What people previously said about Zed

“Zed is good”

“Zed is best”

“Zed + Pi is the way to go”

“there is literally a toggle button to turn off all ai in Zed.”

“I keep an eye on Zed development because as soon as it adds a few more quality of life improvements around VCS tooling I’m going to switch. If I had the expertise I’d contribute to Zed to make it happen.”

“Zed”

“Try gram. It's zed without the ai shit.”

“If you are using rust, I think the best option is zed or neovim.”

“Zed 80% RustRover 20%”

“It’s zed for me”

“Zed only.”

“Built in Rust by the people behind Atom and Tree-sitter, it trades Electron bloat for native speed, real multiplayer editing, and AI woven into the core.”

“Zed”

“Quickly browsing files Zed, feature development RustRover, code review GitComet”

“I have debated trying Zed...still haven't pulled the trigger though.”

“I use Zed + CMUX”

“If so, what IDE/editor do you mainly use for Rust? VS Code, JetBrains, Zed or something else?”

“Claude, Cursor, Hermes, Zed - every single app I use that ships codes to users has been carrying some big ass regretion on every release.”

“Sad that the focus (globally, not just Zed) is not on code editing anymore.”

“I've been using Zed since its launch on Windows. It's a good, fast, and snappy editor, but it all falls apart when you have to deal with annoying interruptions while just **writing the darn code**.”

“I think zed might have the features I’d want, it’s just the equivalents from helix -> zed’s helix mode aren’t all mapped out”

“I would recommend Zed editor.. Way snappier than electron based VSCode. It has built-in python support if I remember correctly.”

“I see that astra is slow in codex but pretty fast in zed ide”

“Zed is insanely cool, but it lacks a lot of things you are use to have in VSC. The Ux is cluncky yet and no viable extensions ... I love you Zed, but Zed don't love me enough ...”

“Do you know if it is possible to have tool calls be auto-collapsed in Zed? I haven't found any setting for it yet but I am also stuck on 1.14.x due to the Github Enterprise Copilot Issue.”

“I wonder why the zed team left us to suffer by looking at all white text. Hopefully they make delta markdown more fun to read.”

“Zed is amazing”

“I'm using mostly GPT-5.4 High on codex on Zed editor, as it is quite token-efficient and more than enough for 95% of my coding tasks. But to my great disappointment, since gigantic Astra has added, only GPT-5.4-mini is available, which is not as good as 5.4.”

“Zed works in a similar way in this respect. It provides an IDE/workspace around external agents such as Codex, while the actual agent and its own context/harness remain separate.”

“This is the outline panel (https://zed.dev/docs/outline-panel, Ctrl+Shift+B), especially useful with project search to have results displayed as a folder tree view, like VS Code.”

“Just switched to Zed and it made me realise how sluggish VSCode and forks actually are. That feeling of instantness is amazing.”

“I tried zed but I'm back to vscode”

“Zed if you don’t vibe with vs code and electron apps”

“Even the free version of Zed is a nice place to run terminals and see the files. I use Zed but no AI features from it.”

“is it Safe for me to use Claude Code in Zed”

“Also yeah, I guess I owe Zed Mono an apology lol. You were right 😂”

“It has a subscription build in it? For once my gut feeling was right after I spend like 1h with that editor.”

“Some of us prefer Zed, VS Code, or Cursor alongside AGY 2.0.”

“VS Code or Zed”

“Zed decided to remove edit predictions from their free plan and I want to host something locally to replace it.”

“Welp. Claude code in zed has frozen and crashed 3 times this morning”

“I also did some pairing sessions with the team and they were really helpful, over time i got familiar with GPUI by looking at how Zed does things.”

“A real Agent Client Protocol server for editors like Zed.”

“Try Zed if you want to save some ressources.”

“It is a fast editor that can process large documents easily.”

“If you are using Zed then Zeta2.1 with the Zeta prompt should include the current diff as well, which helps.”

“I use zed and claude code for now”

“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.”

“Zed is a fast, lightweight alternative to VS Code and Cursor”