I just run it in the terminal, every time I tried their integration it was missing a feature or it was easier to read on a terminal

&gt; It would be great if it supported more commands though!What does it not support? I want to try and figure out if its shortcomings in the ACP&#x2F;Claude SDK or if it&#x27;s just features that Zed has yet to support?

Yes - the Claude ACP is nice, as I like to have a view of the code while chatting. Using just the terminal for dense&#x2F;long running work feels like a handicap imo. It would be great if it supported more commands though!

I used to run Claude code on terminal on zed. But the memory usage would balloon eating all my ram 128gb and have to kill the session every other day. I moved back to vscode. I don’t know if they addressed it

It works &#x27;well&#x27; with Claude Code, but you&#x27;re going to be missing a lot of features. There&#x27;s no display for sub-agents&#x2F;teams, no ability to clear the context without starting a whole new thread window, no ability to view the current context or usage, etc. There&#x27;s also no built-in ability to view or change the model&#x27;s current effort level, which I think is a current limitation with the SDK.I tried it for a bit and it was definitely usable and I got a few features built out, but I eventually moved back to using CC in the terminal. I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re working on it, though.

Does &quot;local Ollama&quot; or OpenRouter count? I fell into using Zed because there was zero sign-up friction when trying to set up a connection to a local Ollama LLM. Literally &quot;drop-down, select the model you want&quot;Once I got that running on my machine it was also easy (literally a drop-down+ API key) to switch and explore using models on OpenRouter.

I use it a lot with Claude Code.It lacks a lot of features, but IMO feels less &quot;busy&quot; than the terminal version, which I like.Very recently Zed also gained support for parallel sessions, which is nice.
In general it&#x27;s very obvious that a lot of effort goes into improving it, and it gets better with every release.

It works well but there are a lot of missing features
* skill auto complete
* custom agents
* sub agents
* background process management

They both work very well. My only complaint is that you can&#x27;t use them to generate commit messages using the Git Panel (have to do it inside the Agent Thread instead), and &#x2F;compact seems to have issues so you will often need to start a new thread (this wasn&#x27;t an issue in the past so hopefully it will get fixed soon).

Does anybody have experience running Claude Code or Codex in Zed?

Don&#x27;t need to create an issue, both have had issues for them for 2 years.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9057" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9057</a>
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;issues&#x2F;12629" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;issues&#x2F;12629</a>

&gt; 1.0 doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;done&quot;. It also doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;perfect&quot;Create issue in the Zed Github repository?

The colour issue also affects MacOS - every time I open VSCode it strikes me just how more vibrant the exact same colours are, rendering there.

1.0 and still has the wrong colours when ran in Wayland and lacks bitmap font support.

Bravo! I&#x27;ve enjoyed using Zed and seeing its progress. Still waiting on python notebook support.

i investigated this yesterday and there is one cmake extension. It gives basic support to cmake. Not as neat as vscode&#x2F;jetbrains&#x2F;qt&#x2F;vs but it works. It is depends on CMakePresets.json and has no gui etc.

does this support plugins? How does it integrate with cmake projects?

Tabs will still be supported. Also, when you search for references, it also opens a new tab, even when all references are in the same file.

in emacs with embark you can export the contents of an ephemeral buffer into a persistent one, which is the best of both worlds and more besidesfor file search, edit in the persistent buffer can rename filesfor grep, edits in the persistent buffer edit across filesand so on

Whereas I&#x27;m not a great fan of modals for anything where I&#x27;d like to refer back to what I&#x27;m working on.  I guess I&#x27;d just prefer some tabs to open as a split by default and close with esc, maybe call them something like &quot;ephemeral tabs&quot;?  Basically, steal some ideas from emacs.

That was og sublime&#x2F;textmate behavior that I grew to miss with vscode, so was pleasantly surprised to see it exists in Zed.

Agreed, this is the main reason why I keep switching back to other editors.

I love it too, but instantly knew it would be polarizing the first time I used it :)

Same, and then sometimes I navigate back to it again when I need it. The multi-cursor edit in the search results is a thing a beauty as well.

Huh, I absolutely love Zed’s search UI. I just navigate back to my previous tab with ctrl-o when I’m done

&gt; Also now they&#x27;ve introduced this &quot;agent first&quot; layout which i cannot undoYou can just collapse the sidebar with the agentic stuff.

yeah its quite silly they decided to mess around with this universally standard behaviour. The search is the reason why i always end up going back to other vs code based IDEs for real work. I open zed for perf reasons and something quick.Also now they&#x27;ve introduced this &quot;agent first&quot; layout which i cannot undo. They&#x27;re strength is in perf, idk why try to reinvent the wheel w.r.t DX.

I also disliked that and discovered you can toggle it with config now :).

I love the search in zed. If it was up to me it would open a new tab on every search rather than reusing the same tab, so that I didn&#x27;t have to redo past searches.The multibuffer result is so nice for &quot;hands-on&quot; search and replace.

&gt; When you search, Zed opens a new tab, which I hate.You also have to validate the search, it doesn&#x27;t start off immediately on its own, which annoys me a lot more.

They both use ripgrep, weird for it to be slower? Especially with the multibuffer it&#x27;s more pleasant to use

This. I tried Zed for an entire month, but this &quot;search thing&quot; drove me nuts. It is also slow. If you work in a large project search is absolutely essential. Too bad.. Back to Visual Studio Code.

No, Zed&#x27;s extension API is very limited at the moment. In particular, it does not allow adding any new GUI elements.

I know not much about Zed and I am curious, can such changes be implemented via extensions?

Just look at the PR, it&#x27;s shows how it will look like. It&#x27;s modal instead of a persistent tab.

Look at how Jetbrains IDEs do it. It&#x27;s a solved UX problem, as far as I&#x27;m concerned.Jetbrains opens up a lightweight floating panel which can also be docked. So you can choose how to view the results. Like Zed, the results view is live editable, even when searching across multiple files.The floating panel mode is good because you can do a quick search, look at it, and just whisk it away with one key. Opening results as a tab isn&#x27;t terrible, but mixes one UI (search, very ephemeral) with another (editing, less ephemeral). (Zed also has this thing where search results also show in the right-hand side panel, which I&#x27;ve always found confusing.)Another thing Jetbrains does better here is to remember your search settings. Your last search is always the default, whereas Zed forgets it every time. Jetbrains also has really nice file scoping via a dropdown, so it&#x27;s very quick to search all non-test files, for example.Zed keeps stealing great features from Jetbrains, so I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s just a matter of time before this gets better.

