I like zed. I just wish they’d support running multiple agents at once + chat history. If they did, I’d pay for zed just to support them.
I switched from VSCode to Zed
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Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#82I just love how Zed is used to develop Zed. For this reason I'm thinking it could emerge as the Rust editor of choice.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
It blows my mind that the most ubiquitous computer screen resolution worldwide is considered too niche for decent support by the Zed project. Hopefully that will change in 2026?
The gamer market while overlapping with the developer market, is not a perfect circle. And where the circle does overlap, devs often work on a different display than they game on.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#84I switched to Helix and ZelliJ, ZelliJ really allows you to setup some IDE features and helix is like the surface layer of Vi. Combined it becomes a very powerful setup!
Can you expand on how you use Zellij? I tried it and I understand you can use it for splits, and tabs similar to tmux. But I might revisit it if it allows an IDE like workflow with Helix.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#85I tried switching from VScode to Zed but unfortunately it doesn't have Jupyter notebooks and image/video preview which are deal brakers for me. Other pain points: - Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395 - VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better
I had a miserable experience with it. It could not do as simple task as discovering my python interpreter! IDEs are a dime a dozen these days — most are fast enough. But common workflows need to be air tight.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#86I've been frustrated by the constant nudges to use specific AI tools from within VS Code, but I made a different change. Rather than moving to a different editor altogether, I started using VS Codium. If you're unfamiliar, it's the open core of VS Code, without the Microsoft-branded features that make up VS Code. I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium, and then adding in their own branded f…
> I believe Microsoft builds VS Code releases by building VS Codium Isnt vscodium a specific product built strictly from open-source VS Code source code? It's not affiliated with Microsoft, they simply build from the same base then tweak it in different ways. This is somewhat unlike my understanding of Chromium/Chrome which is similar to what you described.
The clearest explanation I've seen is on VSCodium's Why page:
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind explaining how / why you have a low DPI monitor? I haven't even seen one in maybe a decade.
1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far, and on regular monitors 1080p is "low DPI". https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
"1080p is the most popular screen resolution by far" for people who use Steam and therefore may be optimising for framerate or connecting to a TV, and even that's pretty meaningless without knowing the physical dimensions of the screen. 1080p is a screen resolution, DPI is screen density - 1080p on a phone is pretty high DPI.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#88This article struck a personal chord with me: I bought a new MacBook a week ago and installed minimal software on it, specifically I did not install VSCode and I don’t miss it. I use Emacs exclusively on my new laptop. I have about 40 years experience with Emacs and except for a treemacs automations, I am using my regular setup. VSCode is a great project but I just didn’t feel “happy” while I was using it. I feel hap…
Emacs what??
Let's start an editor flame war, under a completely different editor wars :))
Yes i am a VI man.
Just joking, I really mis the org-mode.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#89One of my favorite features with zed is the really nice keyboard and window management shortcuts. I can have my terminal just be another tab, easily switch between em and the file explorer
But to the authors note, one might find a single behavior in zed really annoying. Mine is how zed appends a new line at the end of files on save. Used to be able to disable this in settings but an update broke that long ago. Maybe some can tell me its fixed but seems like I’ll need to journey down git hub issue fix but did not find one while back.
Re: I switched from VSCode to Zed
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is interesting to me, because I see this kind of comment on almost every Zed post. I haven't used a low-DPI monitor for like... not sure, but more than a decade, I'm pretty sure, so for me the weird blocker I have with Zed is the "OMG YOU HAVE NO GPU!!!! THIS WILL NOT END WELL!" warning (I run a lot of Incus containers via RDP, and they mostly have no GPU available). But what kind of monitors are you low-DPI peo…
Depending on the definition I'm not a low DPI user myself, but in my friend group, I seem to be the only person who cares about >160 dpi, lots of people are using 1440p displays, or >34" 4k displays. In Apple's mind, high dpi (eg retina) is > 218 dpi, so my lowly 34" 5120x2160 doesn't count for them. But it is > 160 which is my personal threshold for hi dpi. There aren't all that many >20" displays on the market that…
I was imagining 72dpi like old CRT monitors, but yeah, I'd agree that 160 feels like a fair threshold.