News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed.

Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by shubhamjain on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:41AM (#39409808)
I used Zed for a while. The biggest performance improvements I noticed, compared to VS Code, were in start-up times and the opening of files. Sure, Zed feels snappy in those areas, but I feel VS Code is simply not that bad speed-wise when it comes to everyday coding. Especially, in the era of M1 Macs. Zed may win the battle in the longer term, but I feel slow performance has to truly annoy the fuck out of the user to convince them to make the switch. Right now, I am sticking with VS Code.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by mountainriver on Saturday February 17, 2024 @12:26PM (#39411394)
The ecosystem around VScode is so hard to beat. I found their AI features far more limited than what I have available in vsc.

Community usually wins

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by bihla on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:03AM (#39410041)
For our team, VS Code is reaching that point. The Macbooks can’t keep up with VS Code’s decay.

Unfortunately Zed lacks good defaults (like a way to change tabs without the mouse) and certain vs code features like snippets. Makes it difficult to transition a team which has been dependent on Vscode and which has absolutely no interest in spending our days configuring tools

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by dewey on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:30AM (#39410332)
Are you running a lot of extensions or giant file sizes or how are the computers not keeping up with VS Code?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed by satvikpendem on Saturday February 17, 2024 @11:24AM (#39410840)
I've witnessed both scenarios, yes. In contrast, vim simply works.
[ Parent | on HN ]