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Zed is now available on Windows
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Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is 18% according to this story: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/projections-show-that-a...
Most of that is macOS and ChromeOS, not Windows.
Yeah. The Steam survey isn't a perfect sample since it's skewed towards gamers, but that currently shows just 0.08% of Windows users are on ARM, while 81.5% of Mac users are on ARM.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of that is macOS and ChromeOS, not Windows.
Yeah. The Steam survey isn't a perfect sample since it's skewed towards gamers, but that currently shows just 0.08% of Windows users are on ARM, while 81.5% of Mac users are on ARM.
That may be true if you're looking at all windows computers in existence. If you look at new laptops being sold you see different numbers. As of 2025, Arm processors hold about 13% to 20% of the market share for new Windows laptops. This is important because these are the people who are more likely to download and install your software.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#54Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.
That doesn't make sense, they both use tsserver under the hood.
You could have an lsp server of infinite speed, but that wouldn't help one bit if the bottleneck is how the client deals with the messaging.
The specific techniques used to send, receive, and parse JSON could matter.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#55Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!
as a 10+ year Sublime user, Zed is the best of the more "modern" GUI editors I've tried. I haven't fully switched over to using it as my daily-driver because Zed's heavy reliance on GPU rendering means that it locks up every time I suspend & resume my Linux box [0,1] but I'm optimistic about the progress they're making on it. 0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940 1: https://github.com/zed-industries/ze…
Was a heavy sublime user for many years, slowly migrated to vim (first sublime with vim keybindings) but now daily drive lazyvim and the defaults with that are very sane.
Quick install on any platform and just works. And obviously plenty of configuration that’s available to you but if you haven’t I’d give that a go.
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#56I have waited for this for months... but it's still only an x86_64 binary! I love my ARM Surface Pro, and Zed would make a wonderful editor on this hardware. If anyone from Zed is reading this, please think about it!
For whatever reason, zed compilation on windows with msvc is extremely slow compared to the Linux counterpart.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/145864 was opened because of the the discrepancy
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#57It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on. I'm really liking it thus far!
Its binary is half a gig in size, so just like a browser, nothing fresh about that.
considering how cheap storage is nowadays nitpicking about binary size is a very weird take. Are you editing code on an esp32?
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#58Viable C# support has stalled https://github.com/zed-extensions/csharp/pull/11
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#59Nice but too little/too late, already switched to Linux - where Zed already works great!
Re: Zed is now available on Windows
#60Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!
Still on Sublime, and helix in terminal.
Tried zed, it's interesting but several things are missing including the ability to skip extensions auto-update... which imho is critical for security.