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.

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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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azemetre 5 days ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	nicce 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Depends how you measure it. At least my battery lasts hour longer when using Zed and when comparing to VSCode. Also, the link is almost 1,5 years old.