| ▲ | Tepix 5 days ago |
| So, what‘s Zed? |
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| ▲ | yobert 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | spagoop 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Zed's dead, baby. Zed’s dead. |
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| ▲ | jks 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | andrewmcwatters 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | efilife 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It wasn't an AI editor for a long time | | |
| ▲ | TheCraiggers 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Yup. Their big design goal seemed to just be "speed" for a majority of development. That's it. |
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| ▲ | athenot 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed. | | |
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| ▲ | dmit 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | barbazoo 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | ricardobeat 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Spiritual successor to Sublime Text. They’ve been doing a lot of AI stuff but originally just focused on speed. https://zed.dev/ |
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| ▲ | Jtsummers 5 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | ricardobeat 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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'. | | |
| ▲ | eviks 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Isn't extensible plugin API part of ST spirit? (so zed can't be a successor until its spirit incorporates a similar one) |
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| ▲ | lexoj 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Its funny how the same guy who wrote (borderline) the slowest editor, went ahead and built the fastest. Practice makes perfect I guess :) |
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| ▲ | Scarbutt 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | skrtskrt 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | jen20 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | zwnow 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sorry I couldn't hear you through the nvim startup time and keyboard noises while you are waiting for your IDE to start | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Who restarts their IDE all the time? I take more than that to fetch a coffee down the kitchen area. | | |
| ▲ | fidotron 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | > Who restarts their IDE all the time? Android developers reindexing. | |
| ▲ | jen20 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Depends which IDE. IntelliJ stays open permanently. When I used full-fat visual studio it would crash so often that I’d have developed an even worse caffeine problem had I fetched coffee every time it needed restarting. | |
| ▲ | timeon 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Is this the reason why people say that 8gb is not enough for writing some code? | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Nah, Electron is the reason, my first real IDEs were the whole suite of Borland IDEs for MS-DOS and Windows 3.x. |
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| ▲ | mosburger 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Who restarts their IDE all the time? Xcode users laugh nervously. |
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| ▲ | Ygg2 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | skrtskrt 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Famous indicator of software quality: how fast an editor opened to write it. | | |
| ▲ | 0x457 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Sometimes my ADHD kicks in while Intellij launches and I forget what I was working on. | | |
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| ▲ | tonyedgecombe 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Harsh but true. |
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