Re:Zed is now available on Windows
by markus_zhang on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:23AM
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ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE. I wish there were something like VSCode that is very modular but written in native. But VSCode is good enough and it is my daily driver.
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For those on Windows, which is the topic at hand, UltraEdit and Notepad++.
I disagree Zed is an IDE, it is quite far from InteliJ, Borland/Embarcadero, VS, XCode, Eclipse, Netbeans...
If it is about adding enough plugins until it eventually becomes one, then any programmer's editor is an IDE.
Re:Zed is now available on Windows
by trenchpilgrim on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:15AM
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My line is - if I can compile, run and debug my program through the editor UI instead of a terminal, it's an IDE.
As I said, then any programmer editor is an IDE, including UltraEdit and Notepad++.
Re:Zed is now available on Windows
by trenchpilgrim on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:45AM
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Notepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?
It has plugins....and about 30 years of ecosystem history.
Try to use Zed to debug Go code.
Re:Zed is now available on Windows
by trenchpilgrim on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:54PM
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I'm literally doing that right now. I can set breakpoints and graphically step through them in Go files.
Yeah, thanks to
Sublime Text can run code from its UI too. IDE is much more full-featured, like VS vs VSCode or IntelliJ vs Fleet.
> ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE.
Zed is the new emacs?
No. In Emacs you can write a simple one line script and change anything.
In Zed, you need to write a full blown plugin, and can change only what the Zed authors exposed through their plugin API.