I really enjoy the AI assistant it has. One of the simplest easiest ways for me to interact with chatgpt/claude apis. Write prompt, copy, paste code.

As a Zed developer, our killer feature is the parallel programming that our software enables. It's like pairing without the terrible parts.

> besides "it's really quick"

I can see the appeal, as the demo looks really smooth; then again, I'm a terrible slow developer, so personally I find saving few ms here and there irrelevant to my daily workflow

i definitely agree, and Id LOVE a snappy editor, but I struggle to trade thay off with everything else other editors provide

I've been looking (for years!) for an editor with code highlight which can open single files as fast as notepad++ but on linux, I have to say I'm really happy about zed.

I also use it to open folders with source code and markdown documents without having to boot up an intellij editor

I'm using Zed for a couple of months now. As a Vim bindings user, my personal fav Zed feature is that the Vim bindings really work.

Zed is made by people who used Vim themselves.

that is actually really cool - I always felt like (and surely am not the only one) that vim is great keybindings but an okay editor. If someone addresses this that'd be incredible.

I was watching thorsten and the primeagen's chat yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XweSqTYdMQ and thorsten was describing a few challenges with translating vim's functionality into zed.

Part of it being that zed doesn't have an intermediate layer between keyboard input and keybindings, so by the time the vim layer is hit it has been translated to a keybindings - that limitation kind of put me off.