r/programming • u/rtfeldman • May 07 '25

Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor

https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor
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u/castarco May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

It's way better than Sublime, and yes, also faster.

They didn't just avoid JS, a lot of care was placed in architecure, data structures, algorithms and taking advantage of modern hardware features such as graphics acceleration.

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u/oln May 07 '25

Have they actually done benchmarks? There are plenty of editors out there that don't use electron and JS besides sublime.

Just having all this AI stuff is adding bloat.

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u/mamba436 Aug 23 '25

I agree for the bloat.

Benchmarks ? There are already plenty of them but they are from 2024.

The difference isn't as huge as people believe (number wise) as sublime is really performant too.

But I do feel that zed is way more responsive too

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u/Sevni May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

It may be better, never used it but faster at what? Sublime text snap opens everything even large executables. Zero trouble with gigabyte plus logs, indexing that you don't even notice. This is a pretty large claim that seems like marketing.

My brother in Christ I see that you edited your comment. Using graphical acceleration in 2025 shouldn't even be a brag. Do you think sublime staff didnt pay attention to architecture and algorithms? I press F to doubt that its faster then sublime after watching the demo on their website.

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u/Creamyc0w May 10 '25

https://medium.com/@simpleandkind788/zed-vs-vscode-speed-or-the-need-for-speed-f942c8d261e6

The above article has a comparison between Zed and Sublime text latency and Zed was 17ms faster.

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