“VS Code shifting its development focus to agents is what pushed me to switch to other editors, and now Zed is doing the same. Maybe this is the trend, maybe it's the future, but it's still disappointing, especially since in my view, Zed's core parts as an editor still aren't that polished.”
“Like many developers switching from VS Code to Zed, one of the extensions I missed the most was i18n Ally. Since Zed's extension API doesn't yet support custom webview sidebars, I decided to build an alternative tailored to Zed's ecosystem - [https://github.com/BANSAFAn/i18n-zed](https://github.com/BANSAFAn/i18n-zed)”
“I don’t watch Zed development all that much, when I do, it’s always AI-related and/or multiplayer-related, nothing that’s core to the editor that serves the basic user needs. That being said, core can never be ‘complete’, but core being ‘stale’ is a bit of a problem for a relatively new editor.”
“Only reason to use an IDE is for the intellisense and autocomplete, and Zed is 100x faster than VSCode for that. Also you can turn off AI slop on Zed but not on VScode”
“Crazy to me there are still no meaningful integrations to code hosting platforms like PR reviews and issue viewing, not even through extensions. Turned me away from zed even though i like many other aspects of it.”
“I've been using Zed for multiple years now, but I probably haven't written a single line of code myself all year. Zed is basically just my diff viewer at this point (but its a great diff viewer)”
“Follow Zed user here, I stoped using zed as it was like a few months ago and I just made a fork of their code with edits I need, since they are yet to merge my commits.”
“Being a faster editor pulled me towards it sometime back. But I was never able to find the right tooling and proper workflow for C++. So I went back to VSCode.”
“It might be that Zed sends different configuration to the server by default. If you can record the LSP communication (in VSCode it's the command "rust-analyzer: Toggle LSP Logs", not sure how to do that in Zed), you can see the initialization request with the configuration.”
“Since you seem to be a dev (and not a vibe coder) my advice would be to use zed (its harness it really good while still being an IDE) and connect to your local LM studio instance via localhost (when selecting a model you can click on configure > AI > LLM Providers > LM Studio > Configure > Connect).”
“And that is that Zed is not the product. DeltaDB is and always was the product. Zed is just the vehicle that they had to build, so that they could make DeltaDB.”
“I was left with Neovim as the only option (VS Code was too demanding, and Zed wouldn't run at all), but as a beginner it requires investing a lot of time and effort to set up, so I had settled on NvChad as a middle ground.”
“MS and their armies will do their best to deny me, I expect, but all I really need is the reassurance that a large body of developers is finding Zed enabling, and accommodating without the hidden brainwashing agenda VS Code and GitHub Copilot has stated serving.”