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How does Zed fare for C++ development? Last I checked it did not support CMake as a build system.



You can set up tasks to run cmake for you: https://zed.dev/docs/tasks

Personally, I just use the terminal for my build tools and Zed talks to clangd just fine for autocomplete etc.


It's a text editor not an IDE.


I don't think that argument holds very well.

It supports extensions for languages such as Java and seemingly that extension can build code, too.

Zed also contains Git-support out of the box, which sounds pretty much like a lightweight IDE.




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