“I have heard of zed and tried it for a couple of weeks. Yes it is snappy, lightweight and minimal, which is to my liking. However, it is still lacking in many areas and the devs are not responding to PRs that tries to address the gaps in the editor.”
“How does Zed compare to the tab completion in Cursor ("Cursor-tab")? It's honestly the only reason I have stuck with cursor in spite of the UI/UX being worse every single time I update it.”
“Then I read that, and also review relevant pieces of code in Zed.I tried using Cursor, many of my colleagues use it, but stopped using it due to clunkiness. And of late, even in there, many of my colleagues use agentic coding.”
“I just switched to free. I’ll use Zed’s hosted model until I can’t. I already have zeta2 running locally on llama.cpp on 2 RX 9070 XTs and it’s only slightly slower than the hosted one.”
“So last month, I submitted a PR for an extension which is a zed port of friendly-snippets plugin from neovim but it has not been approved since then and I have not received any conversation regarding any approval or rejection of the extension.”
“However, if you really can't overcome the learning curve, there is Kate, KDevelop, VSCode/VSCodium, JetBrains IDEs, Helix, and Zed (and several Zed forks with the AI ripped out if you prefer)”
“since you don't have time to learn vim/nvim, you should try Zed IDE, its a GUI IDE like vscode but not built on top of a electron and it have a ton of good features too!”
“I'm giving the Zed editor an honest shot, and Laravel LSP is working fine. But getting PHPStan errors displayed in the editor is proving to be quite a challenge, even for Opus 5.”
“When I use other LLM provider in Zed that has an API integration and use the native Agent, it has better support on small things, such as current context limit, automatic compaction, sandbox and looks overall a bit better.”
“for that , while zed has mostly covered all my needs this part still drive me nuts especially that ai agents love to do mermaid diagram horizontally and the lack of a slider or a internal zoom in and out component means i have to rely on another app to manage that simple thing (mostly any electron based note taking app )”
“Zed renders Mermaid diagrams natively... However the parser doesn't appear to be complete yet for all documents types, and the rendered image looks very little like the way that major platforms present them like GitHub or Gitlab, so you can end up with diagrams that look wildly different than you expect when they're published.”
“I would be an absolute dream to just have it built into zed. I looked into trying to create a zed plugin for this, but it doesn't seem possible with the level of access plugins have to the editor”
“Zed is really awesome, if it wasn’t I would use something else. Complaining that they seem to have a different agenda then the community is beating a dead horse (or whatever the saying is) at this point…so yeah wohooo for even nicer readmes”
“I much prefer VS Code than Zed for that though. Everything just works without weird annoying bugs and basic UX issues everywhere (and the md previews look better to me as well)”