Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
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#3For people who have tried the new agent panel in Zed, how does it compare to something like Cursor or Windsurf?
(I've yet to dive deep into AI coding tools and currently use Zed as an 'open source Sublime Text alternative' because I like the low latency editing.)
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#4I'm curious what others' experiences have been with this. I haven't tried it out yet. Is it comparable to Cursor's capabilities? More on par with VS Code Copilot? Something else entirely?
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#5Wow that's one awkwardly pompous introduction. Nevertheless Zed never fails to impress. Aside from all the AI fireworks it really goes to show how building software "from scratch" pays off in the long run.
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#6I generally use Neovim, but Zed was the first code editor that made me go, "Wow, I can see myself actually using this." My only gripe is the "Sign In" button at the top that I can't seem to remove.
But apropos TFA, it's nice to see that telemetry is opt-in, not opt-out.
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#7I am amazed how well it works. Yesterday I have spent a full day with a new macOS project with idea in my head. Spend half a day writing basic features, and after that opened the project in Zed to add features. Not very well documented things like AppKit + SwiftUI integration - no issues, and I mean I was getting about 500 new lines from my questions and was getting compilable code (and working). A few times after review I modified a few things to make it compilable/or better. But still.
And I had one interesting problem with objc/swift and javascript integration - and Zed AI delivered some masterpiece in JavaScript, that is definitely outside my knowledge.
This technology is definitely going to change how we program now.
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#8Wow that's one awkwardly pompous introduction. Nevertheless Zed never fails to impress. Aside from all the AI fireworks it really goes to show how building software "from scratch" pays off in the long run.
(I thought the introduction was, if not outright funny, deserving of at least one chuckle).
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#9"For millions of years, humans have used tools to create things."
Huh?
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#10I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable.
I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement.
Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code.
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.