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I do think gpui needs a native input element (enough that I wrote one ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43576 ) just before they stopped reviewing gpui prs) but outside of that I think it is pretty ok and cool that gpui just…

comment by iamnbutler · 2026-02-14 · in Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

…my own question had I simply looked here: https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce/pulls and here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Ao...

comment by nu11ptr · 2026-02-13 · in Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu

…just displaying text). And somehow the non-accelerated version is eating 24 cores. Just for text. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/23623 I ended up buying a new graphics card in the end. I just wish everyone could get…

comment by afandian · 2026-02-10 · in Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time

…removed the Help section from GitHub discussions to a sodding discord, please do chime in here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/48737

comment by drcongo · 2026-02-10 · in Discord Alternatives, Ranked

…ngemacs.org/article/combobulate-intuitive... [2]: https://github.com/alexispurslane/treesit-sexp [3]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/47571

comment by logicprog · 2026-01-27 · in After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

…saw the latest Zed release removing a list of tool calls from the default always_allow list. Yikes! https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/compare/v0.220.2...v0....

comment by ethersteeds · 2026-01-22 · in Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

…play audio (important in my domain), video, etc. Audio playback support is missing in Zed as well. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14409 I really like Zed, and I want to use it but I keep going back to VSCode when I need to be…

comment by earthnail · 2026-01-12 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

Specifically https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770#disc...

comment by jtflynnz · 2026-01-07 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

It looks like the most recent thread has noted an early feature flag for testing that! https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770#disc...

comment by jtflynnz · 2026-01-07 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…code base is already open source, so Anthropic has a much more straightforward way to see our code: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

comment by rtfeldman · 2026-01-07 · in Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

…waiting for them to merge. But I have a version that I use, you can build it if ya want! The PRs: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43553 , https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43944 My-Zed branch with both the features:…

comment by mostlyk · 2026-01-06 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

Good luck. It cannot even preserve unsaved files across restarts. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15098

comment by HackerThemAll · 2026-01-06 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…works for someone who 'vibecodes' entire project. [1] https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents [2] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37074

comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2026-01-06 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

I agree with that comment chain about the intelliJ diff view so much https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770#disc... I don't even need that to be built into the editor – I would pay for a fast, standalone git UI that is as…

comment by __jonas · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…diffs. There’s an open discussion about it, though it hasn’t seen much activity recently: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770 Stronger support for GDB/LLDB and broader C/C++ tooling would also be a big win. It’s pretty…

comment by ashvardanian · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

comment by TiredOfLife · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…font issue with Zed, they would just close this bug report. [1]: https://ibb.co/zVS0Qz6z [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

comment by gkbrk · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

I'd love to try Zed, but it's unusable on MacOS ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/20806 seems to be the issue). If that ever gets fixed then I'd look at replacing Sublime (which is still my go-to for quick editing) and then…

comment by rcleveng · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…uses far less power than Zed on my machine. I believe it is probably related to these issues: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21146 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8043

comment by dgllghr · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

Obligatory Zed takes money from bigots: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604

comment by alimbada · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…image/video preview which are deal brakers for me. Other pain points: - Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395 - VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better

comment by throwfaraway135 · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…editor besides JetBrains IDEs seem too interested in implementing it the way JetBrains does. 1 - https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7721

comment by Matl · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…any of them scratch your itch? Weighing in might help get your pain points resolved a bit faster? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20...

comment by xpe · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…I miss in Zed that I don't go over in the post, e.g. autodetect and respect file's indentation ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4681 ). But I see Zed is actively shipping the missing features, so I believe they'll improve…

comment by r4victor · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…because I work with/on my programming language which has LSP Semantic Highlighting, but Zed doesn't https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/39539 once it's merged I'll give it a go because it looks like a modern Sublime Text (which I…

comment by gdotdesign · 2026-01-05 · in I switched from VSCode to Zed

…slower commands) (note, there is an open PR for Zed to pull LSP diagnostics into an AI agent thread https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/42270 but it would be better if agents could make arbitrary LSP queries or something like that)

comment by nextaccountic · 2025-12-22 · in Claude Code gets native LSP support

Oh damn, this is awesome. I wonder if https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/18129 is still accurate. Would love to be able to use Ghostty as my Zed terminal.

