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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…
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…
Is it only fast on MacOS? I tried it on Linux and it was unusably slow. Seconds per frame instead of frames per second.
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 was a RubyMine and later IDEA user for many many years. I agree with everything you've said but I got so tired of the IDE using excessive RAM and constantly making my fan spin (2019 Intel MBP). Switching to Zed made my experience on this laptop enjoyable again, the downside being that I miss out on some of the features from the JetBrains editors. I've learned to work around the loss of some functionality over the p…
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i have and it's more of the same (unless i'm missing something). the fact that the entire thing is editable is weird to me. i really think they should just clone cursor's in this one case because they really nailed the UX with the checkpoint restoration edit: yes i missed something. i see the new feature. hell yeah!
Ah, that's still the old one - the whole thing is no longer editable in the new one we launched today. (You can still access the old one, but the new one is the default as of today.) Check out the video in the blog post to see the new one in action!
How does Zed fare for C++ development? Last I checked it did not support CMake as a build system.
It's a text editor not an IDE.
It supports extensions for languages such as Java and seemingly that extension can build code, too.
Zed also contains Git-support out of the box, which sounds pretty much like a lightweight IDE.
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Is it only fast on MacOS? I tried it on Linux and it was unusably slow. Seconds per frame instead of frames per second.
I’ve been using Zed a few months on my fedora laptop (thinkpad x230) and haven’t had any performance issues. Definitely faster than any other graphical editor I’ve used. Perhaps a driver issue would be slowing it down?
EDIT: just gave it a shot and I get "unsupported GPU" as an error, informing me that my GPU needs Vulkan support.
Their detection must be wrong because this is not true. And like I said, other applications don't have this problem.
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
Also, the Helix way, thus far, has been to build a LSP for all the things, so I guess you'd make a copilot LSP (I be there already is one).
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i have and it's more of the same (unless i'm missing something). the fact that the entire thing is editable is weird to me. i really think they should just clone cursor's in this one case because they really nailed the UX with the checkpoint restoration edit: yes i missed something. i see the new feature. hell yeah!
In the new agent panel not everything is editable. Maybe give it another try.
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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.