, store, disclose, transmit, transfer, display, modify, create derivative works from, col…
I understand that differently. The last part of the statement is important I think. It reads as if this grants them the right to "Process" "Customer Data": 1. to perform its obligations, including support obligations, 2. to perform telemetry, 3. when required by law. This is sensible, no?
> when required by law
Suggests there's a longer term storage, available for hackers.
Re: Zed 1.0
#385Zed 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?
On MacOS I never really felt there was a noticeable performance difference to using Zed vs VSCode. I still like the idea of it being Rust/GPU based but just like those GPU optimized terminals (Kitty, Alacritty, etc) the difference is usually pretty marginal for day to day stuff. The only time VSCode gets slow is if you use a bunch of poorly written plugins, which hasn't been an issue for me in years. It's just like C…
This is exactly how I feel.
Cursor works just fine for me. I just don't have the incentive to learn a new tool even though I think Zed is cool.
Re: Zed 1.0
#386Love zed, prepared to love it moreee
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#387Been 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")
3. There's "workspace: new center terminal" command that opens terminal as a normal tab.
Re: Zed 1.0
#388Does a native UI experience have no value these days? I mean--amazing achievement building an alternate GPU-accelerated UI framework from scratch, and I do love the responsiveness, but this leaves you with a non-native app that doesn't follow OS conventions and will not get appearance and behavior updates going forward without a lot of additional effort.
And what cross platform code editor does that nowadays? vscode is electron, jetbrains has swing, ...
The old ones, and the ones that use Qt.
Re: Zed 1.0
#389Does a native UI experience have no value these days? I mean--amazing achievement building an alternate GPU-accelerated UI framework from scratch, and I do love the responsiveness, but this leaves you with a non-native app that doesn't follow OS conventions and will not get appearance and behavior updates going forward without a lot of additional effort.
And what cross platform code editor does that nowadays? vscode is electron, jetbrains has swing, ...
Maybe what I'm saying is that people shouldn't use cross-platform UI solutions. (write-once-suck-everywhere)
Re: Zed 1.0
#390I like Zed for the same reason I liked Atom: it's very light. These past few months my workflow has basically consisted of me running Codex + Gemini CLI in the terminal panel and hopping through files in another. Easy-peasy.
It's a nice departure from the visual overstimulation I get while in VS Code (for which I have to take some blame as I need to remove some installed plugins).
There are a couple of features shown in the v1.0 video that I was unaware of and am keen to check out.