There’s a fast new code editor in town

Take a first look at Zed - a fast new code editor written in Rust with AI built in. Learn the pros and cons of this promising new developer tool and compare Zed to VS Code.

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[CTSSTC]

Time to upgrade my monitor to utilize that sweet 120 FPS coding 😂.

[AegirAexx]

You had me until "A Mac only editor..." and sadly then the video was over. Well played sir.

[dilcon]

Extensions will probably be based on wasm to allow maximum range of languages to be written in and not only rust. Remember them talking about it in some podcast

[aleksandarstevanovic]

editor in 120 fps! exactly what i was missing all these years

[musthavechannel]

launches only on mac

"Zed's dead baby"

[richardbennett]

Atom via GitHub was also acquired by Microsoft when it purchased GitHub in 2018, six years ago. And, not surprisingly, Microsoft after first stating Atom development would continue, and it did, until it was halted by Microsoft in June 2022.

[guest]

The memes per second ratio on videos like these is outstanding.

[langobardo]

The "we are here" at 1:13 Is somewhere near Fortaleza Canyon in Cambará do Sul southern Brazil for anyone wondering.

[kasper]

Now the natural next step is to create another text editor in Zig

[livedreamsg]

I've been using it as my main code editor for a little over a week now. It's pretty good. Still missing some pretty critical things for me, though, like seeing what exactly I've changed (compared to the latest commit).

[AlexisDessard]

This video was supposed to make me migrate to Zed but it actually made me discover Cursor and switch instantly from VSC, thanks for helping me think less and earn more in less time 👌

[Noritoshi-rm]

It's scary how much dev ecosystem MS owns. Don't forget your backend in C#!

[scben]

Another one of those neat looking code editors that will soon be forgotten

[fkes]

Damn, i watched the full video only to know there's no extensions and mac only. Well played, fireship!

[ReflexiaVoid]

The fact that it's only available for mac outweighs all of its advantages.

Hopefully, I'll remember to check it out once it becomes available for the platforms I use.

[the_agent_z]

Zed is pretty great. The performance is way faster than vscode with almost instant diagnostics. Though it lacks features such as intuitive config menus, Extensions/Plugins support, Custom themes, Etc. But it does have support for most languages out of the box.

[jakethewoz]

When I used Atom, it made Visual Studio seem fast. Hard to believe the same people made a fast editor

[quintennn]

I've tried it and it works really well.
It's indeed very minimal.

One of the things I really liked was the "onboarding" you get to pick a theme, setup a few things but most importantly choose keyboard shortcuts. You can do intelliJ, vscode and other shortcuts. So you'll feel right at home using the same shortcuts.

Missing features for me:
Git, seeing your git changes visually, a diff, staging unstaging etc the basic like vscode had.
Seeing your current branc name
Stuff like git blame
file icon (there are file icons atm but they are again super minimal an a bit too minimal for me, I want some more color so I can easily see what kind of file it is.)

If they would add at least the above features, I will probably switch from vscode.

[wiintend]

Been using Zed since it was a closed beta, I love how snappy it is. Full featured without the bloat, waiting for the Windows build!

[ravinlimbu]

The performance and minimal design got me hooked. Would've definitely tried it if it was on windows.