Why I switched from VSCode to Zed.

📝 Description
In this video, we take an in-depth look at Zed, a new open-source editor that's faster than Sublime Text and VSCode. We delve into its unique features, built-in support for collaboration, AI integration, and its future plans. If you're curious about the future of coding editors and want to learn more, this video is a must-watch. Will Zed break the monopoly of VSCode? Watch to find out!

⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:29 - Why VSCode is not good anymore
01:50 - What's Zed
02:36 - Why Zed is so powerful
03:08 - Zed Plans
05:43 - Outro

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#vscode #zed #rust

[ignaskavaliauskas]

I see that you are a new channel and don't want to hate on you, but this video is quite useless for anyone looking to switch code editors. Instead of yapping, it would be a lot more interesting to see you actually use the tool and compare it directly to vscode. The main reason vscode is so popular is because of it's plugin ecosystem. You can manage deployments, connect and view database, manage docker containers, has git integration and so on. Can Zed offer this?

[ThomasWSmith-wmxn]

I work on a massive codebase - how is vscode slow? zed doesn't have the autoclose or renaming html/jsx tags and for that reason I really cant use it. kills time and makes things slower. I can get around some of the shortcoming and build my own snippet lib but dang - so many basic things you expect from vscode or any text editor that zed just doens't let you do or have.

[data-engineering-for-all]

Can Zed pull out all the features of vscode and maintain a speed exceeding other code editors like Jetbrains and VsCode

[davidowens]

Have you compared Lapce to Zed? Lapce is also a fast code editor written in Rust.

[einzelltuter]

How did you get vim "useable" or "userfriendly" for a German keyboard?

[GreatTaiwan]

how do you edit yoru videos love the paper style

[everybodyguitar]

The only problem for zed is it lacks of extensions.

[cbbcbb]

Years ago, I took a course in Unix. The instructor insisted tthat we should learn and use vi on the grounds that vi come with every Unix. I learned it though I did nit like. My complaint was that everybody had an internet connection and that there were good editors available that would accommodate anybody's preferences. It annoys me that vi doesn't open defaulted to input mode. Every other editor that I have experience with assumes you want to edit something. After all, its purpose is in their named description. It is the vi *editor* hint hint hint. So, I will look at Zed.

[艾曦-eg]

IMO, zed just support vim mode not vim, because it cannot embed neovim which hinders me from adapting zed editor.

[OfficialChiller]

Seitdem im Oktober Zed für Linux veröffentlicht wurde, nutze ich das nur noch in meinem Elektrotechnik-Studium, extremes Tool. Ich hoffe allerdings das in Zukunft noch Plattformio das ganze ach akzeptiert bzw. eine extension dafür erstellt und das z.B. Laravel mehr Extensions hinzufügt (neben PHP Intellisense)

[eddyTennis]

If speed is such an issue, then why not consider (neo)vim? It is fast and already has a great eco system.

[Kaptime]

It's impressive, closer in performance to something like Vi/m, Kakoune, Helix than VSCode. I still prefer Helix but for something more like a full IDE and all the AI, multicursor, modes, collab features it's great.

[DeveloperLeon]

Personally, I've been really enjoying Helix lately. I liked the idea of Neovim and tried the switch but the motions did not feel natural to me. The Helix motions do feel much more natural to me though. Helix is also written in Rust, so it has great performance, and has most of the core features baked in, so very little config needed compared to Neovim. I'd be quite interested to give Zed another try if it could implement Helix mode.

[tylert]

can you make a video showing how to get ollama to work with zed

[Taddy_Mason]

Are people really hitting performance limitations on VS code? If one is working on a huge monorepo with thousands of files and billions of lines of code, then perhaps. I have a heavily modded vscode with more plugins than the npm registry and i honestly don't notice any performance hits...sure it might consume 5x the memory of the next "lean" code editor but i also have 32gb of memory on my dev mac. I suppose what I'm trying to say here is that a simple (or even substantial) performance gain is not a significant incentive to ditch VS code.

[charlesbcraig]

I had skill issues setting up NeoVim but found LunarVim, which has most features already added (VSCode for bigger projects). I run an old MacBook Pro Retina early 2013 (what a tank!) and the text in Zed turns to gibberish when I scroll. I believe this is due to my GPU not being supported :/ I’ll upgrade when the M9 chips come out :D

man when hear people say vscode is slow, it sounds weird to me. My lazyvim nvim is so slow compared to vscode, I am shoked!

[jackreacher]

Mac only != VS Code killer...
Who is paying all these youtube coders to advertise a software which is mac only...

[lMINERl]

Zed is a meh i dont think ppl will switch to it anytime soon cause it doesnt add anything new unlike terminal based editor ( vim / neovim / helix) plus it doesn't have lunix and windows
I think ppl who need to switch from vscode are who looking for productivity improvement while writing code

[Nightwulf]

Hi and thanks for the video. I just started to try Zed out and configure it especially because I'm coding in Zig and VS/OSS-Code are pretty slow and sluggisch with code completion and so on. The speed is amazing and I love it already for that. But what is really a pain for me is the lack of a debugger integration with lldb or gdb. Would have been a higher priority as having AI integration. To be honest: for me that never helped with anything and I have my doubts it will play a big role in development after the current hype.