Zed is a really really nice editor. I consider the AI features secondary but they have been useful here and there. (I usually have them off.) You can use it like cursor if you want to.
Where I think it gets really interesting is they are adding features in it to compete with slack. Imagine a tight integration between slack huddles and VS code's collaborative editing. Since it's from scratch it's much nicer than both. I'm really excited about it.
An AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172
I don't understand why people say X is a competitor to Cursor, which is built on Visual Studio Code, when GitHub Copilot came out first, and is... built on Visual Studio Code.
It also didn't start out as a competitor to either.
Code editor. Imagine VSCode, but with a native GUI for each platform it supports and fewer plugins. And a single `disable_ai` setting that you can use to toggle those kinds of features off or on.
Watch the video on https://zed.dev/, apparently it's really good at quickly cycling through open documents at 120Hz while still seeing every individual tab. Probably something people asked for at some point.
Atom was based on web tech, like VSCode, while Zed is a native app with a custom GUI framework, just like Sublime Text. And just like ST, the standard option now for a fast barebones text editor. That's what I mean by 'spiritual successor'.
The reason I’ve been using Zed is _because_ there is no screwing about with any of that stuff. For Erlang and Elixir it’s been less problematic than IntelliJ, faster and less gross than VS code, and hasn’t required me to edit configuration files other than to turn the font size up.
Neovim just gets in the way. I observe the machine code directly through my sacred bond with the machine spirit. And the holy mechanical tentacles connected to my visual cortex.
Zed is a really really nice editor. I consider the AI features secondary but they have been useful here and there. (I usually have them off.) You can use it like cursor if you want to.
Where I think it gets really interesting is they are adding features in it to compete with slack. Imagine a tight integration between slack huddles and VS code's collaborative editing. Since it's from scratch it's much nicer than both. I'm really excited about it.
Zed's dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
Padadadap - Sound of fingers on a leather hood...
An AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172
I don't understand why people say X is a competitor to Cursor, which is built on Visual Studio Code, when GitHub Copilot came out first, and is... built on Visual Studio Code.
It also didn't start out as a competitor to either.
It wasn't an AI editor for a long time
Yup. Their big design goal seemed to just be "speed" for a majority of development. That's it.
Even without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.
Someone posted this in the other zed thread but it looks on par with VS Code in speed according to these results:
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663
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Code editor. Imagine VSCode, but with a native GUI for each platform it supports and fewer plugins. And a single `disable_ai` setting that you can use to toggle those kinds of features off or on.
Watch the video on https://zed.dev/, apparently it's really good at quickly cycling through open documents at 120Hz while still seeing every individual tab. Probably something people asked for at some point.
Spiritual successor to Sublime Text. They’ve been doing a lot of AI stuff but originally just focused on speed.
https://zed.dev/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(text_editor)
More like a spiritual successor to Atom, at least per the people that started it who came from that project.
Atom was based on web tech, like VSCode, while Zed is a native app with a custom GUI framework, just like Sublime Text. And just like ST, the standard option now for a fast barebones text editor. That's what I mean by 'spiritual successor'.
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Its funny how the same guy who wrote (borderline) the slowest editor, went ahead and built the fastest. Practice makes perfect I guess :)
A code editor with a lot of rough edges. If they don't start polishing the turd I doubt the'll make it.
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The reason I’ve been using Zed is _because_ there is no screwing about with any of that stuff. For Erlang and Elixir it’s been less problematic than IntelliJ, faster and less gross than VS code, and hasn’t required me to edit configuration files other than to turn the font size up.
Sorry I couldn't hear you through the nvim startup time and keyboard noises while you are waiting for your IDE to start
Who restarts their IDE all the time?
I take more than that to fetch a coffee down the kitchen area.
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Neovim just gets in the way. I observe the machine code directly through my sacred bond with the machine spirit. And the holy mechanical tentacles connected to my visual cortex.
Famous indicator of software quality: how fast an editor opened to write it.
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Harsh but true.