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#zed

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So, a few days of trying out #Zed instead of #VisualStudioCode:

  • God it's fast, but I guess that's to be expected when you have a native rust build.
  • Not as many extensions, but many things I used to need an extension for are just... built in.
  • AI stuff fully disappears when turned off.
  • Rust support is very good.
  • Haven't written go with it yet, so cant' say how it works there.
  • Inline error display is nice.
  • Can't use it to debug my code (yet) which is a feature I loved in VSCode.

So far... quite a nice experience, and when they add debugging support, it'll be fully an upgrade for me.

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#zed has been my daily driver for a week now, and apart from advanced features and a "navigate to test" I can cope without, there is no real reason for me to look back.

Emacs will remain my git frontend of choice. There is Lazygit, or Gitui, but Magit remains unbeatable, and 3-way merge is a breeze.

I really wish I could switch to #Zed and start recommending it to my students…but whenever I try it after a new version is released, I am disappointed. 😕

It’s come a really long way, but there just are way too many paper cuts for it to be used productively… Things like indentation settings being unintuitive or just ignored, tags not auto closing, Emmet sometimes just not working…

As I got sick of #VisualStudioCode, I am now trying out #Zed, and after an hour of use, I don't have a strong opinion yet, except:

  • God is it responsive, it's nice to have an editor that's written in a compiled language instead of a browser pretending to be an editor.
  • It had a flag to turn off all the AI nonsense, the "sparkle" icon is gone now, and I'm happier for it.

Sigh, I think I might have to switch away from #VisusalStudioCode. Seems the only stuff they work on is #AI, to the detriment of everything else.

Shall I move back to #vim? Or rather #neovim. Do I still have the patience to configure that just the way I like it?
I could also try out that newfangled #zed editor that is getting all the hype these days.

One must-have feature is it having good vim keybindings though, I'm lost without them.

#SoftwareDevelopment #golang #rustlang #rust

For the first time since I stumbled upon the #zed ide, I started using it for real work, and not just fiddling around with a side project.

I like the idea of the 'subtle' mode for AI predictions, but I wish I could switch AI off completely on the fly, an 'off' mode, if you like.

Any idea how to achieve this?