&gt; How else are you going to have “a quick glance at code” across project files without using a new view for that?By showing the text around match inline with the search result in the tree. Especially useful if you do not expect to edit every search result. If you do expect to edit every search result, then Zed&#x27;s multibuffer is arguably better&#x2F; faster.

&gt; Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape.How else are you going to have “a quick glance at code” *across* project files without using a new view for that? It sounds like you’re describing something impossible.Zed’s across files search solves this in a similar way as other tools. Except that in zed you can also edit the code where your search results show up. Zed also has within file search.

I can’t relate to that, I’ve also struggled with this decision for quite some time, but I’ve gotten used to it. What I hate is that it doesn’t open several search tabs if I need to look for several things at once.

I use the television task described here (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hidden-gems-part-2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;hidden-gems-part-2</a>) for that experience :)

They have presets from other IDEs and editors. I use a weird combination of Jetbrains and helix shortcuts with helix mode. Because I used them the most.

I was like: &quot;it should be Ctrl+Shift+H, of course, right?&quot;So different tastes :-)What you describe later is &quot;Auto-populate the find dialog with current text under cursor&quot;. VSCode has a setting for that; I guess Zed will eventually end upnadeing one too.

Personally I don&#x27;t hate tab. Sometimes even it&#x27;s more convenient to have a tab on the side with all the state, instead of reopening modal.What I hate though is really unintuitive and &quot;non-standard&quot;[1] shortcuts in search tab.For example &quot;find in project&quot;: cmd+shift+fWhereas for &quot;find and replace in project&quot; I&#x27;d expect: cmd+shift+r , but it&#x27;s: first toggle find, then toggle find and replace. Ok, absolutely fine, but the keyboard shortcut to toggle is: cmd+shift+h - I never can remember it.When already searching, for my &quot;convenience&quot;, if I&#x27;d like to adjust my search or search for something new, I click cmd+shift+f and I am focused back to find input, but here&#x27;s the kicker. Input have automatically changed to what word was under my cursor. So if I was looking for some long or weird string, I need to retype it again or find and copy&#x2F;paste it again.#first-world-problems though.I got tired of babysitting vim&#x2F;neovim and all it&#x27;s plugins and use Zed for most of my editing. It has pretty good vim binding support and maybe I just need to remap some key bindings to have better search experience. Zed is much better at emulating vim than Cursor&#x2F;VSCode.[1] there&#x27;s no standard obviously, but some things are the same&#x2F;similar across most programs.

Too bad they did not include better search UI into this release.When you search, Zed opens a new tab, which I hate.
Sometimes I just want to have a quick glance at some code and close the search using escape.Telescope style search in vim, helix or JetBrains tools is so much better.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;pull&#x2F;46478" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zed-industries&#x2F;zed&#x2F;pull&#x2F;46478</a>

If the idea of hiding extra Markdown elements or making it more WYSIWYG appeals to you, maybe we can put more eyes on some kind of feature request. I&#x27;ve seeing several comments come at this from different angles: ?id=47950471 ?id=47950748

Generating images inside the agent threads would be huge. I always feel sad when I have to open ChatGPT to generate my images.

Congratulations! I’ve been very happy with Zed for the past year or so.I’m hoping the roadmap contains support for even more things that extensions can do, such as rendering images or Markdown in-editor.

Umm… zed supports remote dev over ssh… what’s your concern?

Such a pity remote dev containers are critical for me. I guess some SSH tunneling could help with it...

Thanks for the info. Kill ring support is definitely a must for me, I care a lot less about macros. I&#x27;ll keep an eye out for it!

I&#x27;ve got emacs keybinds in my muscle memory and Zed works well for me, although there&#x27;s no kill ring and the macro system is nothing like emacs. The former will be added at some point (there&#x27;s an open PR), but I do not expect the latter will ever be comparable.

How is their emacs keymap support? I tried VSCode for a while but switched back to emacs because it was so slow and the keymap was not very good. I&#x27;ve been intending to try Zed but emacs is working well enough so the motivation isn&#x27;t really there yet..

Thank you for the tips. I didn&#x27;t know it was possible to install other themes as extensions.

I do agree that Zed&#x27;s default themes aren&#x27;t great. They look too &#x27;plain&#x27; for my taste. Bit more contrast can&#x27;t hurt either.BUT: It&#x27;s very easy to just choose a different theme and there are plenty to choose from by now. It&#x27;s even possible to make your own theme and they even have a first-party theme editor (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;theme-builder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;theme-builder</a>) which works great. They should maybe include some descriptions for each color instead of just the name but that&#x27;s the only negative thing I can say right now.I&#x27;d even say that it&#x27;s easier to theme Zed than VSCode because there are fewer variables.

As far as I can tell you can theme nearly everything in the app. I&#x27;ve got custom colors for diffs and some syntax, and my base theme is ripped from Monokai.

And the icons are too small. It&#x27;s vaguely a mystery meat navigation.

Personally Cursor feels like a vibe coded slop these days, I canceled the subscription and went back to vscode with AI features off. Claude Code is my third hand and that&#x27;s it. I need to try Zed though, I remember Atom changed the way I use text editors, I&#x27;m certain Zed will provide the same experience.

Cursor has the best default dark theme IMOIt also has a much better edit prediction model than Zed

I really like the jetbrains theme you can install in Zed. Give it a shot!

The only thing that bothers me about Zed is the theme. It&#x27;s so bland it actually gives me reading difficulties. I&#x27;d be surprised if some of the color combinations don&#x27;t pose an accessibility issue. Grey text on grey background is quite the choice.

Congratz to the team. I really like zed and started using it quite early, loved the text threads and was using them a lot as I don&#x27;t think llms fit in a box of only agents, they were a nice way to manage conversations, work through them, edit responses to lead the agent better, copy-paste full text, sad to see them go (text threads).I&#x27;m trying right now the ACP with my own agent and I&#x27;m of mixed opinions but that&#x27;s maybe because I care how my agent works. I believe that for the agent view a plain buffer with small ui elements would be the best ui for an agent conversation but I may have been spoiled by their text threads. I may spin a personal fork but the thought of tens of mins of compile time isn&#x27;t that attractive.Edit: I realized I started moving to terminal based editors like helix due to agents: claude -&gt; codex -&gt; custom pi, with the open sourcing of warp I was considering making a native integration for warp + pi but now I&#x27;m thinking zed&#x27;s text threads (~17k lines) + pi might be a better way, any thoughts or ideas?

