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by giancarlostoro22 hours ago |
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upvoteby joefitzgerald20 hours ago|
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Zed really is delightful to use. I haven't had any need to open VSCode in over a year. Extending it has been relatively simple, even as someone who doesn't know Rust well.

The Zed team seem to have really learned their lesson on performance from the Atom days, because it's very performant. @nathansobo, @maxbrunsfeld, @as-cii and the team, congrats!

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upvoteby foxylad11 hours ago|
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I only open VSCode when I need to resolve a conflicted merge. The Zed interface is basically diff2, and doesn't show character-level differences.

Apparently Zed was working on a better diff viewer, but that seems to have been shelved.

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upvoteby chrysoprace16 hours ago|
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I've always thought of Zed as a good Sublime Text alternative. I can tinker with and potentially break my Neovim config, but I'll have Zed as a backup for when I need to do a quick edit. Their Vim mode is the best I've used outside of JetBrains (or Vim itself).
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upvoteby TonyStr5 hours ago|
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If you break your Neovim config, you can always just run `nvim --clean`
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upvoteby chrysoprace5 hours ago|
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Sure but that turns my IDE into a text editor, where as Zed is a great backup IDE.
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upvoteby k_bx19 hours ago|
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Never thought of Zed as Sublime replacement, but now that you've mentioned – why not? I use Sublime only as blazingly fast temp note taking that doesn't lose them on exit, but I see Zed fits the job perfectly. One less close product hopefully!
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upvoteby giancarlostoro14 hours ago|
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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...
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upvoteby grimgrin11 minutes ago|
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many became used to this behavior with notepad++ and though it's not cross-platform, if you never entirely left windows, you're possibly still using it. especially if it's to paste giant json blobs, as npp has a plugin system, with json formatting and the like ~

anyways, sometimes i think about npp when subline is mentioned

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upvoteby NamlchakKhandro10 hours ago|
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yep that lycra wearing bike rider from North Sydney doesn't need more of your money
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upvoteby k_bx8 hours ago|
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I was about to pay him, just maybe not this time, since sublime 2...
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upvoteby sudb20 hours ago|
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it'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/VSCode)
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upvoteby asyncze7 hours ago|
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Zed and VSCode can handle about the same file sizes afaik, with Zed just slightly better. Sublime Text etal still beats both.
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upvoteby for1nner18 hours ago|
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I was downloading it "just to see," but your comment is roughly a carbon copy of my own IDE/editor usage history, so 1) ooo spooky deja vu and 2) here's hoping I feel the same way you do.
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upvoteby bbor18 hours ago|
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Can you speak to your feelings on Zed's customizability/extensibility? Zed is shiny and impressive, but Sublime's rich ecosystem of python plugins is hard to beat...

EDIT: Tho if sublime wasn't already "doing everything [you] need", maybe you aren't familiar with the plugin ecosystem!

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upvoteby giancarlostoro17 hours ago|
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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't as big and so I didn'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't even have to think about setting anything up, I don't even thing I have installed a single plugin for Zed outside of themes. It's a very batteries included text editor.

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upvoteby nsm12 hours ago|
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Not the OP, but for me ST can'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.
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upvoteby NamlchakKhandro10 hours ago|
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sublime text is a joke with regards to LSP

It doesn't even respect local project dependencies

Plus the whole "holy than thou" attitude of python devs in general just sucks tbh

Python isn't as great as you think it is.

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