Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor

Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor by jeremy_k on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @09:42AM (#43915574)

I was a RubyMine and later IDEA user for many many years. I agree with everything you've said but I got so tired of the IDE using excessive RAM and constantly making my fan spin (2019 Intel MBP). Switching to Zed made my experience on this laptop enjoyable again, the downside being that I miss out on some of the features from the JetBrains editors.

I've learned to work around the loss of some functionality over the past 6 months since I've switched and it hasn't been too bad. The AI features in Zed have been great and I'm looking forward to the debugger release so I can finally run and debug tests in Zed.

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Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor by epiccoleman on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @09:47AM (#43915642)

> (2019 Intel MBP)

I used to have one of these and recently got an M1 Max machine - the performance boost is seriously incredible.

The throttling on those late-game intel macs is hardcore - at one point I downloaded Hot[1], which is a menu bar app that shows you when you're being throttled. It was literally all the time that the system was slowing itself down due to heat. I eventually just uninstalled it because it was a constant source of frustration to know I was only ever getting 50% performance out of my expensive dev laptop.

[1]: https://github.com/macmade/Hot

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Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor by jeremy_k on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:23AM (#43916921)

I got an M4 as a new work machine and it is absolutely bonkers how much faster and quieter it is. And the battery lasts forever, even when running my dev setup. I can actually go and work at a coffee shop for a couple hours without taking the charger now.

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Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor by kstrauser on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:38PM (#43918543)

Same here. My slightly older M2 MacBook Air seems to be allergic to electricity. I wouldn't be afraid of leaving the house without a charger before a full day's work, as long as I'm not planning to run compute-heavy stuff the entire time.

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Re:Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor by apwell23 on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @09:50AM (#43915674)

prbaly not solution you are looking for but try m1 machines. 'my ide is too big for my laptop' is a thing of the past.

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