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2036 sats \ 4 comments \ @w3irdrobot 24 Jan devs

This looks amazing based on the promises. Anyone using it yet?

I'm not unhappy with VSCode but it's more like I'm content using it relative to other things and less so "omg I can't believe this."

636 sats \ 0 replies \ @w3irdrobot OP 24 Jan

i completely agree with this sentiment. i haven't tried zed out. i'd love to, but they only build for mac currently.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @yfaming 25 Jan

As a Rust coder, I'm pretty happy to try anything written in Rust. I just used Zed for half an hour, and I like it.

The UI is to my taste. I like the theme, font, and the overall feeling of it. I like VSCode a lot, but I hate its side pane, especially the one showing the directory tree. In Zed you can adjust the font size of the side pane (ui_font_size) directly, which is not supported by VSCode. Zed has VIM mode, great! Rust support also seems good (via rust-analyzer)!

Zed even developed a GPU accelerated UI framework for Rust, GPUI https://www.gpui.rs/. I always want to do some GUI programming in Rust. But I'm not a native speaker of HTML/CSS. Glad to see alternative choices.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @w3irdrobot OP 30 Jan

for those coming after, it appears they have a roadmap issue for a linux client: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015