Good for them, but I wish they&#x27;d hurry up and catch up on some of the big missing features. Really hoping they&#x27;ll accept my PR to add the missing call hierarchy feature before the GitHub issue turns 2 years old :)

This was reported for Blender&#x2F;Wayland, they might be able to use a fix like this:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.blender.org&#x2F;blender&#x2F;blender&#x2F;commit&#x2F;eaf63a35ae0b526c0cf8358f4d30b74dfe47da43" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.blender.org&#x2F;blender&#x2F;blender&#x2F;commit&#x2F;eaf63a35...</a>

Yes that was the primary issue I had when testing Zed in the past. Keyboard layout not working properly, shortcuts being unusable or un-remappable. Sad to see it&#x27;s still the case for 1.0

Shortcuts still don&#x27;t work on non-Latin keyboard layouts on Linux. For people who use languages with non-Latin writing systems, this is a show-stopper.(there is, of course, a rich tradition of text editors with the same issue, including Vim and Emacs. They 1) have an excuse; 2) provide both workarounds and their own input method systems. Having this in a new program is nuts.)

Congrats to the Zed team! I really like your editor and it works surprisingly well, althought there are a few rough edges still with the python experience.The debugger in Python FastAPI and mainly Django is not working as expected. Hopefully soon will be fixed.

Congrats guys! I&#x27;ve been using zed since a few months ago, I would consider myself a &quot;light&quot; user but I do enjoy the experience. My only sour point would be the not so smooth integration with claude code. But I&#x27;ve learmt to live with it for now

Feature-wise, Zed is still far from VS Code, but for me, the change has been worth it for the performance increase alone. I&#x27;m really happy with Zed, and I think it has a bright future ahead. Congratulations on the 1.0 release!

Why does signing up through Github require the &quot;act on behalf&quot; permission?That seems risky.

Still absolutely no support for screen readers?Despite promising it for years and every comparable product having it.

Congrats Zed! GPUI has been a huge inspiration.Whenever I think to myself “yikes that sounds too hard”, my next thought is “well, Zed team could probably do it”.

They&#x27;ve been in development longer than the product has been public.1-3 in stealth if I remember correctly

Zed is a durable piece of software, rather than the current trend of cheap disposable software. Regardless of whether humans or agents use a tool like this, durability is a benefit for both.Congrats to the team

It&#x27;s all in the details, eg. in sublime if you use the goto panel and highlight a file it will immediately show a preview, in zed you have to click on it, so you lose the snappy feeling.

Congrats to the Zed team! I&#x27;ve been using a combination of Zed + Gram [1] (which I predict may lag behind this 1.0 release in features&#x2F;fixes). They are both nice, fast editors. However, I switched to Sublime Text 4 again recently and... I&#x27;m surprised to see how much clunkier Zed feels than Sublime. I can&#x27;t put my finger on it, but Sublime, although lacking in features, feels considerably more polished and performant.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gram.liten.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gram.liten.app&#x2F;</a>

You should be able to just turn off the language server. Go to the lightning bolt icon in the bottom bar, &quot;Stop all servers&quot; or just the PHP one lighting up your source code.

I could! I&#x27;d probably have to take it piece by piece, rather than telling an AI to edit hundreds of files in one epic session and hoping for the best. Even just reviewing a commit that large feels like it would be a bad use of time. Also, giving every variable a type (or using &quot;mixed&quot; everywhere), and giving every function a return type (more &quot;mixed&quot; or &quot;void&quot;) would just make the code more verbose without any justification that I can see.With Zed, I feel like I&#x27;m being dragged into a modern style guide that I never agreed to. It would be nicer if I could make it my own by turning off those parts that I disagree with and keeping the rest. I know this is technically possible, but they&#x27;ve certainly not made it easy.

If you&#x27;re using zed, couldn&#x27;t you use AI to fix something like that? Those copy and paste type changes over a code base is something AI assistants are really good at.

Given the price and the fact it’s a WinRAR-style model, I really don’t mind ST being paid.

&gt; I love Sublime, but I don&#x27;t want to pay to upgrade from 3 to whatever version it is nowI don&#x27;t know what your financial situation is, but given that the upgrade is an $80 one off payment (a new license is $99), that it&#x27;s a per-user license (not per-machine), and that there were 8 years between Sublime Text 3 (2013) and Sublime Text 4 (2021) (only major versions require a new license), I personally think it&#x27;s very reasonably priced.

I finally moved off Sublime a few months ago because I wanted something open source and stumbled on KDE&#x2F;kate. It&#x27;s been a perfect substitute.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kde&#x2F;kate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kde&#x2F;kate</a>

The AI stuff was a lot more prominent in an earlier version, but they tweaked it a bit. It&#x27;s the same with Warp forcing a login at first.Jetbrains is a heavyweight IDE, but I&#x27;m not sure if the weight is worth the features it offers anymore, at least for the things I work on.VS Code is also an IDE, but it&#x27;s a bit easier on resources depending on what plugins you use and what you allow them to do. I&#x27;ve had combinations of plugins that caused my whole system to freeze up with too much memory usage because it spawned several Node processes each taking up multiple GBs of memory :&#x2F;.

I also loved &#x2F; want to love ST but it seems its ecosystem has collapsed, a lot of plugins haven&#x27;t had an update in over 5 years.

I tried Zed last month but found that it uses high CPU usage even when idle (up to 50% of 1 core of my i7-7500U).This is even higher CPU usage than my vscode causes.Sublime does not do that; in fact it has 0% CPU usage when idle:<pre><code> sudo strace -fyp &quot;$(pidof sublime_text)&quot;
</code></pre>
shows that Sublime issues no syscalls when idle, as it should be.(Note, you need to either unfocus it so that the caret stops flashing, or switch from fading caret to fixed &#x2F; non-fading caret, otherwise it necessarily has to do syscalls to draw itself.)Zed spams syscalls even when its screen is entirely still:<pre><code> strace -fyp &quot;$(pidof zed-editor)&quot;
</code></pre>
In fact Zed makes 800 syscalls per second when completely idle and unfocused.

How much did you pay for doordash last month?

With Zed touting itself as an AI first editor, is it possible to completely disable all AI features so that you never have to look at the equivalent of a copilot icon ever again? I don&#x27;t want to have to spend energy to actively ignore these things.

I&#x27;ve tried a lot of editors, including Zed, and always come back to Sublime Text.I use it every day. The #1 reason is because it never loses unsaved files (though I&#x27;m still working on breaking the habit of typing a few characters and pressing Ctrl-S). Column editing! Macros! Record&#x2F;Playback! Configuration! Plugins! Responsiveness! Low resource utilization! Etc!Why wouldn&#x27;t I pay for it? I&#x27;ve bought all four versions. The author deserves to be paid.I guess the question is: why don&#x27;t you want to pay for it? Assuming here that you&#x27;re a professional coder being paid a reasonable, US-equivalent salary. I understand not everyone fits that situation; plenty of us pirated software as starving college students &#x2F; interns, folks in other countries don&#x27;t get the same pay for the same work, etc.We should all want to pay the authors of great software. We&#x27;re on HN, which is a celebration of creating great code and awesome businesses.&quot;Pay him. Pay that man his money&quot;
- Teddy KGB

Eventually Zed devs will need to get money that isn&#x27;t coming out of VCs...

I love Sublime, but I don&#x27;t want to pay to upgrade from 3 to whatever version it is now, Zed is everything I wanted Sublime to be. Honestly, I wanted VS Code but fully native, and I feel like that&#x27;s what I&#x27;m getting from Zed.I feel like some people will be put off by all the &quot;AI&quot; mentioned by Zed, but you&#x27;re sleeping on a top tier editor where you can just ignore the AI stuff if you don&#x27;t want it. It&#x27;s very high quality, and probably the reason I wont be renewing next year for JetBrains, unless JetBrains does something impressive, I thought by now they&#x27;d have a more native feeling IDE that handles most &#x2F; any language instead of so many separate ones.VS Code has gotten so bloated over the years. The gold standard of ST has spoiled me with simpler editors. Zed is the first time I felt like someone finally built an editor that is modern and has a rich set of features.

As you mentioned iTerm, you should also check out TextMate, the thing that Sublime Text was inspired by.

I&#x27;m also sticking with Sublime for many years, and at this point it feels like it is some kind of old man stubbornness (like George R.R. Martin using WordStar 4.0 type thing). I don&#x27;t know why its ergonomics for me have been just unbeatable. I gave others (VSCode and Zed) good weeks and months of configuring them to my liking and using them exlusively, and always returned to Sublime. All the AI stuff just runs on the side in the terminal (iTerm2 for me, but checking in on Ghostty sometimes too, waiting on them to figure out their minimal text brightness feature).

Interesting! I tried Zed too, and not knowing Sublime, I switched to it instead after a while…I’m not sure why though. I do not have the issue you do, but Sublime feels better.

Coming from Sublime, I&#x27;d never even heard of a Language Server when I first tried Zed. As I recall, disabling particular kinds of warnings required copy-pasting some pretty exotic incantations into my project config. All of it was poorly documented, and it felt like I was doing something nobody expected me to do. Instead, I should have been able to mouse over a particular warning and say &quot;don&#x27;t warn me again about things like this&quot;, at which point Zed should edit the project config for me.

IIRC, Zed uses PHPactor by default. It&#x27;s a mess for Kirby projects as well.Edit for clarity: I want to fully switch to Zed, I really like it and their vision for the editor. PHP issues are a hurdle, not a turnoff to me.

&gt; My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it with Zed, and turning all those warnings off is not trivial.Isn&#x27;t it just the default configuration of whatever LSP zed defaults to for PHP?So you should be able to either configure the LSP to avoid that or disable the LSP server entirely.

&gt; I&#x27;m sure you can configure whatever language server PHP is using to disable specific warnings, etcYou may be able to do this by editing a language server-specific config file in whatever arcane syntax they decided to offer. But there isn&#x27;t any editor support for configuring languages servers, so it&#x27;s a bit of a lift for a newcomer who just wants to turn off some warnings

Editors should take full responsibility of the user experience. The user should not have to care about the existence of language servers.

I think the application should own its dependencies and its default config. In this case, it felt to me like no one had really looked at them.

This is just a language server problem. I&#x27;m sure you can configure whatever language server PHP is using to disable specific warnings, etc.

We use intelphense with vscode and it&#x27;s only mildly red (zf1 mutant project). It also understands stubs from phpstorm. Default lsp for Zed is phpactor and it was just an inferior experience compared to intelephense (free) in vs code last time I tried. Now there&#x27;s even a guide for adding intelephense to zed, but I&#x27;m yet to try it out.

&gt; Software update deletes this memory.While there was a bug where the session was lost when updating, this was fixed years ago.

I use Sublime as a scratchpad and never save anything, so this is an important feature for me. It&#x27;s worked flawlessly for years.I&#x27;ve tried Zed several times like this and it continues to lose data.

&gt; Software update deletes this memory.Are you sure? I believe Sublime preserves all your unsaved tabs even on update.

Sidenote: Sublime remembers all tabs even those unsaved. (Software update deletes this memory.)

It just doesn’t play bice with PHP, I always wanted to uniform my stack before with vscode, now with zed. But PHPStorm always win.It really there is no realy good ide or tools for php

Had the same experience with a rails project, it injected an LSP+linter we don&#x27;t use in our project and it has really annoying to figure out how to disable it in a settings. Having to debug an editor&#x27;s settings JSON the first time you use it is not a good UX, it should be optional to enable it instead of assuming we want aggressive on-save linting&#x2F;autoformatting (that the repo doesn&#x27;t even have configuration files).

A bit confused - Idea supports pythong and ts&#x2F;js, why the need for three?

Going forward there will be one version of Jetbrains IDE and clion, webstorm, etc will be all just plugins.

For your fist point, is the command `editor: toggle soft wrap` what you want?

I was using JetBrains for more than a decade. Then I got into Python as well and so was juggling between WebStorm, PyCharm, CLion and Intellij Idea. Zed has replaced the first three completely. Put the appropriate config file in project root for whichever LSP&#x2F;linter&#x2F;tool is running, and most of these warnings disappear.Writing C in Zed is a wonderful experience. The LSPs surface errors in an manner that is very easy to view and edit.My main issues with Zed are:- Word-wrap: I prefer on-demand, and I haven&#x27;t been able to figure out which setting triggers that. Of if it is even possible.- Support for Devanagari and other scripts: I use it as a markdown editor to proofread old texts and it is inadequate for that purpose. Kate&#x2F;Featherpad offers a superior experience for this, including the ability to zoom to see those visually difficult to parse conjunct consonants.

The standard approach these days is to have all of those declared in a config file somewhere in your project. That way, other contributors (and the CI) can lint&#x2F;format consistently.Even if it&#x27;s for solo projects, it&#x27;s nice that you don&#x27;t have to update them in lockstep. As in, you revisit an older repo, you don&#x27;t get bombarded with squiggly lines from your latest user profile, instead you can upgrade it at your leisure.

I love Zed, but I hear you. It&#x27;s a very fast and capable editor with lots of IDE features, but it&#x27;s lacking comfortable ways of tuning it for specific projects. (This is a problem with every general purpose, everything-to-everyone kind of IDE versus stack &quot;native&quot; IDEs that are geared toward the one true way of developing for particular target.) The configuration file structure is arcane, and it certainly not clear what the boundaries are between language feature configuration, LSPs, built-in and third-party code quality tools, etc.I eat the cost of configuring it manually when I start up something new because it&#x27;s just not that big of deal, even when you&#x27;re like me, working across myriad languages and frameworks and organization with varying standards. It&#x27;s not ideal, but it&#x27;s not deal-breaker.I do wish that there was a better way to definitively set it up a particular way and know that it is doing what you want it to do. I want something like presets&#x2F;profiles. If I&#x27;m working with typescript, I want to be able to set it up to use a specific version of tsc, eslint, prettier; I also want to be able to create a different one with biome; I want it to work correctly whether I have my source in the project root or in a sub directory or in a monorepo tree.Fairness to Zed: it is difficult to support all of these permutations, but I do think that they ought to be able to do something better to abstract these things and make the reusable.

Same, I really want to like Zed but LazyVim covers my every need

I still stick with Sublime because when I give them money they haven’t given me reason to believe they’re going to waste that money putting in AI slop features I don’t want.

I&#x27;ve worked with mostly PHP from this era, or at least developers that are from this era. The code still runs fine, and not having things like return types don&#x27;t make the code less able to run (just not as easy to catch bugs).I haven&#x27;t used Zed, but can you choose the PHP version, or point to a PHP executable for warnings&#x2F;errors? I know in VS Code, you point to the PHP executable for the version you are using, to catch errors. I haven&#x27;t created a new PHP project in quite some time, but I did work on many older PHP projects, and never had this issue with VS Code. I suspect even if you don&#x27;t go about it this way, there has to be configuration to specify what is and isn&#x27;t an error vs. warning.

&gt; Zed felt it had the right to download, install, and run node.js without any permission just to run some LSP (which I don&#x27;t even use).Yes. This is bad. Zed keeps installing and running all sorts of random background stuff. This should be an opt-in.

Zed felt it had the right to download, install, and run node.js without any permission just to run some LSP (which I don&#x27;t even use). When I mentioned it here, the devs said that they felt that was fine because their priority was to make things seamless for users such that they don&#x27;t have to install the LSP manually. Sublime Text, on the other hand, has never installed anything I haven&#x27;t explicitly asked it to.I&#x27;m sticking with Sublime Text, as its developers actually respect boundaries on my computer.

I really want to like Zed because they&#x27;ve clearly put so much work into it, but so far I&#x27;ve been sticking with Sublime. I have several large PHP projects that were started in the 2010-2020 era, and Zed will highlight and complain about all sorts of minor things that were standard PHP fare at the time: functions without return types, for example. My code (which works fine) looks like an ocean of red when I view it with Zed, and turning all those warnings off is not trivial.For each kind of warning, I wish there was a button that said &quot;don&#x27;t warn me again about issues like this one in this project.&quot; Then I could keep the interesting warnings (like undeclared variable) and ditch the ridiculous ones.

This is exactly how I feel.Cursor works just fine for me. I just don&#x27;t have the incentive to learn a new tool even though I think Zed is cool.

On MacOS I never really felt there was a noticeable performance difference to using Zed vs VSCode. I still like the idea of it being Rust&#x2F;GPU based but just like those GPU optimized terminals (Kitty, Alacritty, etc) the difference is usually pretty marginal for day to day stuff.The only time VSCode gets slow is if you use a bunch of poorly written plugins, which hasn&#x27;t been an issue for me in years. It&#x27;s just like Chrome, chrome is extremely fast as a base but you can mess it up by not being careful with what you add to it.I still plan to revisit Zed in another year or so once it progresses further, as I find it&#x27;s still behind Cursor in many ways.

I&#x27;ve personally found it uses significantly less memory on large projects than VSCode. VSCode has historically been nigh-unusable for me on Linux, it gets incredibly sluggish.

If editors own memory usage is your main concern then you should use emacs or even better mg or vi.The editor + its plugins + it&#x27;s LSP server is what counts. I dont care if zed is written in rust and uses 400MB when it spawns a multi GB nodejs process when I work on my tiny golang project.

So I&#x27;m not so sure how you arrived at your conclusion of Zed having higher memory use than VSCODE but in testing just now that&#x27;s not at all close to true.Zed for me on my Linux machine opened to a massive C++ project (the Ladybird browser if you were curious) is (not including LSP or extension processes) using around 480MB of memory.VSCode on the other hand with nothing open but a 20 line JSON file is (again not including any LSP or extension processes) using around 920MB of memory as reported by its own builtin task manager thing.I suppose 480MB for a text editor might be a tad high but calling it worse than VSCode is a massive stretch.

Hey, support engineer at Zed here.If you have a reproducible setup for a bug we don&#x27;t know about, we&#x27;d love to get a proper report of it.You can schedule 15mins with me here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendar.app.google&#x2F;fyLQkqvne7EdvR8XA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calendar.app.google&#x2F;fyLQkqvne7EdvR8XA</a>

Zed seems to have many fans on HN.But it is not for me. Multiple issues on Linux and high memory usage makes it a worse alternative to vscode and jetbrains.Maybe it&#x27;s better on OSX, but I dont use that anymore and why use an editor that treats your platform as a second class citizen?

Congratulations from me too — it quickly became my go-to editor (sorry, VSCode)

Zed is one of my fav. piece of software of the last years :)

&gt; Overall: It is taking a superficial view of the code base, and treating it more as text than a cohesive structure.That is the part that makes the space heater

It sounds like LSP isn’t working for you for some reason. Have you installed the extensions for those languages? These things are definitely supported via LSP

I did not. Ty. I will look into doing this.

Did you market the project as trusted? Récent update (à few month) requises the trust to reenable the analyses feature 
It took me a while to understand lol
At Somme point I though that the parker were broken in my codebase xD

TreeSitter is an amazing tool but is (purposefully) quite limited compared to an IDE--it doesn&#x27;t even cross file boundaries, so go to definition is a non-starter. Zed uses LSPs like Rust Analyzer to fill that role.

I thought Zed was using tree-sitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;syntax-aware-editing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;syntax-aware-editing</a>? Shouldn&#x27;t it address all of these issues? Does tree-sitter not understand Python (basically the most popular language out there) and Rust &quot;beyond superficial syntax&quot;? I thought its whole point was that it understands everything about a language&#x27;s syntax because it builds a concrete syntax tree?

