I am using nightly on Windows and startup time is very slow. It can take 10 seconds to boot up. To quickly edit random files, I would open notepad++ or simple notepad instead, which isn't what I expected from Zed.

Just wanted to mention that some basic Windows-OS keyboard shortcuts don't work, like ALT+F to open the File menu. Also things like ALT+SPACEBAR to bring up the system context menu for the focussed window (the menu with maximise, minimise, close options etc.) do not seem to work. I'm guessing with the DirectX rendering backend, the 'app' is rendered more akin to a video game than a native win32 process.

Also after install, the install directory takes up 400MB+. Even VSCode only takes up around 380MB. I believe it when they say it's not an Electron app, but I do wonder what's being packed in there. I was always under the impresion that Rust apps are pretty lightweight, but that install size is nearing Java levels of binary/dependency bloat.

Have they implemented subpixel font rendering by now? I remember that being a sticking point when it came to Linux because they had designed their custom UI renderer around the Macs ubiquitous HiDPI displays, leading to blurry fonts for the much, much larger proportion of Linux (and Windows) users who still use LoDPI displays.

Zed looks and feels amazing to use. I test-drove it for a bit on my linux system, and the feel of it is difficult to convey to those who have not tried it yet. It's easy to overlook the significance of gpu accelerated editor - but I promise you, use it for a bit and you'll be sold.

The only feature that is preventing me from switching to Zed is the current lack of DevContainer support[1]. After investing a significant amount of time perfecting a devcontainer (custom fat image with all tools/libs + config), it would be a large step backwards to go back to installing everything locally.

There's a lot of eyes on this feature, so I'm hopeful it will be implemented in the future.

[1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473

Unfortunately, I tried to use zed as my daily driver, but the typescript experience was subpar. While the editor itself was snappy, LSP actions like "jump to declaration" were incredibly slow on our codebase compared to VS Code / Cursor.

It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on.

I'm really liking it thus far!

  [Window Title]
  Critical

  [Main Instruction]
  Unsupported GPU

  [Content]
  Zed uses DirectX for rendering and requires a compatible GPU.

  Currently you are using a software emulated GPU (Microsoft Basic Render Driver) which
  will result in awful performance.

  For troubleshooting see: https://zed.dev/docs/windows
  Set ZED_ALLOW_EMULATED_GPU=1 env var to permanently override.


  [Skip] [Troubleshoot and Quit]

My work PC is a $600 laptop with an on-board GPU, will I notice a difference between this and Vscode?

Nice but too little/too late, already switched to Linux - where Zed already works great!

I have waited for this for months... but it's still only an x86_64 binary!

I love my ARM Surface Pro, and Zed would make a wonderful editor on this hardware. If anyone from Zed is reading this, please think about it!

I use this as Sublime replacement on my macOS. So far happy with it. Only use it as a general purpose text editor.

Okay, I may ocassionally do some code editing on it. But most of the time it's gotta be VSCode or vim/nvim.

I didn't know bundling app for the most popular OS is that hard.

I installed the beta a week or two ago. Many of the files I tried opening in it just did not work at all. It can only open utf-8 encoded files.

That is not a problem for code, but if you just want to open some random .txt file or .csv file, these are often enough not utf-8 encoded, especially if they contain non English text.

The github issue for this is showing progress, but I think it's a mistake to promote the editor to stable as is.

I switched from VSCode to Zed as my "I just need to edit this 1 little text file" app because VSCode was way too spammy. Every time I open it it wants to update something or complain about some extensions or complain that I had a file open and now it MUST close it because heaven forbid I open two things at once.

I hope Zed stays clean. We'll see. So far so good. Was quite happy they had a JetBrains base hotkey setup. Had to add a few of my own but I could pretty easily, nothing missing so far.

I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate?

If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is on. Also show me how fast the start up time is. This is another area where Emacs does not do well.

So Zed is available on Windows--but only if you have a x64 processor. Lots of people run Windows on Arm64 and I don't see any mention of Arm64. This is where the puck is heading.

Also noticed Emacs key binding is in beta still.

I tried it for a bit. But unless you want to use their choice of lsp/linter/whatever from what you are used to, then you will waste even more time customising zed to your needs from your previous solution.

Nice to see. Will probably start using it over quick edits on Windows.

I'd like to properly give it a go one day due to the effort put into its vim keybindings, but until then I'll stick to neovim.

Is this something like Sublime? Light/responsive editor for one-off files? But maybe with some better introspection? That would fill a niche for me; trying it. FYI download+install is the smoothest experience of any software I've loaded recently I didn't build myself. Going to daily-drive it for a bit and see what's up; promising!

What is Zed? A vscode like editor?

I'm so impressed by how quickly this team can ship new features. It seems like every few weeks there's a new major update!

tried to switch a few times

i can’t describe it in any other way other than it feels cold to use

i wonder if anyone else felt the same in earlier versions and feels that it’s fixed

> Zed isn't an Electron app; we integrate directly with the underlying platform for maximal control.

Sounds great. Looking forward to doing a simple test run with Astro SSG

The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272

Is it on winget?

I don't use windows, but this is good development as all platforms should be present for editors to be worth using. I am happy Zed user since long time, I am happy it had kept with out demands, with adding AI, Git etc. Also integration of cli tools into AI is excellent and really refreshing.

First, you should fix fundamental operations on Mac and other distributions - for example when you stash or perform operations on files from other tools, it will put the state out of sync.

You can build the most beautiful and fastest IDE, but with this bugs, it’s useless