Comment by OsrsNeedsf2P
11 hours ago
This was my experience with the editor as well. For about 2 seconds, I admired how clean it was. I then struggled to read anything at all and haven't reopened it since.
(Edit to get ahead of the comments: I'm sure I can change it. Customization is important. Almost as important as good defaults)
I tried zed for its vertical agent threads grouped by project (which Claude Code has since added) and had the same experience--even after trying a bunch of different themes. It felt like none of the dark themes had enough text contrast.
Maybe my eyes are just getting worse...
My experience with Zed was installing it and giving up after spending 15 minutes or so making the settings sane
It's probably just because I'm old