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  obeavs
  What an abysmal series of top comments. These guys created a phenomenal product using novel technology, which will only continue to improve. Great work to the Zed team.
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  giancarlostoro
  Congrats to the Zed team for building the best modern editor I have ever used. I subscribe to the monthly plan just to give you guys the funding you need, even if my funding is a tiny drop in the bucket. I always wanted a feature rich alternative to Sublime Text that can run anywhere and do basically anything I need from it. I've use JetBrains IDEs for years (been subscribed annually since 2017), but since Zed I havent really opened any of those IDEs in a long time, other than maybe Rider but that's due to C# nuances I needed to work with.
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  nzoschke
  Congrats!My daily driver is Zed developing on SSH remote servers on exe.dev.It's crazy to think of all the dev tools I've churned through over the last 18 months but these two feel sticky.Zed has everything I need in a unified pane. File editor, terminal, agents, SSH remotes. And it's fast and intuitiveexe.dev is the first "dev container" I've ever *loved*. The remote sandbox means `dangerously-skip-permissions` is safe. Being on the internet with good private / shared / public access saves so much time.I also use https://conductor.build/ and GitHub but this is starting to feel clunky compared hacking directly against online live reloading apps.
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  Meekro
  I really want to like Zed because they've clearly put so much work into it, but so far I've been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it with Zed, and turning all those warnings off is not trivial.For each kind of warning, I wish there was a button that said "don't warn me again about issues like this one in this project." Then I could keep the interesting warnings (like undeclared variable) and ditch the ridiculous ones.
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  inickt
  I'd love to see the Alacritty terminal backend swapped out with libghostty (or more likely libghostty-rs). The work Mitchell is doing with Ghostty and the approach Zed has taken seem super aligned.And Mitchell definitely seems to want to make Alacritty an easy target for conversion, he was just talking about being open to help support Warp with it: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2049159764261925005
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  f311a
  Too bad they did not include better search UI into this release.When you search, Zed opens a new tab, which I hate. Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape.Telescope style search in vim, helix or JetBrains tools is so much better.https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478
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  entropyneur
  I've tried switching from JetBrains IDEs just a few days ago. The speed and memory footprint are very impressive. I ended up badly missing refactorings and some other features and configuring a debugging session looked like something that needs more time than I had on my hands. So went back for now. I hope they add more IDE features eventually. There's not much a pure text editor can offer over Emacs after all. But this announcement sounds like they are prioritizing agents integration - the same thing that seemingly made JetBrains drop the ball on their core advantages.
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  poetril
  I quite like Zed, I've consistently driven it for months at a time. But there are two things that add enough friction that over that month or so I end up bailing back to one of my other editors (vscode/neovim). The search experience being a new tab with no sidebar option and the diff viewer being a multibuffer view with no option to see the entire contents of a file you are diffing.That being said, I love the software and will continue to check back on it with the hopes that it sticks one day. Congrats on the 1.0!!
• scottmessinger
  I love Zed and have been using it for years. I’ve been especially excited about multi-agent support—it feels like it could be a genuinely powerful model.That said, the current UX is pretty confusing.There’s a mismatch in visual hierarchy: selecting an agent in the sidebar appears to change the entire editor’s worktree/branch, but the worktree/branch selector lives in the window titlebar, which strongly implies it controls the whole window. So it’s unclear which is the source of truth—the agent or the window.That ambiguity shows up in the workflow too. If I want to create a new branch/worktree and then start an agent on it, I can’t do that directly. I have to:1. create an agent 2. start a conversation (to instantiate it) 3. then switch the branch/worktreeThat ordering feels backwards—I’d expect to define the context first, then start the agent.Even basic navigation is unclear. If I switch the branch in the titlebar, does that affect the current agent, or the whole window? If I want to return to a previous worktree, is that tied to the agent or not? I still don’t have a solid mental model.It feels like there are two competing concepts:* agents as independent workspaces * the window as the workspaceRight now they overlap in a way that’s hard to reason about.The feature has a lot of promise, but the current UX makes it difficult to predict what’s going to happen, which makes it hard to rely on.
• haspok
  My biggest gripe with Zed right now (it seems they had changed the default force-formatting of source code) is that it is non-extensible.I just wanted a custom action when I right click on a file (or multiple files) in the file tree - uh-oh, sorry, you can't have that.Basically all text editors should be extensible. Emacs and vim, Notepad++ or Sublime - this is one of their core features. Do I need to explain this to the HN crowd?GPU acceleration is nice, and in general, the whole basic editing experience is quite nice. But lack of extensibility is just a punch below the belt.Maybe Zed 2.0 will be worth another look.