comment by indemnity · 2025-12-01 · in Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility

…great to know! There are plenty of issues which are reasonably well documented in the zed repo. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/26277 About 4mos ago I moved to using brew for zed because at the time there was some hard block…

comment by dayjah · 2025-11-30 · in NixOS 25.11 released

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/gpui/... GPUI is a great example of the insane amount of boilerplate needed to create a component when you don't have inheritance. My guess is that people don't create a lot of…

comment by seanalltogether · 2025-11-16 · in When did people favor composition over inheritance?

…that I never really thought of my text editor needing to use my graphics card for rendering. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37448

comment by johntash · 2025-11-14 · in Zed is our office

Nope, it is the thing where people say "blurry" to describe "blurry". https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme... This is how Zed looks like on my computer too. VSCode manages to render things crisply while Zed is a…

comment by gkbrk · 2025-11-14 · in Zed is our office

…issues for a while. [1] I wish there was font hinting to the like of windows font rendering. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

comment by phcreery · 2025-11-13 · in Zed is our office

…open the panels inside an editor split? - Do you want to detach the panels as separate windows? ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17618 )

comment by olejorgenb · 2025-11-13 · in Zed is our office

…to me like it should should be a number #1 priority. "an editor need to nail the editing part". https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26344 on the positive side I do like that you can in-place edit the result of global search.

comment by gryn · 2025-11-13 · in Zed is our office

…of wysiwyg for editing markdown would really be a great addition. Or even just for preview ... https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21717

comment by tomComb · 2025-11-13 · in Zed is our office

…on to expanding feature sets. For now I'm back in NeoVIM because it always works the first time.... https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/38109 Hopefully soon I can give it another shot at full time usage.

comment by BinaryPie · 2025-11-13 · in Zed is our office

It could be easier, but it is supported AFAIK: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8260#issuecomme...

comment by nixpulvis · 2025-11-13 · in Zed is our office

They use rust for the gpu https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui See the discussion on a collection of elements ontop https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719004

comment by stefanka · 2025-11-06 · in Ratatui – App Showcase

It's a shame Zed founders unapologetically take money from bigots: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604

comment by alimbada · 2025-10-29 · in From VS Code to Helix

…Zed goes about downloading code (“extensions”?) invisibly with no user input. See, for example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 > or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year As a…

comment by zargon · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…compared to other programming language. I notice there's a (closed) issue on the Zed github [ https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/34376 ], > At this time, we prioritize performance and out-of-the-box functionality over minimal…

comment by vilhelm_s · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…a significant bottleneck - I'm about to file a bug. EDIT - commented on the tsserver thread here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/18698#issuecomm...

comment by antmarti · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…and reopen the file to get fresh contents. Eventually, I'll forget to do it and lose some work. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15791

comment by vitro · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…There's a lot of eyes on this feature, so I'm hopeful it will be implemented in the future. [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11473

comment by Alupis · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…suspend & resume my Linux box [0,1] but I'm optimistic about the progress they're making on it. 0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7940 1: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23288

comment by evil-olive · 2025-10-15 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…font rendering, but font rendering on Linux looks massively better after a patch last week: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992#issuecomme...

comment by sapiogram · 2025-10-15 · in Zed is now available on Windows

The windowing is pretty broken if you use system scaling https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/40272

comment by rovingeye · 2025-10-15 · in Zed is now available on Windows

…https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/3225 Other Tahoe issues with non-Electron apps: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/33182 https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/7255

comment by c-hendricks · 2025-09-25 · in Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe

…worked on - there have been 8 font rendering PRs in the past 3 weeks, most recently yesterday: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Ac... A downside that comes with the territory of building the rendering pipeline from…

comment by rtfeldman · 2025-09-25 · in Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based

…that is what vscode uses. Apparently there’s been a neglected issue about bringing it to Zed. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4560

comment by hmokiguess · 2025-09-25 · in Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based