“Yep, I can't recall how many PRs were closed by the team without merging them. [Last one yesterday](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/55404#issuecomment-5792465973).”
“I do not remember what I wanted to write, but I think the idea is that once these binaries can run, they are free from the sandbox, they can do other stuff themselves. But, yeah, to be hosted by them Zed has to vet them.”
“Zed is just too good particularly snappiness and start-up time. I use a vscode fork antigravity to be precise to resolve merges cos vs code merge editor is just so intuitive and it is how I learnt merge resolutions bit now I want to phase that out switching over to meld and even relying on git merge tool to launch that”
“I liked what zed has to offer, but silently downloading and executing binaries and npm packages without consent makes it unacceptable to introduce inside a company, even for personal use, an editor should never fetch and execute code I didn't approve, and with Nix its even worse because it clashes with nix dev environment.”
“I love zed and maybe im just getting old but I cannot use it because the text and overall ui is just not clear to my eyes. I even wear special glasses for computer use, no matter what theme I try the UI just looks hazy.”
“The feature I feel is most lacking is ACP support. JetBrains, which co-developed ACP with Zed, fully implements the UI that ACP-based agents want to display, whereas the same could not be confirmed in Zed except through raw input.”
“Still use Vscode for now because no jupyter support. But honestly the ram saving from zed is not that much considering all the language server I use are written in JavaScript and eats 8gb ram”
“I think one of the thing that I find appealing to Zed is that it doesn't have powerful extensions that can make the editor unusable. So it's better to have a good editor that does one thing well instead of a swiss knife like vscode that seems to collapse if you install too much extensions or simply poorly written ones.”
“Better vim mode. I've avoided all vim emulators for the real thing until Zed. I'm not h vim power user but some basic things I use regulary aren't supported.”
“Coming from Jetbrains IDE, what I miss most is how well Jetbrains has integrated Git workflows and UI elements around the IDE. From their drop down options for merging and comparing branches and files to their styling of showing Git logs and multiple branches.”
“Zed doesn't have very many bespoke extensions for these like you might find for VS Code, but you should be able to wire it's code runner, LSP, and debugger together with the toolkit your course gives you.”
“The one thing that whenever i get excited and open zed shoota me back to vscode is when i open a project it loads kinda fast but no lsp work or analysis happen until i open a file of the language which is frustrating”
“True its annoying that every other day it will update and then you've read "fix ai yada yada", aside that zed itself has nearly perfect usecase if you disable the auto update and disable ai button.”
“shame, I mostly work on engineering/physics problems and that's easily the biggest missing features of zed. Given how ubiquitous matplotlib and other data analysis stuff is these days I'd assume the same goes for a lot of people”
“I really liked Zed, but customization and working with multiple worktrees in an agentic way was kind of painful. I’ve spend a few days setting up nvim, and I am back at feeling very productive again with all the abilities to customize whatever I need, I am using lazyvim by default, but you can do whatever you need.”
“I'm currently working on and supporting a Zed fork that I use as my daily driver. I'm always looking for input and features that can be added/improved.”
“I like Zed and really want to migrate to it, but for some god damn reason Zed made a decision to change the Open Recent functionality to not switch to existing opened window and only create a new window if none is opened, but instead create a new window every god damn time.”
“Shame it's not integrated in Zed. I switched to Zed exactly to avoid having to use different apps for different things, for example multiple JetBrains IDEs. The Delta features are a great concept, but I still need all the Zed features too 😄”
“A very good alternative I found and that was previously showcased on this Reddit is Lathe but it doesn't have a lot of support. Only one guy so that's on you to trust him or not, I haven't tried it yet but I will probably do it as well because even if I like to code with AI I find myself mostly using codex for AI stuff and Zed when I want to code myself”
“As far as editors go Zed is my favorite. Too bad they can't even get core features like emoji working correctly on Linux.. too busy with other stuff. But with AI progressing as it has been, ADEs will likely replace Editors and IDEs.”
“I’ve been daily driving zed for a few months and see a lot of potential, but every week I find small things that I would really appreciate would get fix/added. Some of them are available in VSCode which is what I used before, others just seem like a good idea or are very annoying and need attention.”