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  alternatex
  The only thing that bothers me about Zed is the theme. It's so bland it actually gives me reading difficulties. I'd be surprised if some of the color combinations don't pose an accessibility issue. Grey text on grey background is quite the choice.
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  sev_verso
  I've been using the editor since the early days and have always been a fan of its visual look and feel, so I was pretty happy to see its UI library open sourced.I wish GPUI could become the go-to Rust UI library and not just an editor backend.For that, a couple of changes would be highly desirable: being able to switch the GPU backend from Metal to wgpu (so it could be mixed with vello, for instance), and the ability to integrate into an existing event loop like egui allows you to. If this were easy to do, I would switch from egui in a heartbeat.
• crabbone
  > We're also launching Zed for Business. Companies have been asking us for a way to roll out Zed to their engineering teams, and very soon they can, with centralized billing, role-based access controls, and team management.Regardless of everything else being said, does anyone actually still do it? I thought this practice more or less died with Eclipse, where proprietary editors often shipped as Eclipse plugin and then the ops of a company that bought the plugin would have to configure it for every developer, set up with home-made automation etc.I haven't seen anything like this in the last ten years at least and assumed the practice was dead, and, instead, developers were allowed to use whatever editor they want, while committing editor-specific (configuration) files, for example, would be considered a noobie mistake.Or was I just happily living in the world where the long arm of the corporate was unable to reach me?
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  akho
  Shortcuts still don't work on non-Latin keyboard layouts on Linux. For people who use languages with non-Latin writing systems, this is a show-stopper.(there is, of course, a rich tradition of text editors with the same issue, including Vim and Emacs. They 1) have an excuse; 2) provide both workarounds and their own input method systems. Having this in a new program is nuts.)
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  exographicskip
  Been following zed for at least a year now.Tried switching multiple times from vscode but it's just not feature complete for my use cases. Off top:- no expanding tabs to fill the window until another one is clicked- file picker hides .gitignored files- vertical terminal tabs would be nice- restart doesn't automatically load the previous window (most recent project)- while faster/more responsive than vscode on large codebases, still pretty heavy compared to its AI-averse fork, gram; thus I can't use it on the macbook neoUntil some/all of that is improved, it's just uncanny valley territory with no particular killer feature to migrate. Appreciate all the work they've put into it (especially remote ssh parity!) though and like what they're doing in broad strokes
• rawoke083600
  Congrats on shipping !I love that most of my (small but important) set of keyboard shortcuts from VSCode jsut works.- Terminal - Ctrl + P (and siblings).Suggestion (minor):To me, font size is as import these days as dark/light mode. Would be cool if basic font-size (ui panel etc, were part of default/first-run config)Also like that AI is a "first class citizen" it seems on Zed.Well done guys :)
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  the__alchemist
  I am posting this because I want to like and use Zed because it's so fast and responsive (Especially on my tablet, which JB turns into a space heater), and has neat functionality like being able to switch to whatever set of hotkeys you use. And I greatly respect the small binary/download size and fast install. From experimenting in Python and rust: - Doesn't highlight typos in variable, functions, class/struct names etc. Doesn't highlight rust borrow-check, invalid method etc errors. - Doesn't seem to understand either language beyond superficial syntax - "Go to definition" (Ctrl + B) Doesn't do anything - Doesn't show which versions are valid in Cargo.toml and pyproject.toml - No ability to move functions/classes/structs etc to different modules - Doesn't seem to understand rust feature gates - Doesn't seem to understand what fields a struct has, or params a function has, let a lone what types are valid in them. - Rename seems naive Overall: It is taking a superficial view of the code base, and treating it more as text than a cohesive structure.edit: Thank you very much for those who have pointed out I needed to disable restricted mode. This has added some introspection and in-line error handling. Some of my concerns are partially-mitigated. It seems when introspection and in-line editing/complete/data appears is inconsistent (But working in many cases), and I do not yet know what rules define this. Refactoring tools like moving are still absent. I will continue to use Zed on my tablet with the LSPs enabled, and observe.
• zargon
  I want to try Zed, but it's just too much of a supply chain attack waiting to happen. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589I did install it in a VM with virtio-gpu, but it was absurdly slow, so I wasn't able to try it.
