zed

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. (by zed-industries)

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  • Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2025
    While you're here...

    https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14203

    Would be a massive win that's fairly narrow in scope. More generally, being able to send arbitrary LSP commands to the server and see the response, even if it's just a text dump, would be super useful.

    Love the project! I would say the only thing stopping me from moving over full time is a Git porcelain, but I'm sure you guys know that. Keep up the great work!

  • Zed (Editor) Has Suddenly Become Terrible, IMHO
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2025
    Sorry you had this experience with Zed. We've seen a few reports of issues with our python integration (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23170, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/22426), and we'll be taking a look at these next week :)
  • I still like Sublime Text in 2025
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 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/).
  • Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2025
    Just last week some hero claimed to be adding helix keybindings to zed (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4642#issuecomme...). Golly I hope they succeed.
  • Things people get wrong about Electron
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2025
    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 better solutions than Electron. For instance, the Tauri project ( https://tauri.app/ ) is a lightweight alternative to Electron.

    The article defends the minimum application bundle size of 100MB-300MB is as no issue, because streaming 4K video takes much more bandwidth than such a software download. But the bigger issue than disk space or download bandwidth is the RAM usage and overall low performance of Electron projects. Even with a 16 GB or 32 GB RAM system, when you're running many apps and doing serious multitasking, the gigabytes quickly get used up and then things slow down.

    For example, if you have used VSCode, try using the Zed editor (https://zed.dev/). You will be blown away by its incredible speed. Launches in the blink of an eye, and it responds to every input with zero latency. We have forgotten that software can actually be fast.

    Jonathan Blow, "Will Software Stop Getting Slower?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ka549NNdDk

  • Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large texts. in Rust
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2025
    Zed seems to be a gui-oriented editor here: https://zed.dev/
  • Writting a GH extension with AI
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Jan 2025
    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.
  • Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2024
    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

    1: https://zed.dev/

  • Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2024
  • Windsurf vs Cursor: which is the better AI code editor?
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Dec 2024
    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.
  • A note from our sponsor - Nutrient
    nutrient.io | 15 Feb 2025
    Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free. Learn more →

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zed-industries/zed is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of zed is Rust.


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