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

Looking for an alternative to Visual Studio Code that's written in Rust and focused on performance? Zed might be the perfect choice for you... except that it is Mac OS only. Well, it WAS Mac OS only... Now Zed is available on Linux! (It's also available on Windows, but you have to build from code).

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[fanis]

Available on linux and you have to build for windows. What strange time we are?

[in-craig-ible]

Missed opportunity to call it "Zeditor."

[hanzofuma]

Finally. I've been waiting for the Linux version for 13 months.

[typingcat]

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

[GameDevMadeEasy]

I like Zed, had to do a manual build of it on Windows. It was relatively painless to do. Nice to see that there is a build on Linux now.

[DaxSudo]

Fun fact, I am the one who helped port the preview versions to Linux and NixOS. They send me stickers and a sweatshirt for the help.

[wtfisgoingon]

Hey, thanks for making news related to Linux :)

[yds]

Every time I hear "such and such killer, " I roll my eyes. People use multiple IDEs, including Vim and Emacs, which by all predictions should've been obsolete years ago. They're going to keep using VSCode, too, until there's a very convincing reason to abandon it.

[jmacx]

glad to see them finally give the development tool to developers. Edit, in all seriousness all I need in an editor these days is remote shells, workspaces, and compilation helpers, and most of those things start on the underlying system anyways. I've been looking at Zed from afar for a while, so this is all good news. With time any editor's extension library can grow with usage.

[tobeqz]

Its worth noting how good the collaboration mode is in Zed.

Ive used it to work on a 2 week university project with 2 other people. The collaboration mode was incredibly stable and predictable compared to anything I've tried before.

3 people can edit the same line, do a few undos along the way, and the end result will actually make sense.

The only problem as of now is that you cant share a terminal so we went back to good ol' ssh + tmux

[copperbadge]

2:26 I was so ready for that "by the way" to end with "I use Arch", ngl 😅

[Mustlight]

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

[benheidemann]

I’ve been using Zed for a while now. Initially I was concerned that the lack of extensions would be limiting but to my surprise I actually found it quite liberating. My editor feels so much more responsive (which I didn’t realise I would care about but turns out I do) and so much less cluttered. It’s getting to the point now where I am actually recommending it over VSCode for some use cases. In my view, the main limitation it still suffers from is support for dev containers.

[kiyasuihito]

Vscode has always been super laggy, often times unusable even, with intellisense in the godot engine source code. The fact that zed us picking this up is a lifesaver.

[droidJV]

For people on Windows that want to give it a try, on the docs it tells you how to build it yourself, but also tells you how to get a binary from MSYS2 (I had never heard of this software before) and it's a 5 minute process depending on your internet of installing MSYS2, running a command to update and then another command to install the zed binary. As of this comment, the version of Zed you get from doing this is 0.142.6 (the current version for Mac/Linux seems to be 0.143.6).

[AleksandarPopovic]

And that is how it works, just open source, and the programs explode, and people make miracles, this is a strange situation lol, for winning from source, Linux and Mac are very similar you can believe, on Mac, you don't have access to kernel etcetera, but mac is unix, the Linux is typed unix, better unix, that is the other story....This program someone looks like junk, but I make Android apps in Visual Studio code in reason for that is faster from android studio, and now i must try this, good job like always to find out for this, very good video!

[nrxojzy]

Thank you:) I will probably change to Linux in 2025 because of the recall function in win 11, so good to know!

[skaruts]

How's the memory footprint? Apart from speed, my biggest selling point for Sublime (and SublimeMerge) is the remarkably low memory footprint. I can have a whole bunch of instances of it open, and it only still takes about 200k or 300k Mbs memory. My potato likes that a lot.
I wonder how Zed compares. (I don't have linux or mac)

[lpnp]

For now I'll stick with VS Codium but I'm glad to see more applications supporting Linux. Looking at you, Affinity.

[duytdl]

It's easy to be fast when all you're offering is "fast". I'll wait till it serves as many user's diverse needs as vscode does.