• kidsil
  Over the years I’ve tried plenty of fast, "snappy" code editors, but always found myself returning to Sublime.Zed is the first one that got me to actually migrate. It does a great job of staying out of your way. Search and replace works seamlessly across multiple files with regex, and the extremely fast editing experience feels immediately familiar if you’re coming from Sublime. Being open source also gives confidence in its long-term viability.Kudos to the team building Zed.
• taosx
  Congratz to the team. I really like zed and started using it quite early, loved the text threads and was using them a lot as I don't think llms fit in a box of only agents, they were a nice way to manage conversations, work through them, edit responses to lead the agent better, copy-paste full text, sad to see them go (text threads).I'm trying right now the ACP with my own agent and I'm of mixed opinions but that's maybe because I care how my agent works. I believe that for the agent view a plain buffer with small ui elements would be the best ui for an agent conversation but I may have been spoiled by their text threads. I may spin a personal fork but the thought of tens of mins of compile time isn't that attractive.Edit: I realized I started moving to terminal based editors like helix due to agents: claude -> codex -> custom pi, with the open sourcing of warp I was considering making a native integration for warp + pi but now I'm thinking zed's text threads (~17k lines) + pi might be a better way, any thoughts or ideas?
• stellalo
  I switched to Zed as my main editor about a year ago, and I’m not going back! What a great product!
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  jryio
  Zed is a durable piece of software, rather than the current trend of cheap disposable software. Regardless of whether humans or agents use a tool like this, durability is a benefit for both.Congrats to the team
• molf
  Just tried it out and it works great and is really fast! It's a breath of fresh air compared to VS Code. Lots of other editors are fast, but this seems feature complete as well as fast.Migrating from VS Code was also super simple and integrations with AI assistant seem to just work.I can definitely appreciate the engineering work that went into it. Loving it so far! Thanks!
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  MoonWalk
  Well, just fired it up on Windows, and already dislike it. And I went in with a positive attitude, because I would welcome a better tool than VS Code.Main problem: No menu. Where are the settings? The first thing I wanted to do was move the file treeview to the left side; I don't know what country the authors live in, but in Western countries we read from left to right. But nope, there's no View menu or anything of the sort.Then I examined every other little button around the UI, to no avail. I want to get stuff done; not play with an Advent calendar, hunting for goodies.
• deferredgrant
  Zed's strongest argument has always been that editor performance still matters. It is easy to forget how much a fast, quiet tool changes the feel of a full workday.
• __rito__
  It has replaced VS Code for my for my work and side projects.I don't use AI tools in 90% of the projects.It's snappy, fast, everything just works. I have the vim mode turned on while editing.
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  culebron21
  I tried Zed several times, and still VS Code + Sublime win.1. In Zed, all my Rust files are reformatted on save. (I also code in Go, and don't like this approach at all.)2. It takes ages to find out where to configure the language servers, and find those little options several layers deep, that I need to switch. (E.g. turn of rustfmt, or turn off some PEP8 checks.)3. Zed is still missing the killer feature of Rust in VS Code -- underlining the mutable vars. (TBH, VS Code custom themes also lack this, and it's unclear how to turn that feature on, but at least the default ones have it.)For comparison, I have bought all 4 Sublime editions. I tried Pycharm, and still preferred Sublime. VS Code came when I needed interactive debugger for Rust.
• gervwyk
  Well done on this milestone! Gave zed a decent chance last week and it wins on many fronts to replace my now scattered setup. 1. For me to use it I need to apply prettier formatting of the current project (maybe there is a way? i could not find it) 2. I need to run the claude cli, not an agent interface. or allow me to place the terminal on the left in the agent view or something.for the everything else it was a win. will give it another chance in a month or three to see if it can do, excited to have a setup that easily navigates code diffs.
• dev_l1x_be
  Zed is the only editor I use on a daily basis and VIM. It is fast and renders nicely. I do not need to configure it much, few extra plugins but most of the things are working out of the box.
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  JokerDan
  I was an early adopter of Zed (private alpha mid-2022) and it's crazy how far they have come in a relatively short space of time. Sadly I stopped using Zed when the push of AI features started to happen (same with Warp terminal) and have since used Gram more. I may have to give Zed another run as I believe you can turn all the AI features off now?Congrats to the team on 1.0!
• graphememes
  I would use zed, but I can't get over tabs for terminals and the file explorer doesn't refresh when new files are added from external sources, outside of that it's pretty good.
• megalomanu
  Congrats to the team! Fantastic editor, it really brought me joy after years of VSCode/Cursor. I love how it's crafted, you can feel the soul behind each decision.What I love:- the speed, of course- the high consistency between features, tabs, and panes, while Cursor looks like a crumbly assemblage of plugins. At first I was worried about the lack of plugins, but Zed made me realize you don't need many- the visual elegance: the padding, the proportions... It reminds me of the best of JetBrains (though I haven't used their products in years). It feels closer to the IDEs I used in the past (for Java or C#), in the sense that it seems to encompass everything you need, without the heaviness.- the numerous keyboard shortcuts, often displayed visibly, which makes them easier to remember- the transparency of their roadmap and their velocity: now that we finally have the vertical git diff as promised, my doubts are gone!Truly one of my favorite pieces of dev software in 15 years.
• nu11ptr
  Have they made a way to move those tiny icons in the lower left (aka "activity bar") to larger icons on the upper left like VsCode? As it stands, I can barely see them on my 4K screen and selecting them with a mouse cursor is like a pixel hunting contest. No go for me until they offer a way to change that. Beyond that it seems like a decent editor, but if I can't switch modes back and forth, that is a deal breaker.UPDATE: Looks like they haven't yet, bummer, and doesn't seem to have much traction either. They redirect to discord, but AFAIK that doesn't have a way to make a feature request directly?https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/47593https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/48098https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/47626
• pier25
  I'm loving it.Just opened my current TS/TSX project and everything is working as expected.Performance is fantastic. I used Sublime for a decade and always missed its native performance after switching to VSCode due to needing first class Svelte, Vue, or Astro support.The only thing that bothered me is that it enabled the Tailwind LSP even though I'm not using TW and I couldn't stop it. Had to disable that LSP completely in the settings: "language_servers": [ "...", "!tailwindcss-language-server" ]
• atonse
  Congrats to the Zed team. I love that there's such a powerful and blazingly fast editor out there for us.While it's been hard to use zed when the pull of claude/chatgpt desktop and terminal apps feel more full featured and take up more of the share of daily work, I continue to use Zed any time I do need to explore a codebase or review a markdown plan from an agent.I hope that there can be improvements to the markdown preview because at least in my case, I'm using that feature a LOT these days.
• kstrauser
  Zed got me off of Emacs for the most part, which is about the highest praise I can offer. I've never used an editor that 1. closely mapped to how I think about code, and 2. is easily extensible enough that it's broadly supported with a gazillion third-party packets, and 3. is lightning fast. Emacs does 1 and 2. VSCode excels at 2. Sublime is good for 2 and 3, and Vim, and BBEdit 2 too. Zed's the only one I've ever tried that nailed all 3, plus excellent out of the box defaults.I think it's fantastic. I still keep my Emacs chops up because it's 50 years old and I know it'll be here another 50 years from now, but Zed's open on my desktop more than any other app.
• 0xCE0
  I actually downloaded and tried Zed first time about a week ago, because I needed a text editor that looks and behaves almost identically with Windows/macOS/Linux, so there is minimal switching hassle between developing for all these three OSs. And vims/emacs are no-choice for me, because if I don't use them for a while, I have to google how to exit/save etc. Not a choice for CEO.I have now one week experience, and I like it very much. Some settings take a bit time to get right for my taste, and themes doesn't look polished, but otherwise it is excellent choice (even when thinking Sublime, which I considered the best of all). AI-things can be disabled for now, so let's hope it stays that way.I also tried VSCode, and omg, I can't understand who want to use that... It is almost Visual Studio grade bad. At least by default settings. It couldn't even open 900 kb text file without freezing (Zed/Sublime had no problem, like 2026 computers/software shouldn't have with 1 mb file).
• actinium226
  VSCode is draining my battery, looking forward to trying this
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  jore
  Does anybody have experience running Claude Code or Codex in Zed?
• travisgriggs
  I'm rather happy with Zed.I use it for Elixir and ansible stuff. I may eventually be open to using it instead of PyCharm for python and/or Nova for C.If there's one area I still feel that Zed lets me down is in pane management. Maybe I need to just learn more key shortcuts. But I spend a bit of time "managing" the secondary panes and having to switch back and forth between outline, files, search. I'm not sure what the solution is. Just wish the secondary panes weren't a scarce resource that had to be mux'ed betwixt.I really like(d) the agent integration, but we're currently experimenting with Claude Code Desktop, and I really miss not having the tight integration. My guess is that I'm going to switch back to using the Pro subsidized version. I was getting by with ~$40-$50 a month. Now the company is paying $125 for Claude Team premium seat, and it's a lesser experience.
