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As someone who is in the position to see what the next really disruptive innovation is, you're quite right that there exist much, much better ways to write and collaborate on code. Flying leaps of innovation to Zed's tiny shuffle-steps.
What tools or tech are you referring to?
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What tools or tech are you referring to?
BABLR -- a parser framework, and agAST, the DOM structure at the heart of our state layer. Come to our Discord if you want to learn more. We're trying to launch in the next day or two here.
How do I configure it with Base API URL?
I love Zed but this has all the hallmarks of something being totally rushed out the door. It works off the Claude Code SDK, which mean it doesn't support many of the built in slash commands - it doesn't support /compact, which is 100% necessary because when you use this implementation enough, you'll eventually get a "Prompt too long" error message with no ability to do anything about it. Since you can't see how far y…
Tbf I never use /compact but clear instead, and load in the relevant context anew. I just haven’t seen compacted context to be very useful, so far.
This is probably very similar to /compact except I have a lot of control over the resulting context and can edit it and /clear again and retry if I run into an issue.
But tbh if it’s not as frictionless as the Codex IDE extension in a Zed-skinned VSCode, it doesn’t matter.
Tried giving Claude and CC many chances, but the cognitive load of constantly managing a hard context window is DOA.
Codex w/gpt-5 is on par if not better than any of Anthropic’s solutions at this point, and the ubiquity (web, CLI, IDE) + UX consistency of Codex under one account/plan just dominates any marginal value of using a different model at a higher price.
Codex just works. Then it keeps working. Then it keeps working.
Any solution that wants to compete with OAI’s latest hostile takeover attempt has to match then beat on “unlimited/anywhere/frictionless” UX across platforms AND price ($200/mo all in).
I don’t see a good way out of this for most, except through major spend on playing catchup.
Guess that’s why Anthropic just raised again. Cursor is clearly trying to play, but they will always be a markup product until they launch their own SOTA model. Is Gemini still alive?
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its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.
This will never happen and it's a bizarre, legacy fantasy, borne of a fixed imaginary ideal of what computing should be. Programming will continue to move in the direction of ease-of-use and every time I see an out-of-topic reference to Electron in this forum I feel insane, like I'm fighting upstream. You will not see this - you will see more Electron apps, because that is the modern way of building cross-platform ap…
I like Zed in concept. I like Zed in the architectural and foundational aspects. I want more tools like Zed to exist. But, I find Zed challenging to adopt due to random nuances. First, settings management is a mixed bag and sometimes I just want a quick way to open the "settings.json" from the settings pane without fussing around. Then I'd like the "settings.json" to stay open (reopen) on a restart of Zed. Then I'd l…
For what it's worth, I think Zed now has a default keybind to open settings.json: Ctrl+, I assume that keybind is also configurable?
Note: if you use SSH-based remote development, this doesn't work. https://x.com/sridca/status/1963271904384401886
Zed is so great, I do wish they would focus just a little bit more on bringing the UI just a bit more up to parity with VS Code, I would switch full time.
Anyone running this on Linux? I find it works fairly poorly there. To be fair, vscode is also not great for me (especially vim mode) on Linux.
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It’s built by the team that built atom which was way better than vscode but was mothballed when Microsoft bought GitHub. They built it from scratch and not on electron bloat so it is a much better foundation. It will take a long time to reach parity with vscode but when it does it will smoke it.
So...nothing.