Comment by vendiddy

The vision sounds interesting but I think if they have two challenges they will need to overcome to compete in the IDE space

1) Their LLM integration needs to be at the quality of Cursor and VSCode to pull people away from those

2) Reduced friction to move over (keyboard shortcuts, common plugins, etc)

I think the Zed team is perfectly capable of winning. The bigger risk would be them trying to tackle fancy stuff before making sure the basics are good enough to get developers to switch.

They need to build up a deep understanding of why folks are sticking to Cursor/VSCode and not swapping over.

P.S. I would love for Zed to win in the market because I'm sick of slow software and it's refreshing to finally see an intense focus on performance.