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  simonask
  Congratulations! I’ve been very happy with Zed for the past year or so.I’m hoping the roadmap contains support for even more things that extensions can do, such as rendering images or Markdown in-editor.
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  throwa356262
  Zed seems to have many fans on HN.But it is not for me. Multiple issues on Linux and high memory usage makes it a worse alternative to vscode and jetbrains.Maybe it's better on OSX, but I dont use that anymore and why use an editor that treats your platform as a second class citizen?
• vovavili
  Congratulations to the team, big milestone. Aside from an occasional drop to Positron for dataframe visualization, I haven't had a need to open any other IDEs like PyCharm/IDEA or VSCode in a long time, and I've been using them for over five years at this point. Zed's internals is software engineering at its finest, and I hope GPUI will eventually become the go-to Rust GUI library.
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  z5h
  So, the S and P in LSP stands for Server and Protocol. The Protocol is to exchange JSON-RPC messages with a server. So to add a new language to Zed, we should just be able to direct Zed to the server to talk to right? No. You have to write an extension in Rust. https://zed.dev/docs/extensions/languages#language-servers.Or am I missing something?
• smeshny
  I switched to Zed about three months ago, and honestly, I’m loving it. It just works, it doesn’t lag, and it doesn’t eat all my RAM. Thanks, and congrats!
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  nielsbot
  Does a native UI experience have no value these days? I mean--amazing achievement building an alternate GPU-accelerated UI framework from scratch, and I do love the responsiveness, but this leaves you with a non-native app that doesn't follow OS conventions and will not get appearance and behavior updates going forward without a lot of additional effort.
• burnto
  Thank you, Zed team, for creating Zed. It’s clearly a labor of love, and I really want Zed to work for me. It seems like a quality project, it’s fast, and the base editor is easy to use.I gave it weeks though, and the surrounding UI just never clicked for me. The various AI panels are confusing, the global search is awkward, and something about the type rendering just didn’t ever look right (maybe I’m hallucinating this?). I use VS Code only grudgingly, but I do think its ergonomics are actually pretty reasonable. I came from Sublime before that. I’ll keep trying Zed, and I hope you succeed.
• mlsu
  I switched to Zed for the first time over the weekend on a somewhat complex mixed C/rust project. I was able to set the whole thing up in about an hour to my liking and it is a really nice IDE, coming from bloated VS Code. I think they have a really nice AI-assisted coding setup, I think that the "file review pane, in line with IDE" UX is correct for AI tools. I'm skeptical that terminal or "agent" based AI programming is viable long-term.
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  kevinfiol
  Congrats to the Zed team! I've been using a combination of Zed + Gram [1] (which I predict may lag behind this 1.0 release in features/fixes). They are both nice, fast editors. However, I switched to Sublime Text 4 again recently and... I'm surprised to see how much clunkier Zed feels than Sublime. I can't put my finger on it, but Sublime, although lacking in features, feels considerably more polished and performant.[1] https://gram.liten.app/
• larusso
  Zed is my daily driver for the last couple of month. I tried it a few times before but had to switch to various other editors for different projects. But my plan was to finally ditch VSCode as my normal file editor. I really love how fast the editor fires up. I also love the fact that it has great vim binding not just in the editor pane.
• mugamuga
  Just installed it and used it for a bit, Great Editor. It sometimes lags and slows down but overall good experience, all these things can be fixed in later patches.
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  bishabosha
  I like Zed but as a user of Scala it is not open-enough of a platform to be useful beyond small projects.e.g. its "run" gutter icons rely on context free grammar queries, but of course Scala allows to define main methods via inheritance from a class. Zed's extension api should let the extension report entry points via whatever internal mechanism it needs.This also goes for the various testing libraries in Scala that because only tree-sitter queries are supported therefore need a custom pattern match for each library as they have their own mechanisms, rather than letting the extension provide its own test harness (easily handled by build tools automatically) - Zed should provide something similar to VS Code's Test Explorer and Testing API interface.Also extensions can't add new UI, so you are stuck fitting to the recipe Zed team provides for you to plug into, and often enough this is not satisfactory.
