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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by lordofgibbons »

kubik369 wrote: post #31
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.

If you are using MacOS, unfortunately, your issue is that you are using a 1440p monitor, not an issue with any one program. Apple has removed support for font rendering methods which make text on non-integer scaled screens look sharper. As a result, if you want to use your screen without blurry text, you have to use 1080p (1x), 4k (2x 1080p), 5k (2x 1440p) or 6k screens (or any other screens where integer scaling loo…

I'm on Linux (Ubuntu) and haven't had this blurry font issue with any other application that I've installed over the years.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by rtfeldman »

volkk wrote: post #23

Zed is exactly how software should be made. Granted, I don't agree with all of their UX decisions (i think the AI panel is really bad compared to Cursor's), but good lord is the thing fast. These guys are the real deal. They built a rendering system (GPUI) in Rust before building Zed on top of it, and so it is one of the fastest (if not the fastest) pieces of software that resides on my computer. I can't wait until G…

> i think the AI panel is really bad compared to Cursor's

Have you had a chance to try the new panel? (The OP is announcing its launch today!)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by orra »

lopatin wrote: post #20
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

obviously tongue-in-cheek

Humans haven’t been around for millions of years though. Or is that part of the cheekiness?

It depends on what you mean by human. Homo sapians emerged 200k or 300k years ago. But the genus goes back further. Homo habilis goes back 2.4M years.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by jjice »

dimaor wrote: post #37

I'm not sure, it might have changed since, but my personal experience was different. Tried using zed on Linux (pop os, Nvidia) several months ago, was terribly slow, ~1s to open right click context window. I've spent some time debugging this, and turns out that my GPU drivers are not the best with my current pop os release, but I still don't understand how it might take so long and how GPU is related to right clickin…

I know they started on MacOS and their Linux support is relatively new, so I wonder if that "fastest" label is really only applicable to MacOS currently.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by LeafItAlone »

A bit off topic: For work I mostly develop on Python and Typescript.

I’ve been using PyCharm Professional for over a decade (after an even longer time with emacs).

I keep trying to switch to vscode, Cursor, etc. as they seem to be well liked by their users.

Recently I’ve also tried Zed.

But the Jetbrains suite of tools for refactoring, debugging, and general “intelligence” keep me going back. I know I’m not the only one.

For those of you that love these vscode-like editors that have previously used more integrated IDEs, what does your setup look like?

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

ribelo wrote: post #28
gempir wrote: post #19

Wish it could use OpenRouter

You can, but not together with openai: ``` "openai": { "api_url": " https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 ", "version": "1", "available_models": [ { "name": "anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet:beta", "max_tokens": 200000 }, ... ``` Just change api_url in the zed settings and add models you want manually.

Luckily, OpenRouter has OpenAI models as an option :)

https://openrouter.ai/models?fmt=cards&providers=OpenAI

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by AndrewDucker »

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.

Several replies saying that the issue is with the monitor. When the issue has an example showing Zed next to VS Code, and you can see that Zed is much blurrier: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/5507503/9883d38...

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by thfuran »

trevorhinesley wrote: post #21
krastanov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am amazed people consider 1440p low resolution. My knee-jerk reaction was to assume you were sarcastic. I use a monitor of roughly that many lines of pixels and have never had observed blurry text in the tools I use (and I use fairly small fonts).

Are you using enlarged text or native 1440p? If the latter, have you used 4k or retina displays in the past? It’s hard to go back after that.

Look, you can insist that a 1440p monitor can only show blurry text all you like, but the problem that people are talking about is that the text is even blurrier than that.
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