Comment by Tepix
Comment by Tepix 4 days ago
So, what‘s Zed?
Comment by Tepix 4 days ago
So, what‘s Zed?
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.
Yup. Their big design goal seemed to just be "speed" for a majority of development. That's it.
Someone posted this in the other zed thread but it looks on par with VS Code in speed according to these results:
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://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'.
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
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.