Ctrl + alt + l in Zed is not causing any observable effect.

&gt; And I greatly respect the small binary&#x2F;download sizeThe latest x86_64 Linux build is 136MB. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;linux#downloading-manually" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;linux#downloading-manually</a>)As for your list of grievances, they all seem to boil down to the respective LSPs not doing their job? Does Ctrl-Alt-l (lowercase L, not Shift+i) include the language&#x27;s server in the context menu, and are there any errors reported for it if it does?

Nailed it! I will do some more experiments and report back.

I suspect you may be operating in &quot;Restricted mode,&quot; aka it doesn&#x27;t know if it can trust the directory. In that mode, the main tools like Rust analyzer are quite restricted. All of your complaints should be resolved once Rust Analyzer&#x2F;basedpyrite are up and running.I do think they should have a more obvious warning that the current directory is untrusted, right now the little green warning in the corner is way too unobtrusive and will result in many people having the same issue as you.

I am posting this because I want to like and use Zed because it&#x27;s so fast and responsive (Especially on my tablet, which JB turns into a space heater), and has neat functionality like being able to switch to whatever set of hotkeys you use. And I greatly respect the small binary&#x2F;download size and fast install. From experimenting in Python and rust:<pre><code> - Doesn&#x27;t highlight typos in variable, functions, class&#x2F;struct names etc. Doesn&#x27;t highlight rust borrow-check, invalid method etc errors.
 - Doesn&#x27;t seem to understand either language beyond superficial syntax
 - &quot;Go to definition&quot; (Ctrl + B) Doesn&#x27;t do anything
 - Doesn&#x27;t show which versions are valid in Cargo.toml and pyproject.toml
 - No ability to move functions&#x2F;classes&#x2F;structs etc to different modules
 - Doesn&#x27;t seem to understand rust feature gates
 - Doesn&#x27;t seem to understand what fields a struct has, or params a function has, let a lone what types are valid in them.
 - Rename seems naive

</code></pre>
Overall: It is taking a superficial view of the code base, and treating it more as text than a cohesive structure.edit: Thank you very much for those who have pointed out I needed to disable restricted mode. This has added some introspection and in-line error handling. Some of my concerns are partially-mitigated. It seems when introspection and in-line editing&#x2F;complete&#x2F;data appears is inconsistent (But working in many cases), and I do not yet know what rules define this. Refactoring tools like moving are still absent. I will continue to use Zed on my tablet with the LSPs enabled, and observe.

Do you happen to use the AutoImport extension? rg subprocess explosion seems related.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soates&#x2F;Auto-Import&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;soates&#x2F;Auto-Import&#x2F;issues&#x2F;127</a>

I&#x27;ve been using the SSH remote editing on Zed too and it works great. No issues whatsoever.

The VSCode remote ssh implementation is a bit concerning:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;vscode-ssh-wtf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fly.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;vscode-ssh-wtf&#x2F;</a>Any idea if zed does things differently?

The only reason I remained on vscode for so long was the remote ssh editing as I also use a dev box (M2 air + dev box = multi-day battery life) but recently got sick and tired of the vscode instability and frequent need to blow away state &#x2F; reinstall plugins after updates. When I saw Zed had an ssh dev equivalent I jumped ship and haven&#x27;t looked back. Here is my theme if anyone is interested, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whalesalad&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;zed&#x2F;whalesalad.json" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;whalesalad&#x2F;dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;zed&#x2F;whale...</a>

Actually, inspired by this, I went ahead and installed Zed to try it out. After a couple of hours of working remotely using Zed, I&#x27;m impressed. It actually works, and the experience feels great. Only little issue was that when I first opened the remote folder, I was greeted with a blank window. I thought it was stuck loading and was about to give up, but turns out I had to open the project panel myself to see the files. Otherwise, working fine so far! Memory-wise it&#x27;s practically free.EDIT: Scrap that. After a while it starts running at 100% CPU on my macbook. I&#x27;m editing a small, simple PHP remotely over SSH. I haven&#x27;t yet tested if it only happens with remote editing. Too bad... Well, at least it didn&#x27;t trash the server like VSCode.EDIT: Logs showed it was trying to do some auto suggestions every few seconds, but failed due to missing credentials. Didn&#x27;t seem like something that would eat up 100%, but after disabling all AI features (I&#x27;m glad there was an option for this), the problem disappeared, and I&#x27;m happy with Zed again.

I&#x27;m glad to hear the SSH remote editing is working well.A lot of the time I&#x27;m developing on a remote server using VSCode Remote-SSH. I mostly love it. But! It consumes a lot of memory. And not only that. At times it gets stuck in some infinite loop or such, and ends up consuming all memory on the machine, preventing all traffic. Takes a few minutes for the OS to finally kill it, so I can get back in. I&#x27;m pretty this is happening due to large collections of symlinks (the subprocess eating up the memory is rg). But also just JavaScript editing at times launches up a bunch of ts-servers consuming everything and more.This is super scary, if I&#x27;m poking around on the prod server.Looking for alternatives. Zed is on my list.

Emacs has had this feature forever, and it works pretty well.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;Remote-Files.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;software&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;manual&#x2F;html_node&#x2F;emacs&#x2F;Re...</a>

Using Zed with ssh is an interesting idea. I spend a lot of time mosh&#x2F;ssh to VPSs, then running &#x27;emacs -nw&#x27; locally on the server. This is a great setup since I love Emacs, but I will give Zed&#x2F;ssh a try. Thanks.

Thank you for this comment! exe.dev is what I&#x27;ve been seeking without quite knowing it. excited to dig into it.

I&#x27;ll have to check it out again. Last time I tried, the got integration didn&#x27;t work when connecting to a remote SSH server, and ports couldn&#x27;t be mapped at runtime.Had to shut everything down, list the port, and then reconnect. A big pain when other tools just automatically figure out what needs to be forwarded, or just let you specify arbitrary ports at runtime.

Yes I’m trusting exe.dev disks and persistence.For many apps the weird experimental version is all there is. Call it vibe coding or experiments or non-critical tools. These may not even have a GitHub repo. I trust local git and the exe.dev disks.Then for serious apps the above is the same shape for development branches. Spin up a VM in a few seconds with the code checked out and running online and editable over an SSH mount is the magic.Then that turns into a PR on GitHub and a normal review then CI&#x2F;CD to staging and prod takes over.

