Zed – The 'Visual Studio Code Killer' – Now on Linux!

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• If only Codeium work

• I’ve used Zed. It is not going to kill VS Code. It was so bad when I used it I went straight back to vanilla Vim.

  I’ll give it a go again, but six months ago it was awful.

• I’ve used Zed. It is not going to kill VS Code. It was so bad when I used it I went straight back to vanilla Vim.

  I’ll give it a go again, but six months ago it was awful.

• Could you do a video on how you can integrate Zed into the Godot workflow? I mainly want to see how it's done on Linux.

• Or you can check out Lapce which is also written in Rust but has worked on windows and linux from the start and doesn't come come with all the AI jank built in

• To be the vscode killer any IDE will have to provide a plugin eco system.
  IMO this is the main reason for the success of vscode.
  The plugin system ensures that this editor can support any current and future language.

• I think VSCode/Codium is one of the best examples of using Electron. You have wide extensibility while not hugely sacrifice performance. I would take that every-day. Great try but a lot of people stick with VSCode/Codium as it does it's job. To bring people in new editor it should be something on another level rather just editing text.

• Would this work if I use Intel CPU with integrated graphics?

• Is Zed better and easier to use than geany?

• thanks for informing.

• They should have called it "zap"⚡ Because speed is what they chased down the line

• It's great to see an alternative for visual studio code. Hope to see more stuff like this. Keep it up.

• You always have the best software to showcase imo.
  Thank you for letting us know about all these cool software and addons 🎉

• VS Code: Your change will be applied in 40 milliseconds.
  Users: 40 milliseconds? But I want it NOW!

• If I could get affinity on linux then I'd switch from windows. Otherwise idk

• Zed is atleast a year behind to come close to vscode, On many devices it has login issue, extension issue.

• I really want to try Zed. Unfortunately, the unstable nixpkg version runs my CPU up to 90% on NixOS. Happens in both Wayland and X11 DEs/WMs. 🙁 Haven't gotten around to terminal debugging it yet.

• just tried it on arch. can't open project or sign in. kekw I believe I just have a skill issue though

• I installed it on my Debian 12 laptop and didn't find it particularly fast. Although it opens quickly, the linting is extremely slow when writing code. My laptop is a 10-year-old Lenovo, but I don't encounter this issue with VSCode, aside from its slower startup time. I installed zed using the curl command from the website, so do i have to do something more to see the performance of it?

• I was attempting to try out Zed on Void Linux but it seems a dependency may be missing. It doesn't tell me what it is. cannot execute: required file not found

• Ah nice, Zed suddenly becomes much more interesting to me. 😊

• I think many of us don't need those features in VSCode though with the absolute myriad of extensions to fulfill basically every need. I do all my professional work on Linux VMs from a Windows host using the excellent VSCode Remote SSH extension that lets me run it natively (where it is very fast) while doing work on the remote Linux host(s).

• not working on manjaro :/

• This is the first app that comes second to Linux rather than windows I appreciate it…❤

• On official Manjaro repositories there is zed 0.139.3-1. I was waiting for the official confirmation of the team. Now, it is a matter of waiting…

• several things i didn't like the first time i tried zed:
  – ugly UI that takes ages to find anything because there's no menu bar; just lots of small icons on each corner.
  – dark by default.
  – default integration with several online stuff i don't want, mostly github/ms/openai crap.
  – no support for several of the languages i do use everyday (lua, zig, scheme).
  – no "minimap" to quickly see the "shape" of the source.

  but after seeing that the linux release is now "stable", i guess it is being developed on a good pace, so i gave a new try.

  good things:
  – lots of extensions, among them most of the languages it was missing.
  – somewhat usable light themes.

  still all the default integrations, which of course fail because i don't login to any of that… i was looking around to see if there's any way to fully disabling them instead of just letting them fail, and i found some "configuration" which simply opens a json file.

  but as soon as i opened that json file, a message "downloading json LSP…" appeared. hey, i thought it used TreeSitter for that! quick look on the process list… and WTF! it did install nodejs just to run that crap!

  never again.

• 🎉

• It's not vscode killer

• yes it is miles faster than vscode and jetbrains editors but not even close to terminal based in neither in user speed nor in apps speed i could see milisecond diffrences in neovim and zed yes not much and i dont even care its not meant to fight neovim its an good editor and i think it will hvae a good place in the space and a possitive effect at whole but i just cant leave my neovim

• if it uses GPU, does it mean it will consume my already shit laptop battery?

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