“I was switching between "pure iTerm" with occasional switching to "lite IDE" like Zed/VS Code for light editing work and one of JetBrains "full/heavy IDE" depending on language for debugging sessions as tooling is much better there. But recently I've switched to Orca which seems to have pretty much everything I wanted from agent-friendly editor.”
“personally been a fan of the Zed Editor, it memory leaks like crazy after too many turns for some reason, but each turn can run for hours without intervention, i'll tell qwen3.8 to make a roadmap and execute it step-by-step and it'll keep on working through the night while i'm asleep, which is nice.”
“I love Zed. I have recently been using herdr (a terminal multiplexer with some interesting features for agents), but still find Zed much more useful than terminal editors I can run in herdr such as helix or micro.”
“I've tried GUIs many times (vscode, sublime, atom, zed, bbedit, intellij) but I always end up back in vim with CLI git to the point that I get asked in screen share sessions to just use a GUI.It's all personal preference”
“VSCode just wasn't working for me any more.I considered a bunch of options, including vim or neovim or lazyvim, emacs, newer projects like zed. LLM gave a few more I can't recall including helix and Kate.”
“I've added Windows support (though I don't use it, so the best guarantee I can give you is that tests pass; I did take care of CRLF tho), Zed extension, and a lot of polishing around supporting Bevy specifically (it's both one of the requested things, and a really tough test target, so it worked pretty well and gave me a nice challenge).”
“that is so bad for me even if i use agents still i code with my hand too and predictions making it faster, peoples says hello vscode/github but 200 credit is not enough i don't want to buy openai claude copilot zed etc i already paying a lot.”
“that is so bad for me even if i use agents still i code with my hand too and predictions making it faster, peoples says hello vscode/github but 200 credit is not enough i don't want to buy openai claude copilot zed etc i already paying a lot.”
“I've found that the Zed extension seems to be very undercooked compared to the VSCode extension, I can't even use slash commands to execute skills for example. Unfortunately, the VSCode extension seemed to keep tripping up over it's own edits, back to Antigravity IDE for me.”
“>Wu is built on the Zed engine, so it inherits Zed's editor core, GPU rendering, and language tooling, then strips out everything that isn't editing.”
“I like VS Code, and I think Zed is already much lighter, but Sublime Text still has a different feel: it opens instantly, stays out of the way, and feels like a text editor rather than an environment I have to live inside.”
“However, as a AI harness which is a market segment Zed is explicitly is making inroads into, it absolutely needs math rendering in the chat sessions window and within the markdown preview.”
“Zed, for example, shows me an error in my code, I edit it to fix the error, but Zed still shows me the same error after it has been fixed, so I need to close and open the file again to make the error go away.”