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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by johnisgood on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:23AM (#45602791) 

  $ strip --strip-all ./target/release/zed
  $ du -h ./target/release/zed
  261M    ./target/release/zed

  $ strip --strip-all ./target/debug/zed
  $ du -h ./target/debug/zed
  482M    ./target/debug/zed
Correct. It is still embarrassing, in my opinion.

To make matters worse, it takes several minutes for Zed's window to appear on a cold start, whereas VSCode launches almost instantly.

[1] I am trying to measure it as we speak but it is taking quite a long time.

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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by neobrain on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:27AM (#45602825)
> Not to mention it takes minutes for the window of Zed to open, whereas VSCode is almost instant.

That one is interesting. It's much quicker for me, even cold starts are below 1s, and subsequent startups are basically instant.

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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by johnisgood on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:29AM (#45602843)
Cold starts are minutes, subsequent startups are much faster than VSCode[1].

I wonder why though.

[1] I have not measured subsequent launches of VSCode though, but Zed is relatively pretty quick after the initial launch.

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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by SSLy on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:08AM (#45603942)
Maybe some kind of "security" software interfering?
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