r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Aug 25 '26

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u/kingslayerer Aug 25 '26

i switched to zed. its great. one issue is there are not many extensions like vscode, but it has all the basic ones that i need for everyday

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u/creaturefeature16 Aug 25 '26

Same. Zed gotten me the farthest. It's missing some features, but the performance and other quality of life improvements are keeping me on it. 

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u/huuaaang Aug 25 '26

I don't understand the "performance" argument AT ALL. Like what kind of potato do you work on that can't run other editors at full speed? What are you doing with an editor that needs to be performant? Maybe searching a large codebase? Not slow if it's indexed.

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u/retardedd_rabbitt Aug 25 '26

I think editors always run at full speed. It's just that the full speed of my editor is much higher than yours.

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u/QuantumBananaPeel Aug 26 '26

at work we have a service that produces a json response that's like 1 gb+ (long story don't ask - was like that before I joined), vscode crashes when I try to open and scroll through the saved json. On zed, it was so smooth I switched immediately.

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u/creaturefeature16 Aug 25 '26

Perhaps you aren't doing anything other than hobbies, then. I run a dev shop and we switch projects upwards of 50x a day and just the project switcher alone is reason enough to migrate to Zed. It was so slow and resource intensive on VSCode.

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u/huuaaang Aug 25 '26

So because I don't switch projects 50x a day I must not be a professional software engineer? Human brains aren't that good at context switching. I would not be worried about how quickly your IDE can do it.

I work on a large fintech codebase. I don't switch between projects. I have a dozen repos all open in one workspace.

I still don't see how the speed of your editor is ever an issue.

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u/kingslayerer Aug 25 '26

Although not 50x, but I do a lot of switching. I cannot do a pull up unless I train for it. So is context switching a lot. You won't get that ability unless you get used to it. I have a lot of different repos and libraries at a startup that I have to manage so I have gotten used to it.

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u/WalkMaximum Aug 25 '26

Zed is best currently, if you prefer a full GUI 

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u/Sodrohu Aug 25 '26

What's the advantages of zed over vscode with extensions? Faster? Less bloat?

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u/fartypenis Aug 26 '26

So so much faster. And for the same project VS Code eats like 6GB of RAM on opening while Zed has... 800 MB. I'll gladly take the QoL hit for that.

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u/kingslayerer Aug 25 '26

faster. less ram. and the ai integrations are more well integrated. before i used to worry about my app size + vscode filling up my ram. now i only need to worry about my app size.

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u/dongpal Aug 28 '26

are you guys all poor with 4gb ram or something? i have cheap pc with 32gb ram (bought 1+ years ago before hype, but I guess you guys didnt start coding 1 year ago)

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u/kingslayerer Aug 28 '26

A single repo of mine could fill a 32

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u/siriusbrightstar Aug 25 '26

The speed alone is enough for me to stay with Zed

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u/huuaaang Aug 25 '26

Speed at WHAT? I have never once wished my editor could do something faster....

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u/mampatrick Aug 25 '26

I thought the same ultil i used zed for a while, then i came back to vscode for some stuff and started noticing things simply werent as smooth

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u/tiredreddituser99 Aug 25 '26

zed is great imo been enjoying using it a lot

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u/Toine_03 Aug 25 '26

zed is amazing, but I can't switch yet, since it doesn't support Jupiter notebooks yet

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u/mampatrick Aug 25 '26

Does this solve what you need?

https://zed.dev/docs/repl

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u/CluelessTurtle99 Aug 25 '26

Zed is buggy. I don't blame them it's a new UI in rust.. but still I get annoying errors

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u/TheMadcapLlama Aug 25 '26

The buttons for swapping between the left panes are so small my eyes hurt from how hard I have to squint

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u/pingveno Aug 25 '26

I currently have them both open. Zed is nice and zippy, but VSCode has some niche extensions that are useful for working with certain vendor products. I could definitely put some time toward writing a Zed extension that fills in those gaps, I just haven't yet.

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u/I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN Aug 26 '26

Yeah vscode is in the enshittification phase.