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Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

267 mentions on Hacker News by 221 people: 18 stories, 249 comments · first 2024-01-24 · latest 2026-11-01

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  1. …interoperability and helps a lot of IDEs and ADEs integrate all the major harnesses seamlessly zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed orca https://github.com/stablyai/orca/tree/main/src/main I haven't looked at the cli implementation…
  2. …they believed a partial fix was sufficient, and have ignored subsequent comments to the contrary): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/55746
    comment by garrettr_ · 2026-09-18 · in Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
  3. Here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/38109
    comment by the__alchemist · 2026-09-18 · in Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
  4. I must say again, can not manual refresh the file tree in zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 Zed is fast and good at many things but need to focus on basic fix or agentic edits broken
    comment by NoDodgeQuestion · 2026-09-18 · in Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
  5. This seems like the direction Zed has taken. Which they even enforce actively: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=label%3A%22no... .
    comment by epestr · 2026-09-17 · in One year of sponsored Servo development
  6. …touch crates/zed/src/zed.rs ~github/zed-industries/zed % cargo build Compiling zed v1.18.0 (/home/raggi/src/github.com/zed-industries/zed/crates/zed) Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 8.42s cargo build 10.15s…
    comment by raggi · 2026-09-11 · in Rune is now open source
  7. …response¹ just because they can't route http requests. Bad look for their LLM workflow push. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/29962
    comment by wraptile · 2026-08-13 · in Delta
  8. …least it won't bloat the editor... Nevertheless another Zed post, another plea to focus on basics https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 [how can developers work with agents in zed when developers cannot see files agents…
    comment by NoDodgeQuestion · 2026-08-12 · in Delta
  9. lucky you, but here's the issue (note: there have been at least 3 issues before this one) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/58651 crossing fingers it's solved for real now. i only use wayland on my laptop where it seems to be…
    comment by yza · 2026-08-06 · in Zed DeltaDB
  10. …when you open the project with special "projects: open folder in WSL" command, see my comment here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26857#disc... Nevertheless it could have been working better.
    comment by blain · 2026-08-06 · in Zed DeltaDB
  11. …maintain it comes along, it's just in maintenance mode. These "AI" features are not useful at all. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/53403#disc...
    comment by waterTanuki · 2026-08-06 · in Zed DeltaDB
  12. …what... so I don't necessarily fault Zed for this. The same issue occurs in other apps. - [0] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14473
    comment by whalesalad · 2026-08-05 · in Zed DeltaDB
  13. …related issues in a PR but it hasn't gotten any attention yet. I guess they are a bit swamped. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/59937
    comment by infogulch · 2026-08-05 · in Zed DeltaDB
  14. …"DeltaDB" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecommen... - rejected because it "doesn’t match our design vision for Zed") This is my #1…
    comment by umvi · 2026-08-05 · in Zed DeltaDB
  15. I had to stop using Zed because of this issue (which persists despite being closed): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/38109 I can't use an editor where the file contents I'm being shown don't match the reality of the file. I…
    comment by JaggedJax · 2026-08-05 · in Zed DeltaDB
  16. …the lack of comments does suggest maybe it's not that wide spread either way not a good look. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/47004 Maybe I got lucky?? Does it not auto update on linux maybe I am on an old build... Very…
    comment by minraws · 2026-08-05 · in Zed DeltaDB
  17. Zed should focus on basics. When it focuses on basics Zed is good. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 failing to show newly created files and declining to provide a refresh button, instead adding a polling backend,…
    comment by NoDodgeQuestion · 2026-08-05 · in Zed DeltaDB
  18. Yep! GPUI added WASM compilation targets in Feb! https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/50228 Someone also seems to have added mobile support too https://github.com/itsbalamurali/gpui-mobile
  19. …Office suite: LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org IDE: Zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed Window management: Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle Menubar system monitor: Stats https://github.com/exel
  20. …understand that the accessibility support is crucial and that's where my hope comes from. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6576
    comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2026-06-22 · in Deno Desktop
  21. …coherent one, despite some interest [1]. Pretty much the only reason I’m still with JetBrains. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/34759
    comment by shibel · 2026-06-11 · in Software is made between commits
  22. …Silverblue/Kinoite. --- [1]( https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/11... ) [2]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58500 ) [3]( https://github.com/flathub/dev.zed.Zed/pull/342#issuecomment... )
  23. ▲ 3
    Fable 5 is available in Zed
    story by flaburgan · 2026-06-10 · 2 comments
  24. That's a link to a hacker news post, which links to a reddit post, which links to https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 if anyone wants to go right to the 'open' issue.
