Zed Reviews and details

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• OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

  Have you compared helix to zed (https://zed.dev/)? I want something VSCode-ish, could never really get used to vim myself. But definitely don't want something built on Electron, it's too bloated. Zed and Helix are both built in Rust without Electron, which is already promising. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• I Use Kate Editor

  TIL about Kate editor, but after 30 years of just using vi in a terminal (Unix, Mac, even Windows in cmd.exe) I switched to Zed editor (https://zed.dev). I had tried other editors in the past, but quickly fell back to vi/vim after a few hours or days, for various reasons. Been using Zed for a couple of months now and no plans to go back. It also uses LSPs, but whenever I connect to some (Linux) dev host from Zed... - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Handle remote tool calling with Model Context Protocol

  MCP hosts MCP hosts handle communication between the servers and client, for example, in the form of a chat application or IDE. Popular hosts include Claude Desktop, Zed, and Sourcegraph Cody. See MCP: Example clients for the complete list of supported hosts/clients. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• Exploring Zed: The Lightning-Fast Code Editor Built in Rust

  It is currently available for macOS and Linux, with Windows support on the roadmap. You can download it directly from zed.dev or install it via your package manager. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• What Does a Developer Advocate Do?

  And there a host of VC-funded startups focused on AI integration such as Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, and many more. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Best AI Code Editors in 2025

  Finally, an editor that isn't another VS Code fork! Zed is something different - a blazing fast editor built from the ground up in Rust, focused on raw performance and clean design. They were a bit late to the AI party, only launching their AI features in August 2024, and are still catching up with features that other editors have had for a while. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Alternative to VS Code?

  Seconding IntelliJ. It's not just an IDE for Java: the ultimate edition has first-class support for Go, Rust, Typescript, and Python. And it has jump to definition, see documentation, etc. IMO it has more quality-of-life features and they are are faster and fail less than VSCode's. The main downside of IntelliJ is that it can be memory-intensive and slow, although perhaps not as much as your VSCode. Anecdotally,... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Is the Zed editor open source?

  I wanted to give Zed (https://zed.dev / https://github.com/zed-industries/zed) a try. I downloaded a binary release from https://zed.dev/releases/stable and I'm presented with LONG license agreement. I'm particularly alarmed by this section: > 2.2. License Limitations. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Zed (Editor) Has Suddenly Become Terrible, IMHO

  The code editor, Zed (https://zed.dev) started out as the best thing since the hayday era of Sublime Text. Over the past 3 months, it's become the worst piece of software I've ever used. I'm running a 2019 late MacBook Pro, so not the latest and greatest, but Zed often consumes so much CPU that my fan runs on full blast. It freezes up, the editor features (like Python checking based on pylsp, etc.) often don't... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• I still like Sublime Text in 2025

  Nobody mentionned Pulsar (https://pulsar-edit.dev/) which is the community maintained Atom since its sunsetting (Dec 2022). Atom was created by Nathan Sobo, who is now working on Zed (https://zed.dev/). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• I still like Sublime Text in 2025

  I was 100% with you... Until 3 days ago I tried [Zed](https://zed.dev) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Things people get wrong about Electron

  In the article, the claim is made: if many popular software products like Slack, VSCode, and Docker Desktop all use Electron, then it must be good. In response, I would say: while Electron makes it easy for the software developer to build and distribute software, especially on multiple platform, as an end user it is NEVER the best experience. That's why there are people spending significant effort to develop... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large texts. in Rust

  Zed seems to be a gui-oriented editor here: https://zed.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Writting a GH extension with AI

  I was always the type of person who didn't care too much about AI as I felt That it was not worth it to use it to do the job that I was supposed to do. That changed drastically when I started using zed and it's Awesome AI integration. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'

  I like the build of Iosevka that the Zed editor people made, called Zed Mono. It's hosted on github [0] but there are no screenshots. You can see kind of how it looks in the screenshots of their editor on their website though [1] 0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Windsurf vs Cursor: which is the better AI code editor?

  Fortunately though, unlike the Zed editor, Windsurf and Cursor are forks of VS Code. This means you have access to the massive VS Code extension marketplace. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building state machine library with help from AI tools

  On the other hand, I am still in search of a lighter editor, and zed does catch my attention. However, since my Surface Book 2 died recently, I am only left with a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7FE when I am away from my home office. Hence, vscode with a web frontend (and it is surprisingly usable) connected to my workstation is still my main editor (it even works with the neovim extension). - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Setting up Zed for Elixir development 💧

  It's been a while since I use VS Code to develop elixir applications, and so far, it has been a great tool, especially when using extensions like ElixirLS, Phoenix Framework, Jump to Test, and others. But like all tools, it has some bottlenecks, and for me, the bottleneck is when working with large projects, where I need to switch between branches multiple times during the day. Because of that, I started to... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Must-have apps and services in 2024

  Zed is my second editor. I use it as much as I can because it's a very lightweight and well-built tool. VSCode wins when I need to debug in Go because it's better prepared for that. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Thoughts on ThoughtWorks Radar 2024

  Excited to try the Zed IDE despite VSCode having it’s clutches on me, namely because built-in pair programming, super fast speed, and because the Roc lang creator joined their team. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: Best Set Up for AI Coding?

  Https://zed.dev/ You can also configure Supermaven or Copilot for Zed and whatever LLM model you prefer for Zed's Assistant and Inline Assistant. But Aider makes these tools a bit irrelevant. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago