Wow. This might be the 1st time i've seen someone comment negatively regarding UI performance. Zed is one of the fastest programs i use. I used to laugh when seeing them market fps and such, but yeesh it's fast

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hu3 6 days ago | parent [-]

> Wow. This might be the 1st time i've seen someone comment negatively regarding UI performance

Here you go: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> I found Copilot tab completion completion to be VERY slow in Zed, for some reason.

> Zed still takes a relatively long time to start on my old desktop. I thought something was wrong but no, it is just THAT slow

> I have tried it out and by default it was so slow as to be unusable. After discovering it required some customization in /etc (because it's the only GUI application that fails to recognize my GPU on a very popular distro with next to zero customization, because I game a lot on Linux - weird how that's a me problem and not a Zed problem) it got better, but still noticeably slower than VS Code.

> I mean, good AI tab completion feels like a super power. Zed’s is not that good. It’s slow and normally not at all what I want.

> Zed tab is a lot worse in comparison (partly because it’s slow)

> In my personal experience I couldn't use Zed for editing python. Firstly, when navigating in a large python repository, looking up references was extremely slow (sometimes on the order of minutes).

> All I'm saying is that contrary to what someone else said about the software being "fast" I tried it and at startup, it was unusably slow.

> Tried using zed on Linux (pop os, Nvidia) several months ago, was terribly slow, ~1s to open right click context window.

> Zed is as close as it gets, I also use it, but it is still slow and cumbersome sometimes.

I'll stop here. There are other 4 pages of comments to pick anecdotes from, in this simple search alone.

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cyanf 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

The other examples you listed are valid, but A.I tab auto complete is a model & inference issue unrelated to the editor.

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rvnx 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

It is a feature that they control. Whether it comes from the model, a bad prompt, a bad provider or a bug in their implementation is their responsibility (especially considering you have to pay per-request AI features).

	▲	cyanf 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That’s true if we’re evaluating Zed as a product, but the GP is discussing Zed U.I perf specifically.

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fkyoureadthedoc 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Idk if 'linux + gpu = problem' is surprising or very relevant either.

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coder543 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Here you go

That is a list of search results of people complaining that VS Code is slow compared to Zed.

	▲	hu3 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		There are tons of complains about zed performance there. Do you think messages like this are talking about VSCode performance? > In my personal experience I couldn't use Zed for editing python. Firstly, when navigating in a large python repository, looking up references was extremely slow (sometimes on the order of minutes).