  25. Sign In button can be hidden: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/11054#disc...
    comment by graynk · 2026-05-11 · in Zed Editor Theme-Builder
  26. …"markdown_preview_font_family": "Fira Sans Condensed", "markdown_preview_theme": "Ayu Dark", https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/54003
    comment by lejalv · 2026-05-10 · in Zed Editor Theme-Builder
  27. It does this, but only for a couple dozen file extensions -- .svelte is one of them. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/c8f09caee42ea4e27...
    comment by notpeter · 2026-05-10 · in Zed Editor Theme-Builder
  28. Copying my own comment below, with GH links and my (non-AI) summary after skimming: > https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054 > https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 > TL;DR: Mix of language tooling, unsigned…
    comment by Intralexical · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  29. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 TL;DR: Mix of language tooling, unsigned proprietary blobs, corrupted and/or GLIBC-dependent files, redundant copies of already-installed…
    comment by Intralexical · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  30. …is based on misunderstandings or on obviously factually wrong arguments is not very useful. [0] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/50568#issuecomm... (could be some better source than a github comment but it has been repeated…
    comment by freehorse · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  31. …licenses are the only thing that applies, and the new terms codify this more clearly than the old. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/50568#issuecomm...
    comment by freehorse · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  32. …now and it's great. A few flaws obviously since slopped over the weekend, but it's good enough. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/26560#issuecomm...
    comment by 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  33. Zed is also released under GPL 3: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/LICENSE-GPL
    comment by DougBTX · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  34. Did Zed ever answer their code of conduct violation? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
    comment by shimman · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  35. Initializing the http client is one of the very first things this text editor does in "app.run()": https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/a7c9c24f40d7e9169... Line 497 suggests it fails without it. There are hundreds of references to…
    comment by marshray · 2026-04-30 · in Zed 1.0
  36. AMD https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/50996
    comment by opengrass · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  37. Does it work on Ubuntu yet? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14237
    comment by lbrito · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  38. I want to try Zed, but it's just too much of a supply chain attack waiting to happen. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 I did install it in a VM with virtio-gpu, but it was absurdly slow, so I wasn't able to try it.
    comment by zargon · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  39. Context usage is in an open PR now! https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/54881 give it a week or two depending on if you want to use stable vs preview releases. I haven't tried pasting images yet either but I have used their context…
    comment by wldcordeiro · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  40. …in the middle of adding functionality where you can have terminal/CLI threads and ACP threads too. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/54729
    comment by wldcordeiro · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  41. …They redirect to discord, but AFAIK that doesn't have a way to make a feature request directly? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/47593 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/48098…
    comment by nu11ptr · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  42. Don't need to create an issue, both have had issues for them for 2 years. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/9057 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12629
    comment by fishgoesblub · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  43. …the search using escape. Telescope style search in vim, helix or JetBrains tools is so much better. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478
    comment by f311a · 2026-04-29 · in Zed 1.0
  44. I'll just leave this here (again): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
    comment by alimbada · 2026-04-23 · in Parallel agents in Zed
  45. …"blame prior revision" feature to quickly follow through the history of individual source lines. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/42583 Thanks for building an awesome product :)
    comment by neobrain · 2026-04-23 · in Parallel agents in Zed
  46. And yet the file explorer still fails to update when the files actually change https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/30851
    comment by apatheticonion · 2026-04-23 · in Parallel agents in Zed
  47. …lot of tool calls in various agent harnesses to start failing like the edit tool. Example zed issue https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/54219?issue=zed...
  48. …and reluctantly went back to VS Code. The papercut that finally did it for me was [this open bug]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/36516 ) because of which I was not able to step into a packaged library's code when I was…
  49. For example https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/42905#issuecommen... So there is now a fork: https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce/ But I don't know if that's sustainable.
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    Zed Removes Text Threads
    story by gslepak · 2026-04-02 · 0 comments