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ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE. I wish there were something like VSCode that is very modular but written in native. But VSCode is good enough and it is my daily driver.


For those on Windows, which is the topic at hand, UltraEdit and Notepad++.

I disagree Zed is an IDE, it is quite far from InteliJ, Borland/Embarcadero, VS, XCode, Eclipse, Netbeans...

If it is about adding enough plugins until it eventually becomes one, then any programmer's editor is an IDE.


My line is - if I can compile, run and debug my program through the editor UI instead of a terminal, it's an IDE.


Sublime Text can run code from its UI too. IDE is much more full-featured, like VS vs VSCode or IntelliJ vs Fleet.


As I said, then any programmer editor is an IDE, including UltraEdit and Notepad++.


Notepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?


It has plugins....and about 30 years of ecosystem history.

Try to use Zed to debug Go code.


I'm literally doing that right now. I can set breakpoints and graphically step through them in Go files.


Yeah, thanks to

https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol


There are always: Vim and Emacs.


> ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE.

Zed is the new emacs?


No. In Emacs you can write a simple one line script and change anything.

In Zed, you need to write a full blown plugin, and can change only what the Zed authors exposed through their plugin API.




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