alt Hacker NewsI wanted to check the hype, so I installed Zed and opened a go project.
Ram usage:
VS Code 580 MB
Zed 410 MB
I don't see a reason yet to switch away from VS Code, more feature complete and I don't care about scroll speed, it's good enough in vs code.
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Kind of there with you... was pretty surprised how big the surface was with Zed, and it definitely doesn't do all the things I do in Code currently.
How much of the RAM usage is by gopls (The Go LSP)?
Last time I used zed for go development it spawned nodejs servers (downloaded without asking for permission!) for god knows what.
I dont understand the zed hype, not only the UI has tons of issues, memory usage is not that different
what about CPU usage? Overall I agree, it doesn't have enough plugins and is not well supported yet.
Try Sublime Text if you want lower RAM usage. My instance is currently sitting at ~120mb with 3 separate projects open (that does not include usage by Rust Analyzer which runs in a separate process (and tends to use GBs of RAM), but I suspect your numbers don't either)