alt Hacker NewsThis was my experience with the editor as well. For about 2 seconds, I admired how clean it was. I then struggled to read anything at all and haven't reopened it since.
(Edit to get ahead of the comments: I'm sure I can change it. Customization is important. Almost as important as good defaults)
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fusslo • today at 12:29 PM
My experience with Zed was installing it and giving up after spending 15 minutes or so making the settings sane
It's probably just because I'm old
I tried zed for its vertical agent threads grouped by project (which Claude Code has since added) and had the same experience--even after trying a bunch of different themes. It felt like none of the dark themes had enough text contrast.
Maybe my eyes are just getting worse...