&quot;online live reloading apps&quot; =&gt; trying to get my head around this workflow. so the disk is shared across these? so do you still have the problem of say running a &quot;main&quot; version of an app, and it&#x27;s weird experimental version of that same app? because they still have to live in different folders&#x2F;worktrees? that&#x27;s where I get stuck a little trying to enable things like this for others. right now, I&#x27;ve got people a system we can spin up N &quot;vms&quot;. but it&#x27;s not persistent storage if the vm goes away. it&#x27;s whatever version exists in their GitHub branch. hopefully if they hack the vm app they commit and push back to the repo.

&gt; Yes it takes a bit of work but it isn’t that bad.Agreed, it takes a few hours to set up everything. But just did it with Claude the other day, and I was up and running in no time! :-)

I have a Hetzner box with Caddy too.The difference with exe.dev is multiple VMs. I have over 20 now with isolated apps, branches of the same app, etc.

Personally the main advantage is to simply spin up new ones with the same setup. You can also do that by yourself but imo it includes way more managing and time compared to exe

How does exe.dev differ from VPS + Caddy + some subdomain on a domain you already own?For auth one can use Caddy and basic auth. Yes it takes a bit of work but it isn’t that bad. Plus zero subscription costs if your VPS is a Raspberry

ECS really isn&#x27;t scalable. imo a multi-account EKS cluster is a bare minimum. It&#x27;s what I use for my todo list app, and it works great!

What you really want is to build a Docker container and wait for ECS deployments between iterations.

I wish it had a built-in SQL browser, in PyCharm and PHPStorm I find that very convenient. I find standalone ones disappointing.

Congrats!My daily driver is Zed developing on SSH remote servers on exe.dev.It&#x27;s crazy to think of all the dev tools I&#x27;ve churned through over the last 18 months but these two feel sticky.Zed has everything I need in a unified pane. File editor, terminal, agents, SSH remotes. And it&#x27;s fast and intuitiveexe.dev is the first &quot;dev container&quot; I&#x27;ve ever *loved*. The remote sandbox means `dangerously-skip-permissions` is safe. Being on the internet with good private &#x2F; shared &#x2F; public access saves so much time.I also use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conductor.build&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;conductor.build&#x2F;</a> and GitHub but this is starting to feel clunky compared hacking directly against online live reloading apps.

Congrats on 1.0!Though it&#x27;s a pretty big bummer to see that extension improvements were removed from the roadmap.

Zed has a &quot;turn off all AI features&quot; checkbox if you want to use that

&gt; recreates makefiles from scratch&gt; &quot;These guys don&#x27;t understand why simplicity is a benefit&quot;I&#x27;m not really criticizing, clearly your system works for you. Ironically, as I&#x27;ve been using AI more, I&#x27;ve been rolling more systems that work for me instead of relying on existing ones. It&#x27;s very freeing.

&gt; Zed is also an AI-native editor.My editor is dumb. No AI anywhere.The only unusual thing is that I use ruby as primary glue language to everything, so in a way that editor (no longer maintained, similar to Linus&#x27; editor) is just a wrapper over ruby as such, and functionality in these scripts.I have also found that it is not the editor that slows me down, but the need to have to think. This is also one reason why I try to make the specification as useful as possible. For instance, in one project that I use to compile everything from source, I use a ton of simple, mostly smallish .yml files that describe everything - allowed keys, allowed values, settings that are mostly just a pointer to where to fetch the source, how, how to compile it then and so forth. The ruby code then is mostly just a glue over that data. And that approach, while very simple, works quite well. Users can also modify settings, by modifying the .yml file or via commandline flags. And if need be, I could also use and populate a SQL database with that data (but for the most part, yaml actually suffices; I don&#x27;t understand why people are so upset about yaml, and then only point at use cases where folks use mega-nested yaml files. These guys don&#x27;t understand why simplicity is a benefit; admittedly yaml is not a perfect format either, I notice this when I have a long .yml file and then some forgotten &quot;:&quot; or &quot;,&quot; due to manual copy&#x2F;paste error, then it takes me a few seconds to notice what&#x27;s wrong).

Congrats to the Zed team! Great to see people continuing to work on important tooling like editors these days.

They added &quot;gw&quot; (amp jump) in 1.1.2 preview! It&#x27;s just amazing. It was the last thing I needed before totally switching over lol

daily driver has been zed ever since they introduced helix more. still super excited to see how far it can go. congrats to them

it&#x27;s also gpl v3 licensed, you can just take a copy, won&#x27;t cost you shit

Sorry, I am not going to use and get attached to a code editor that is VC funded. You know the enshittification will happen sooner or later.

I use zed as a quick editor for stuff using usaved files.I don&#x27;t like how it loses the session when I reopen it randomly (and not randomly every upgrade).

Thank you, Zed team, for creating Zed. It’s clearly a labor of love, and I really want Zed to work for me. It seems like a quality project, it’s fast, and the base editor is easy to use.I gave it weeks though, and the surrounding UI just never clicked for me. The various AI panels are confusing, the global search is awkward, and something about the type rendering just didn’t ever look right (maybe I’m hallucinating this?). I use VS Code only grudgingly, but I do think its ergonomics are actually pretty reasonable. I came from Sublime before that. I’ll keep trying Zed, and I hope you succeed.

Zed and VSCode can handle about the same file sizes afaik, with Zed just slightly better. Sublime Text etal still beats both.

it&#x27;s now my go-to for when I need to wrangle basically any text file manually - has handled everything I can throw at it (some of which has crashed other editors -looking at you Cursor&#x2F;VSCode)

I only open VSCode when I need to resolve a conflicted merge. The Zed interface is basically diff2, and doesn&#x27;t show character-level differences.Apparently Zed was working on a better diff viewer, but that seems to have been shelved.

Zed really is delightful to use. I haven&#x27;t had any need to open VSCode in over a year. Extending it has been relatively simple, even as someone who doesn&#x27;t know Rust well.The Zed team seem to have really learned their lesson on performance from the Atom days, because it&#x27;s very performant. @nathansobo, @maxbrunsfeld, @as-cii and the team, congrats!

Sadly this is how I use Sublime as well, though not anymore, on work systems the new Notepad app has tabs finally, and can do exactly that...

yep that lycra wearing bike rider from North Sydney doesn&#x27;t need more of your money

Ever thought about Heynote? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heynote.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;heynote.com&#x2F;</a> I love it.

Never thought of Zed as Sublime replacement, but now that you&#x27;ve mentioned – why not? I use Sublime only as blazingly fast temp note taking that doesn&#x27;t lose them on exit, but I see Zed fits the job perfectly. One less close product hopefully!

I was downloading it &quot;just to see,&quot; but your comment is roughly a carbon copy of my own IDE&#x2F;editor usage history, so 1) ooo spooky deja vu and 2) here&#x27;s hoping I feel the same way you do.

