Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

Post by karunamurti » Thu, May 08, 2025, 3:03 AM UTC

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...

Post by alfiedotwtf » Thu, May 08, 2025, 3:23 AM UTC

cess11 wrote: post #81

duped wrote: post #54

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Is it only fast on MacOS? I tried it on Linux and it was unusably slow. Seconds per frame instead of frames per second.

I'm under Debian and i3wm/X11, sometimes it does some stuff that blocks input for a while so I can't drive the window manager until its done. At least it did a month or so ago, and at that time I couldn't figure out a practical use for the LLM-integration either so I kind of just went back to dumb old vim and IDEA Ultimate. When its fast its pretty snappy though. I recently put revisiting emacs on my todo-list, shoul…

Post by atonse » Thu, May 08, 2025, 4:02 AM UTC

atonse wrote: post #380

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.…

Post by dotancohen » Thu, May 08, 2025, 4:58 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #296

porsager wrote: post #238

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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…

It's absolutely remarkable that these folks are writing this from scratch in Rust. That'll be a long-term killer feature for the editor. Do you think GPL3 will serve as an impediment to their revenue or future venture fundraising? I assume not, since Cursor and Windsurf were forks of MIT-licensed VS Code. And both of them are entirely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill to continue developing VS Code in the open. Tange…

  > entirely dependent on Microsoft's goodwill to continue developing VS Code in the open.

Post by mrorigo » Thu, May 08, 2025, 5:45 AM UTC

ammmir wrote: post #12

I was using Zed up until a few months ago. I got fed up with the entire AI panel being an editable area, so sometimes I ended up clobbering it. I switched to Cursor, but now I don't "trust" the the editor and its undo stack, I've lost code as a result of it, particularly when you're in mid-review of an agentic edit, but decide to edit the edit. The undo/redo gets difficult to track, I wish there was some heirarchical…