One thing that I didn't enjoy when taking Zed for a spin was the default of prettifying my code on-save. I feel like that's something that shouldn't be enabled by default. People are most likely going to try and jump in editing an existing project, and don't want the entire file getting reformatted.
I wonder though if it's enticing enough to leave Emacs' versatile configurability and introspection abilities behind. I don't think Zed has any way to extend its behavior beyond configuration options, and if it doesn't have a scripting language to go with it now, then it seems quite unlikely it will have a good one in the future either.
I'm rooting for Zed. Used it for a few months at the start of this year, but came back to VSCode. I think Zed can potentially be a replacement for Sublime Text or equivalent, but it's far from one for VSCode. There's too much missing currently and too many bugs (at least from when I last used back in March).
Use it for 50% of my dev work now. It has improved significantly in the last six months. The vim support is quite decent already.
Search hasn't been an issue for me yet. It feels instant and I like that I can use my keyboard for browsing search results in one view, just like in Sublime. Might depend on the project size, although I use it on bigger projects, too.
The one thing I'm missing is Git support. After getting used to Gitlens, it's really hard to move back to the command line.
I no longer code, except for the occasional fun and the usual front-end for marketing and documentation pages. This is why I wanted an editor that I could load up my entire drive or each of the entities, and that wouldn’t hang up on me. I’m beginning to learn VIM and will likely retire with it but for now I was looking for something I'm familiar with.
Zed came really close to being an open-source editor I can use for now, and the Sublime Text key binding was an icing on the cake. Unfortunately, with its regular nudges to do this, do that, install this, install that -- I gave up on it and went back to Sublime Text. ST is just there, super-fast, loads anything I throw in, and just silent - no nothing.
Has anyone been able to run it? I'm getting reports of things not being implemented for Linux:
[2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/main.rs:192: could not find git binary path
Caused by:
Platform<LinuxPlatform>::path_for_auxiliary_executable is not implemented yet
[2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/settings/src/settings_file.rs:76: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0
[2024-05-06T14:00:34+02:00 ERROR util] crates/zed/src/zed.rs:661: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0
Hmm, the process segfaults right after, so I assumed this was the cause.
Looking at the output again, I think there's another unrelated issue that happens at the same time, where Vulkan is unable to start due to ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER.
EDIT: Yes, I was missing a driver. I had a driver installed (amdvlk), but that apparently didn't work, and vulkan-radeon does.
I've seem zed a few times now, but I've always dismissed it as it was mac only. I'm now looking at features and it seems like a good base for "the last code editor I'll use" :D
I’m using Zed on macOS and like it so far. Only thing I wish they add is remote development like VSCode has. Zed seems to be focusing on collaborative development and the integrated AI assistant, but feels like remote programming is something closer to a lot more people’s use cases. I’d be willing to pay for a seamless remote experience with Zed.
those give you access to modify remote files - vscode gives you remote search, debugging, building, testing, port forwarding, reproducable self-contained disposable environments, ...
Having used both sshfs and vscode-remote for many years, I can assure you that vscode has a lot more features, with better integration; and even the features that sshfs does have, vscode-remote does the same thing better :)
(You can kiiiind of get the same features with sshfs + mosh + ssh + docker + a bunch of custom scripts + a suite of not-integrated command line tools... but that’s very much a “Why would anybody want to use dropbox when we already have rsync?” situation)
Starts super quickly and offered downloading omnisharp along with needed language server when I opened a c# source file. The only thing holding me back from exploring it more is that it has no window decorations so I can't easily manipulate the window (under Gnome with Wayland)
I like Zed a lot but decided not to keep it because it has a direct connection with an AI assistant via a separate AI chat window/console. I prefer my software not to have any AI in it -- at least make it something that can be removed from the interface like in VS Code (Copilot there is optional).
Oh, thanks, I'll look into that. I didn't know that was possible (I searched around a little but couldn't find it.) Does this disable connecting to an AI server though or just hide the buttons?