• bachmeier
  Zed is a great editor. I think they have done an excellent job and hope they are successful. That said, I do not feel compelled to switch to it. For a pure text editing experience, I've always felt most comfortable with Geany. When I want to extend the editor, I reach for Emacs. AFAICT, extending Zed means using Rust, and that's never going to happen.
• BewareTheYiga
  Bravo! I've enjoyed using Zed and seeing its progress. Still waiting on python notebook support.
• nye2k
  I want to like and use Zed, but in my mind there was some odd commerce, or 3rd party share decision that was made which had me avoid it for security reasons. Like... Zed was endorsed as the only editor for something... can anyone remember or elaborate? I cannot!
• wg0
  This is a solid release and first time, I feel like it is pretty good for the use case of decent sized Typescript mono repos. I can jump around codebase quicker.PS: Pretty daring move to think of building an editor when there's already sublime, textmate, Jetbrains and VSCode.
• gazebo2
  Unrelated to the actual editor but this is one of the best looking and most responsive websites I've ever used
• prinny_
  I have been following zed for quite some time and I use it daily alongside nvim (haven’t yet tried zed vim mode, planning to). I really like the performance and control zed provides, as well as the reduced UI clutter compared to alternatives. The collaborator functionality is not talked enough by the community but I believe it’s an ambitious idea worth pursuing. Wishing the team all the best.
• rsanek
  Ever since agents came out I had been lost trying to figure out what I should replace my heavy IntelliJ with. I switched fully over to Zed once they shipped the git graph in stable [0] and couldn't be happier. Congrats on 1.0![0] https://zed.dev/releases/stable/0.231.1
• mikepurvis
  I'm trying it out, looks pretty decent.For better or worse, my current workflow is to do most things through WSL on Windows 11. VSCode supports running the editor natively on Windows, but then having an agent or something inside WSL that lets me remote control what's going on there. Does Zed do anything similar?Currently I'm just access the workspace in Zed via Windows Explorer, but I wonder if that's going to kneecap some of the integrations.EDIT: nm, Zed supports exactly the same kind of remote editor session, via hamburger -> File -> Open Remote
• LucasOe
  Feature-wise, Zed is still far from VS Code, but for me, the change has been worth it for the performance increase alone. I'm really happy with Zed, and I think it has a bright future ahead. Congratulations on the 1.0 release!
• swiftcoder
  Good for them, but I wish they'd hurry up and catch up on some of the big missing features. Really hoping they'll accept my PR to add the missing call hierarchy feature before the GitHub issue turns 2 years old :)
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  Torlan
  I’ve tried it multiple times, but the performance issues on different Macs are too significant to ignore. I appreciate responsive UI, but I also prioritize sufficient battery life.
• chwzr
  I would really love to see an iOS remote control app for zed. I am using it on throw away microvms via ssh. Would love to have the zed server running there, control agents via phone and occasionally use my Mac to connect to the server and use the desktop app as normal for review and hand coding
• aorth
  Massive congratulations to the team and the community. Thanks for the solid product. It's fast and native on Linux with Wayland. I don't use any of the AI stuff, though, so I'm glad there is a switch to disable it.
• wxw
  Congrats! I just started playing with Zed last week. Changelog notes, for the curious: https://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.0.0.
• daniel_grady
  Congratulations to the Zed team! What a great project.The newer layout that came along with the parallel agents feature is very nice; even without using parallel agents regularly, this is a breath of fresh air.
• atombender
  I've been using Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA as my main IDE for Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc. for the last 3 years, and this Christmas I switched to Zed, and I'm not looking back.I was admittedly skeptical of Zed in the beginning, because they started out with so few features, and it seemed impossible to really switch permanently to it and still be as productive. The Jetbrains platform has got such an amazingly rich set of features and an uncanny ability to just nail the editor experience. It seems almost unthinkable that anyone would be able to compete, and for a long time Zed was very far behind, but this year I feel they're finally a viable alternative.What ultimately pushed me towards Zed was performance and the sheer amount of work-stopping bugs. I would have days where Jetbrains would get unresponsive or extremely sluggish. Suddenly "undo" would stop working (!). Major and minor upgrades often introduced perplexing performance degradation. In short, I've wasted insane amounts of time on bugs and on filing detailed bug reports that are never looked at. That undo bug has been open for maybe a year now.For all the bells and whistles, I think Jetbrains faces an intractable problem. It's just utterly unrealistic that they'll be able to solve everything unless they stopped all development to focus on just stability. The product is too big, too complex, too unwieldy, and too bloated. I was always allocating 16GB RAM to Jetbrains, and often had it sit there consuming 1000% (!) CPU. Zed chews up a couple of gigs at most, and rarely uses much CPU. There's a tendency for editors to get bloated as they evolve. This certainly happens with Atom. I'm really hoping Zed will stay lean.
