The Zed editor seems kind of silly to me. I would rather my editor works in many possible environments maybe even one that only has a tty interface.

What advantages are people finding with this editor other then high fidelity scrolling.

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linolevan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Early Zed user here.

There’s a lot of small things you’ll hit if you use Zed where it’s a subtlety nicer design point, but one of the big ones for me is project-wide search. Zed’s multibuffers are SO much better than VS Code’s equivalent.

If I’m debugging something on a coworkers laptop, VSCode is mostly usable until I hit that.

If you’re a craftsman, it’s worth trying different tools!

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chiffaa 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A lot of people use VSCode. Zed's value proposition is being basically that but with fully native code, so without the madness that is Electron. If you're not a fan of this kind of tooling, it's totally fine, but many people see the value in having an extensible graphical code editor

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badhorseman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My tone probably came off as antagonistic and that was not my intention. I was interested in if anyone was using the high fidelity graphical features for something other then making the environment prettier.

I am always interested in what features new editors and how people use them and such and if I am missing out.

	▲	pkilgore 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As far as I can tell, no. I moved to zed from nvim for fast starts + better AI UX with edit prediction & agents than nvim without start time/RAM of cursor. It delivered on that, but now that I think about it my coding practices have changed so much since that decision (sitting in Claude / https://www.conductor.build) I should probably just go back to nvim!

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eklavya 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wanted to check the hype, so I installed Zed and opened a go project.

Ram usage:

VS Code 580 MB

Zed 410 MB

I don't see a reason yet to switch away from VS Code, more feature complete and I don't care about scroll speed, it's good enough in vs code.

	▲	r4nd0m4ch 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		what about CPU usage? Overall I agree, it doesn't have enough plugins and is not well supported yet.

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nu11ptr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does Zed have cursor-like tab completion yet?

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tuzemec an hour ago | parent [-]

Yes: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction

	▲	nu11ptr 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks. Have you used cursor or copilot (recently, tab completion has gotten better)? I'm curious how this compares in actual performance. Last time I used Zed, this was a showstopper as the completions were much worse (though if I configure it to use copilot as my source, I guess it should perform the same as VsCode?).