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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.
Native 1440p, never used retina nor 4k. (not parent commenter, but hold same opinion)
It’s funny that they lead with AI tools. I love zed because it’s fast, customizable, has a clean interface and it’s easy to pair program. The LLM bit is just an annoying thing I shut off because imo I’m too junior at the moment to use LLMs
One way you could use LLMs w/o inducing brain mush would be for code or design reviews, testability, etc.
If you see codebases you like, stash them away for AI explanation later.
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!)
The annoncement is about it reaching prod release, but they emailed people to try it out in the preview version.
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…
That's nice for the chat panel, but the tab completion engine surprisingly still doesn't officially support a local, private option.[0]
Especially with Zed's Zeta model being open[1], it seems like there should be a way to use that open model locally, or what's the point?
Meanwhile I'm checking Helix editor every 6 month to see if authors became any less hostile to the idea of thinking about considering of starting thinking about potentially adding copilot support. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/4037
I also laughed at the dig on VSCode at the start. For the unaware, the team behind Zed was originally working on Atom.
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…
I've learned to work around the loss of some functionality over the past 6 months since I've switched and it hasn't been too bad. The AI features in Zed have been great and I'm looking forward to the debugger release so I can finally run and debug tests in Zed.
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!)
edit: yes i missed something. i see the new feature. hell yeah!
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…
This isn't a great solution, but in cases where I've wanted to try out Cursor on a Java code base, I just open the project in both IDEs. I'll do AI-based edits with Cursor, and if I need to go clean them up or, you know, write my own code, I'll just switch over to IntelliJ.
Again, that's not the smoothest solution, but the vast majority of my work lately has been in Javascript, so for the occasional dip into Java-land, "dual-wielding" IDEs has been workable enough.
Cursor/Code handle JS codebases just fine - Webstorm is a little better maybe, but not the "leaps and bounds" difference between Code and IntelliJ - so for JS, I just live in Cursor these days.