• post-it
  Congrats to the Zed team for abandoning zero-based versioning!https://0ver.org/
• lexoj
  I want to use Zed but last time I tried it was spawning node processes, i guess for lsp. (I develop in Go)
• artooro
  Been loving Zed for the last few months. The Dev Containers were the last thing I needed to switch over and been steady ever since.
• kettlez
  Congrats on 1.0!Though it's a pretty big bummer to see that extension improvements were removed from the roadmap.
• aranw
  I really like Zed but it's most recent big changes to Git integration and Parallel Agents has forced me to disable both of those features as the way they work just didn't suit me and my workflow
• gpm
  Still absolutely no support for screen readers?Despite promising it for years and every comparable product having it.
• teekert
  I like Zed, I had only a few issues switching from VSCode. And I love the responsiveness of the crew in the repo! Keep it up, you're my default!
• peterpanhead
  Congrats on reaching your first major
• anon
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• evilmonkey19
  Congrats to the Zed team! I really like your editor and it works surprisingly well, althought there are a few rough edges still with the python experience.The debugger in Python FastAPI and mainly Django is not working as expected. Hopefully soon will be fixed.
• computerbuster
  Congratulations to the team, I've been on Zed exclusively for a couple of years and it has been nothing but great on macOS and Linux.
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  fishgoesblub
  1.0 and still has the wrong colours when ran in Wayland and lacks bitmap font support.
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  johnfn
  I hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can't get over the theme. I've tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popular and they are all equally poor. VSCode and Cursor have vastly better default themes.Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would love to use Zed more.
• cgg1
  I haven’t booted up an editor in a long time but I’ve written lots of software recently (mostly with codex).Interesting times…
• ryanmcbride
  I feel like the last time I looked at Zed it didn't support windows, looks like it does now but it sure scared windows defender.
• ggandhi
  Once there was Vim, and then there is Zed. In between I just found useless UI bloats.Simply love it!
• outlore
  Great product! Would love to see some search (tree view) and git (staged vs unstaged diffs) improvements in the future!
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  jxmesth
  Why do I get a warning when trying to run this on Windows 11?
• superxpro12
  does this support plugins? How does it integrate with cmake projects?
• d0100
  Tried using Zed but for some reason the AI can't open the browser?
• stuaxo
  I use zed as a quick editor for stuff using usaved files.I don't like how it loses the session when I reopen it randomly (and not randomly every upgrade).
• ethin
  This editor sounds awesome, but it's sad they didn't make the UI accessible.
• pbiggar
  Would not recommend getting attached to an editor that's VC funded by Sequoia.
• luca-ctx
  Congrats Zed! GPUI has been a huge inspiration.Whenever I think to myself “yikes that sounds too hard”, my next thought is “well, Zed team could probably do it”.
• egonschiele
  Congrats to the Zed team! Great to see people continuing to work on important tooling like editors these days.
• carlcortright
  Tried it yesterday. HUGE fan of how the agents work and how the editor feels.
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  iainctduncan
  Serious question, is there any advantage to Zed if one does not use LLM assisted coding?
• mfontani
  Why does signing up through Github require the "act on behalf" permission?That seems risky.
• Alex-Aachen
  Congratulations from me too — it quickly became my go-to editor (sorry, VSCode)
• napolux
  Zed is one of my fav. piece of software of the last years :)
• m3kw9
  I'm using it and i fail to see what is the difference between this and VSCode
• arpadav
  daily driver has been zed ever since they introduced helix more. still super excited to see how far it can go. congrats to them
• MoonWalk
  Is what?
• anon
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• bikelang
  Huge congratulations to the Zed team!
• XiS
  Strange, I'm on 2.4.1 already. Oh wait...this isn't about ZFS.Sorry, can't help it, every time I see Zed i think of the ZFS Event Daemon
• JnnydevDude
  Congrats guys! I've been using zed since a few months ago, I would consider myself a "light" user but I do enjoy the experience. My only sour point would be the not so smooth integration with claude code. But I've learmt to live with it for now
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  comandillos
  Such a pity remote dev containers are critical for me. I guess some SSH tunneling could help with it...
