2.3k issues says enough. License as mentioned by others here equally belongs in the trash. Shameful
Zed 1.0
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#482Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently on this machine: using 900MB of RAM, including all language servers, with nine open projects - that is pretty phenomenal. VSCode could barely keep one open with the same memory. The perception of 'fast' is very subjective. To me having a smooth, jitter-free UI, low input latency, and instant startup, all matter a lot.
It's amazing that a gig of ram is considered lightweight for having 8 project dirs open in an editor, which normally means 8 tree views and a few open file tabs per project :)
Even more amazing that 10GB for the same purpose is considered acceptable. ± 100MB for window, project files, LSP servers, ASTs etc is something very few editors can achieve - I'm pretty sure Zed beats both Emacs and Neovim in memory consumption.
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#483Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait, there's more [copied from the top comment of their youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Bns1T77HM )] - 1. Mandatory arbitration by default. You waive your right to a jury trial and cannot join class action lawsuits. You have only 30 days to opt out after agreeing to the terms. 2. 1-year statute of limitations. You must file any legal claim within one year, which is much shorter than the default per…
These are all fairly standard terms.... nothing crazy
lol those are extremely anti-consumer and anti-human behaviors. Some of us don't want to live in a corporate hell holes.
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#484Earlier quoted context omitted.
So I'm not so sure how you arrived at your conclusion of Zed having higher memory use than VSCODE but in testing just now that's not at all close to true. Zed for me on my Linux machine opened to a massive C++ project (the Ladybird browser if you were curious) is (not including LSP or extension processes) using around 480MB of memory. VSCode on the other hand with nothing open but a 20 line JSON file is (again not in…
If editors own memory usage is your main concern then you should use emacs or even better mg or vi. The editor + its plugins + it's LSP server is what counts. I dont care if zed is written in rust and uses 400MB when it spawns a multi GB nodejs process when I work on my tiny golang project.
I mean all 3 of those also support LSP plugins, so would also spawn "multi GB nodeJS processes" with your tiny golang projects if you enable them.
Re: Zed 1.0
#485Can I replace Vim with Zed? Is there a vim mode?
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#486I 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…
Can't you just build the source and run it without giving them any information? Or does the editor itself require information and phone home while running?
1. Yes, Zed is open source, you can build it yourself.
2. Telemetry defaults to on. So turn off telemetry as explained at https://zed.dev/docs/telemetry#configuring-telemetry-setting...
"telemetry": {
"diagnostics": false,
"metrics": false,
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#487Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait, there's more [copied from the top comment of their youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Bns1T77HM )] - 1. Mandatory arbitration by default. You waive your right to a jury trial and cannot join class action lawsuits. You have only 30 days to opt out after agreeing to the terms. 2. 1-year statute of limitations. You must file any legal claim within one year, which is much shorter than the default per…
Yeah, screw that. I am literally shopping for a new editor. A once-a-decade thing for me. I want something that can effectively sandbox local models for code gen. So I was looking at Zed yesterday. Cloned the repo. Then I noticed they were funded by our favorite VCs. Between this and CVE-2026-31431 ("Copy Fail"), it seems like I dodged a bullet.
By sandbox you mean limit to certain files, certain actions, or both?
I've been wanting to look into better emacs integration for agents. Imagine an agent making direct elisp function calls, or using macros... One could limit which functions are allowed to run similar to how cli harnesses work, but plug straight into LSP and etc.
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#488Re: Zed 1.0
#489Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait, there's more [copied from the top comment of their youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Bns1T77HM )] - 1. Mandatory arbitration by default. You waive your right to a jury trial and cannot join class action lawsuits. You have only 30 days to opt out after agreeing to the terms. 2. 1-year statute of limitations. You must file any legal claim within one year, which is much shorter than the default per…
These are all fairly standard terms.... nothing crazy
Is it? My editor's terms of service seem much more user friendly:
Re: Zed 1.0
#490What an abysmal series of top comments. These guys created a phenomenal product using novel technology, which will only continue to improve. Great work to the Zed team.
Maybe they shouldn't be releasing it with anti-consumer terms of service? People's objections are legitimate. Where else should they be discussed?