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Congrats! I just started playing with Zed last week. Changelog notes, for the curious: https://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.0.0.
Congrats to the Zed team! I really like your editor and it works surprisingly well, althought there are a few rough edges still with the python experience.
The debugger in Python FastAPI and mainly Django is not working as expected. Hopefully soon will be fixed.
This editor sounds awesome, but it's sad they didn't make the UI accessible.
Massive congratulations to the team and the community. Thanks for the solid product. It's fast and native on Linux with Wayland. I don't use any of the AI stuff, though, so I'm glad there is a switch to disable it.
I love zed. What CLI agent and model do you use with it? I am looking for something on par with CC+Opus4.6, possibly subscription-based
1.0 and still has the wrong colours when ran in Wayland and lacks bitmap font support.
Congrats to the Zed! I've been using zed since their first launch on HN. They did not even have a search + replace function at that time! I now use zed all_the_time.
What an awesome journey!
Why does signing up through Github require the "act on behalf" permission?
That seems risky.
Last time I heard about Zed I was intrigued. Now i'm interested, going to give it a go.
Congtats for reaching 1.0
Gotta say farewell to Sublime. Now Zed is my general purposed text editor. For doing most of my coding work, still use VSCode and nvim.
Zed is the only editor I use on a daily basis and VIM. It is fast and renders nicely. I do not need to configure it much, few extra plugins but most of the things are working out of the box.
I really like Zed but it's most recent big changes to Git integration and Parallel Agents has forced me to disable both of those features as the way they work just didn't suit me and my workflow
Congratulations to the Zed team! What a great project.
The newer layout that came along with the parallel agents feature is very nice; even without using parallel agents regularly, this is a breath of fresh air.
Congrats on the launch. I have been using zed since 2026 exclusively. I moved from JetBrains and am genuinely happy. Missing the compare with clipboard though.
Nobody in the post or the comment talked about how it is built on top of / similarly to Godot Engine. Congrats to the Zed team!
It has replaced VS Code for my for my work and side projects.
I don't use AI tools in 90% of the projects.
It's snappy, fast, everything just works. I have the vim mode turned on while editing.
does this support plugins? How does it integrate with cmake projects?
Just installed it and used it for a bit, Great Editor. It sometimes lags and slows down but overall good experience, all these things can be fixed in later patches.
I switched to Zed about three months ago, and honestly, I’m loving it. It just works, it doesn’t lag, and it doesn’t eat all my RAM. Thanks, and congrats!
dope work. hopefully this release - fixes the occasional freeze that happens on Mac-os.
I use Zed as my daily driver - I'm happy with it - besides the occasional freeze.
I like Zed, I had only a few issues switching from VSCode. And I love the responsiveness of the crew in the repo! Keep it up, you're my default!
Congrats Zed team! Big fan, Zed is my daily driver.
Congrats to the Zed team for abandoning zero-based versioning!
Congrats Zed! GPUI has been a huge inspiration.
Whenever I think to myself “yikes that sounds too hard”, my next thought is “well, Zed team could probably do it”.
Congratulations to the team, I've been on Zed exclusively for a couple of years and it has been nothing but great on macOS and Linux.
I use zed as a quick editor for stuff using usaved files.
I don't like how it loses the session when I reopen it randomly (and not randomly every upgrade).
i have been a zed junkie since it came out. i feel very happy for the team. and they seem to be very focused and disciplined about what they are building. it makes me feel like i am making the right bet!
Been loving Zed for the last few months. The Dev Containers were the last thing I needed to switch over and been steady ever since.
"Instead of building Zed like a web page, we built it like a video game, --", uh, what.
and then the whole telemetry bit.
bye.
I feel like the last time I looked at Zed it didn't support windows, looks like it does now but it sure scared windows defender.
After hearing Zed has vim mode, I might give it a try. Currently my workflow is just opencode + nvim/opencode
daily driver has been zed ever since they introduced helix more. still super excited to see how far it can go. congrats to them
Great product! Would love to see some search (tree view) and git (staged vs unstaged diffs) improvements in the future!
I haven’t booted up an editor in a long time but I’ve written lots of software recently (mostly with codex).
Interesting times…
I switched to Zed as my main editor about a year ago, and I’m not going back! What a great product!
Congrats to the Zed team! Great to see people continuing to work on important tooling like editors these days.
Could anyone tell me what’s the point of this when you have neovim?
This will never be an IDE like Jetbrains Rider if you use a language like C# where those guys excel at: sheer volume of refactorings, static and dynamic analysis, cpu and memory analysis, what have you.
And for a scratchpad: is this really better than neovim?
I love how snappy Zed is. Well done, folks. You should be proud of your work.
Serious question, is there any advantage to Zed if one does not use LLM assisted coding?
Once there was Vim, and then there is Zed. In between I just found useless UI bloats.
Simply love it!
I've been using Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA as my main IDE for Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc. for the last 3 years, and this Christmas I switched to Zed, and I'm not looking back.
I was admittedly skeptical of Zed in the beginning, because they started out with so few features, and it seemed impossible to really switch permanently to it and still be as productive. The Jetbrains platform has got such an amazingly rich set of features and an uncanny ability to just nail the editor experience. It seems almost unthinkable that anyone would be able to compete, and for a long time Zed was very far behind, but this year I feel they're finally a viable alternative.
What ultimately pushed me towards Zed was performance and the sheer amount of work-stopping bugs. I would have days where Jetbrains would get unresponsive or extremely sluggish. Suddenly "undo" would stop working (!). Major and minor upgrades often introduced perplexing performance degradation. In short, I've wasted insane amounts of time on bugs and on filing detailed bug reports that are never looked at. That undo bug has been open for maybe a year now.
For all the bells and whistles, I think Jetbrains faces an intractable problem. It's just utterly unrealistic that they'll be able to solve everything unless they stopped all development to focus on just stability. The product is too big, too complex, too unwieldy, and too bloated. I was always allocating 16GB RAM to Jetbrains, and often had it sit there consuming 1000% (!) CPU. Zed chews up a couple of gigs at most, and rarely uses much CPU. There's a tendency for editors to get bloated as they evolve. This certainly happens with Atom. I'm really hoping Zed will stay lean.
Congratulations from me too — it quickly became my go-to editor (sorry, VSCode)
Tried it yesterday. HUGE fan of how the agents work and how the editor feels.
Tried using Zed but for some reason the AI can't open the browser?
I tried zed sometime ago, and the limiting factor was devcontainer support. It looks like they’ve made some progress there https://zed.dev/docs/dev-containers
Congrats guys! I've been using zed since a few months ago, I would consider myself a "light" user but I do enjoy the experience. My only sour point would be the not so smooth integration with claude code. But I've learmt to live with it for now
VSCode is draining my battery, looking forward to trying this
Just downloaded, installed, turns out it doesn't have pdf preview capability