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  jcgrillo
  How is their emacs keymap support? I tried VSCode for a while but switched back to emacs because it was so slow and the keymap was not very good. I've been intending to try Zed but emacs is working well enough so the motivation isn't really there yet..
• saltyoldman
  I try Zed every few months. I does not yet have everything I need yet, but at some point I think it's going to be the best code editor out there.
• insane_dreamer
  Well done. I've been using Zed pretty much full-time for about 6 months now, and am happy with the experience.There are still a few things PyCharm does better (debugging, for one), but overall Zed is very good and I haven't used PyCharm in months.I still use CC in the terminal instead of inside Zed, and lazygit for reviewing git changes and other git actions (though Zed now does a decent job of the basics).
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  xpe
  Here is a top-level comment for people who want to post the things they wish Zed had.Request: please be sincere if you claim "the one thing that keeps me from using Zed is X" ... because let's face it, there is probably more than one thing. Editor ecosystems are complex beasts, and it is ok if people are slow to switch, but the "one thing" claims are rarely credible to me. Anyhow, such comments are rarely consistent with how human nature works. People find rationalizations, and that's fine. It would just be nice if people were a little more self-aware. Changing editors is harder for some people more than others.My suggestion: if you want to make Zed better for your use case, please smart by explaining who you are as a developer, what you've used, what your expectations are. And be intellectually honest about the last time you've made a big change to your development workflow. End soapbox.
• submeta
  Zed is a very polished and nice product. I tried hard to use it, especially when I decided to migrate away from Emacs. But NeoVim gives me everything I was looking for in Zed: Speed, a polished UI, quick startup, not overloaded. So between Zed and NeoVim I decided for the latter. I use Neovide in GUI and neovim in terminal. I don’t use AI alongside nvim, but claude code helps me configure my config file in lua. So my neovim has a 10k lines config spread of several files. It is my simple text editor with super fast movements, and it can become a full blown programmable interface for my Obsidian, for my journal writing, for coding, writing documentation. It can be as complex as I need it to be. And it’s super fast.
• xaxfixho
  their website kick my fan up, what gives? CPU sweating just to display this??
• jrm4
  Looking at Zed (and Brave in another thread) I'm really firming up this idea that the "big funded private company model" for essential tech software is just most often idea. They don't know how to add features without also adding bloat and BS.This is why I say Docker is the only real "success" story here. And note, I mean a success story for the users; Docker tries real hard to enshittify and fails, and that's good.
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  shevy-java
  > Zed is also an AI-native editor.My editor is dumb. No AI anywhere.The only unusual thing is that I use ruby as primary glue language to everything, so in a way that editor (no longer maintained, similar to Linus' editor) is just a wrapper over ruby as such, and functionality in these scripts.I have also found that it is not the editor that slows me down, but the need to have to think. This is also one reason why I try to make the specification as useful as possible. For instance, in one project that I use to compile everything from source, I use a ton of simple, mostly smallish .yml files that describe everything - allowed keys, allowed values, settings that are mostly just a pointer to where to fetch the source, how, how to compile it then and so forth. The ruby code then is mostly just a glue over that data. And that approach, while very simple, works quite well. Users can also modify settings, by modifying the .yml file or via commandline flags. And if need be, I could also use and populate a SQL database with that data (but for the most part, yaml actually suffices; I don't understand why people are so upset about yaml, and then only point at use cases where folks use mega-nested yaml files. These guys don't understand why simplicity is a benefit; admittedly yaml is not a perfect format either, I notice this when I have a long .yml file and then some forgotten ":" or "," due to manual copy/paste error, then it takes me a few seconds to notice what's wrong).
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  Fervicus
  Sorry, I am not going to use and get attached to a code editor that is VC funded. You know the enshittification will happen sooner or later.
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  MichaelNolan
  I tried zed sometime ago, and the limiting factor was devcontainer support. It looks like they’ve made some progress there https://zed.dev/docs/dev-containers
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  catapart
  I'd love to try Zed out but I'm locked out unless they deliver a build without any AI integration, or deliver the build tools so that I can build my own editor on their foundation.Either is fine by me, but I have zero interest until one of those things happen.