Re:Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packa...
by haddr on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:11AM
(#40904670)
Zed is supposed to be a lightweigh and fast text editor. That was my hope when trying it. This is not the case. When I was editing some JS or HTML file I noticed that my laptop is quite warm. I checked all processes and there was some node process taking up 100% of one of CPUs. It was some language server running in the background in some non-efficient way. The problem with Zed is that its mission is to be "engineered for performance", while in the background they cut corners and run some heavy unoptimized stuff. I think this is not a right strategy, even cosindering it is still in beta.
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Re:Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packa...
by DrBazza on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:14AM
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The language server isn't part of Zed though is it? You should report the issues on their github page.
Re:Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packa...
by haddr on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:19AM
(#40904748)
it is not, but as the title says: it all happens in the background, without you being aware what happens.
The good thing is that this can be turned off with this option: "enable_language_server": false