So...nothing.

I think you do not understand the value proposition of Zed.

It is an editor made for people who are used to double-clicking individual files rather than opening a folder in VS Code, so they close and open their editor dozens or even hundreds of times per day.

Let's say VS Code takes 5 seconds to boot.

Some programmers may argue: "yes, I spend 3 hours on a project or just leave it open overnight, so 5 seconds per week is nothing"

But here is not the case, it is for programmers who come from Notepad/Sublime/Notepad++/emacs/vi, and who opens a single file and closes the editor right after.

If you work 2 hours, maybe 4 files per minute, this means 120 * 4 openings = 480 openings.

It means you would have wasted 2400 seconds (40 minutes per day!) waiting for VS Code to open (about 33% of the 2-hour work session spent waiting)

Yes, like with Notepad or Zed, you lose some features like Colors or Syntax checking, but still, time is the most precious thing in life.

For users who come from very advanced but slow text editors like Microsoft Word (used in coding exams: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76102874/single-and-doub... or programming courses: https://youtu.be/0TVugOJtAiU?t=162 ), this is truly revolutionary and life-changing.

Your comment is as insulting as it is indicative of a complete lack of knowledge about the world of editors and software development in general.

Did you miss the point about it being built on a fundamentally better tech stack by a team with a track record of better design decisions?