I used Sublime Text since ST2, and bought into ST3. It just felt stale compared to Visual Studio or any JetBrains IDE. I loved the speed, but at least back when I was using it, LSP wasn&#x27;t as big and so I didn&#x27;t have that at my fingertips.With Zed all the high quality features are OOTB. For example, with Python they run some high quality linters out of the box, I don&#x27;t even have to think about setting anything up, I don&#x27;t even thing I have installed a single plugin for Zed outside of themes. It&#x27;s a very batteries included text editor.

Not the OP, but for me ST can&#x27;t be beat in terms of how easy it is to write a plugin. It uses Python (Zed is Rust). Plugins generally auto-reloads. If extensibility is important to you, ST is still the way to go.

sublime text is a joke with regards to LSPIt doesn&#x27;t even respect local project dependenciesPlus the whole &quot;holy than thou&quot; attitude of python devs in general just sucks tbhPython isn&#x27;t as great as you think it is.

Can you speak to your feelings on Zed&#x27;s customizability&#x2F;extensibility? Zed is shiny and impressive, but Sublime&#x27;s rich ecosystem of python plugins is hard to beat...EDIT: Tho if sublime wasn&#x27;t already &quot;doing everything [you] need&quot;, maybe you aren&#x27;t familiar with the plugin ecosystem!

If you break your Neovim config, you can always just run `nvim --clean`

I&#x27;ve always thought of Zed as a good Sublime Text alternative. I can tinker with and potentially break my Neovim config, but I&#x27;ll have Zed as a backup for when I need to do a quick edit. Their Vim mode is the best I&#x27;ve used outside of JetBrains (or Vim itself).

Congrats to the Zed team for building the best modern editor I have ever used. I subscribe to the monthly plan just to give you guys the funding you need, even if my funding is a tiny drop in the bucket. I always wanted a feature rich alternative to Sublime Text that can run anywhere and do basically anything I need from it. I&#x27;ve use JetBrains IDEs for years (been subscribed annually since 2017), but since Zed I havent really opened any of those IDEs in a long time, other than maybe Rider but that&#x27;s due to C# nuances I needed to work with.

I haven&#x27;t used it, but it caught my attention when I read the Text Rendering section of this post:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;videogame#text-rendering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;videogame#text-rendering</a>It looks like their approach could nicely solve a problem that&#x27;s shared by almost every new GUI toolkit I&#x27;ve tried: text looks terrible, or at least out of place when surrounded by applications built with the desktop&#x27;s native toolkit.

Clean and polished design, concise Tailwind-style API, and last but not least sustained 120 FPS across complex UI.

There&#x27;s never going to be one GUI library to rule them all, but I find iced the best Rust library at the moment and likely for the foreseeable future.

I took a look at gpui-component a while ago when assessing GPUI for a project I was working on. IANAL but was dissuaded because it&#x27;s almost certainly not compliant with the Zed license--gpui-component &quot;borrows&quot; gpui code patterns lifted straight from the main zed repo, which therefore must be AGPL&#x2F;GPL (unlike the gpui-only which is Apache IIRC). Caveat emptor (caveat user?).

&gt; I wish GPUI could become the go-to Rust UI library and not just an editor backend.In case you find it useful, I recently stumbled upon this project:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;longbridge&#x2F;gpui-component" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;longbridge&#x2F;gpui-component</a>&quot;UI components for building fantastic desktop applications using GPUI.&quot;

I&#x27;m beating a dead horse here but the challenge is a11y. Chromium wrappers get a11y for free; bespoke UI frameworks must implement accesskit (or something) which is a lot of work and something that (imo sadly) many small teams decide is not worth the investment.

They seem to have stopped developing GPUI (or maybe just the public version)?One of the staff forked it into a community edition <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gpui-ce&#x2F;gpui-ce" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gpui-ce&#x2F;gpui-ce</a>Does anyone have more details about the state of it?

I&#x27;ve been using the editor since the early days and have always been a fan of its visual look and feel, so I was pretty happy to see its UI library open sourced.I wish GPUI could become the go-to Rust UI library and not just an editor backend.For that, a couple of changes would be highly desirable: being able to switch the GPU backend from Metal to wgpu (so it could be mixed with vello, for instance), and the ability to integrate into an existing event loop like egui allows you to. If this were easy to do, I would switch from egui in a heartbeat.

I&#x27;m loving it.Just opened my current TS&#x2F;TSX project and everything is working as expected.Performance is fantastic. I used Sublime for a decade and always missed its native performance after switching to VSCode due to needing first class Svelte, Vue, or Astro support.The only thing that bothered me is that it enabled the Tailwind LSP even though I&#x27;m not using TW and I couldn&#x27;t stop it. Had to disable that LSP completely in the settings:<pre><code> &quot;language_servers&quot;: [
 &quot;...&quot;,
 &quot;!tailwindcss-language-server&quot;
 ]</code></pre>

I&#x27;m trying it out, looks pretty decent.For better or worse, my current workflow is to do most things through WSL on Windows 11. VSCode supports running the editor natively on Windows, but then having an agent or something inside WSL that lets me remote control what&#x27;s going on there. Does Zed do anything similar?Currently I&#x27;m just access the workspace in Zed via Windows Explorer, but I wonder if that&#x27;s going to kneecap some of the integrations.EDIT: nm, Zed supports exactly the same kind of remote editor session, via hamburger -&gt; File -&gt; Open Remote

It does, you can make custom themes or use ones made by the community. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;extensions?filter=themes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zed.dev&#x2F;extensions?filter=themes</a>

Does it really not let you change the colors?  Am very unhappy at the modern trend to allow only canned themes.

I really like the default Cursor theme - One Dark is also OK.

What&#x27;s your favorite theme, maybe we can point you to something close? If you have any special needs or usability issues (colorblindness is common), that&#x27;s probably relevant too.I use the default theme + the Catppuccin Icon Theme : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;catppuccin&#x2F;zed-icons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;catppuccin&#x2F;zed-icons</a>

I use &quot;Melange Light&quot;. Feels simple and clean, if you like light themes at all.

You could just use the VSCode theme in Zed.

I hate to dismiss Zed for such a stupid reason, but I have tried to use Zed seriously many times and every time I stop because I can&#x27;t get over the theme. I&#x27;ve tried basically every single theme I can find that is reasonably popular and they are all equally poor. VSCode and Cursor have vastly better default themes.Does anyone have any suggestions here? I would love to use Zed more.

Zed 1.0