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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

Mentions per year 267 mentions · busiest year 2025 (102)
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  1. …on Mac. Zed's font rendering on Linux is also buggy and ugly. And they don't seem to care much: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/11676 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issue…
  2. Immediately crashed for me on Arch Linux. Possibly related to whatever is causing this crash: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37247 I've been seeing a lot of crashes of late
    comment by deevus · 2025-09-04 · in Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
  3. There's an active PR providing inline edit completions via Ollama: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/33616
    comment by woodson · 2025-09-03 · in Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
  4. …They are fixing bugs pretty quickly. I will have to try it again. They have a nice discussion here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6447 They reference Ki, which also looks cool, and they out some of Helix's…
    comment by diegs · 2025-09-03 · in Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
  5. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/20086
    comment by SJMG · 2025-09-03 · in Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
  6. Their font rendering looks awful on non-high dpi displays, and the devs don't seem to care at all. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
    comment by sapiogram · 2025-09-03 · in Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
  7. …/ VSCode. Turns out I can't work without it. This is the top rated discussion on Github though: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/26770
    comment by iamkd · 2025-08-30 · in Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
  8. It's interesting to see that there's the beginnings of an implementation for Claude Code, here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates%2Fage... https://www.npmjs.com/package/@zed-industries/claude-code-ac... Even though…
    comment by tekacs · 2025-08-30 · in Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
  9. Don’t think you can do your own modes: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/38e5c8fb66ac19f58... allows custom keybinds to actions Modes look to be hardcoded (at the moment) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/vim/s…
  10. Zed is open-source under GPLv3 - https://github.com/zed-industries/zed That doesn't guarantee it will have paid contributors indefinitely, but the same is true of the other editors you listed. It does, however, guarantee that if Zed (the…
  11. …In fact, your slogan ("Code at the Speed of Thought") is a DIRECT rip-off from Zed ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed ) 3. Why should I bother with the switching costs? When you mention "better understanding of your codebase", do you…
    comment by suobset · 2025-08-27 · in A vibe-coding tool for serious developers
  12. …sourced their collab server components (as AGPLv3), at least well enough to self-host. For example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev... -- AFAIK it's just https://github.com/livekit/livekit The AI stuff will…
  13. …the zed diff viewer, you can do so using `zed --diff`, as demonstrated in this GitHub discussion: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/33503#disc...
    comment by andelink · 2025-08-21 · in Sequoia backs Zed
  14. …If your product is a text editor focused on code, your font rendering better be *top of class*. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
    comment by TranquilMarmot · 2025-08-21 · in Sequoia backs Zed
  15. …annoying bugs, and I am not excited to help fix them given the position of the code owners. [0] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12325
    comment by kjgkjhfkjf · 2025-08-21 · in Sequoia backs Zed
  16. …further upstream: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965269 But I can re-paste the link here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
  17. …CLA trap, the definition of "everyone" can be limited to just the company who created the project. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/zed/C...
  18. …have some house cleaning to do in their leadership before I am willing to use a product they back. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
    comment by hashbig · 2025-08-20 · in Sequoia backs Zed
  19. …everywhere. See the middle bug report, "Zed does not work in Remote Desktop session on windows" ( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/26692 ). Most Remote Desktop/Terminal Services environments won't have any Vulkan devices…
    comment by mrpippy · 2025-08-20 · in Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?
  20. Zed had already targeted macOS when 10.15 still had over a year of support left https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commit/b400449a58507cc... and some variant of x86-64 macOS will still be supported through 2028. Neither of these were…
    comment by zamadatix · 2025-08-20 · in Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?
  21. …Maguire's very loud and very public Islamophobia and open support for occupation and genocide: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
  22. …human", it'd be interesting to see how Nathan then responds to concerns raised in some quarters: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
    comment by ignoramous · 2025-08-20 · in Sequoia backs Zed
  23. …users can then use WinDbg or Visual Studio to debug the release-mode Zed at their leisure. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/35205 [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/c995dd2016a3d9f8b... [3]:…
    comment by delta_p_delta_x · 2025-08-20 · in Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?
  24. Seems like it might be reacting to or fanned to flame by: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
  25. From the documentation at https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/vim... { "context": "Editor && vim_mode == insert", "bindings": { "j k": "vim::NormalBefore" } }
  26. …You might still need to compile the importer yourself, but it's all pretty straightforward. 0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/7337 1: https://zed.dev/blog/user-themes-now-in-preview#using-a-vs-c...
    comment by 369548684892826 · 2025-07-23 · in You can now disable all AI features in Zed
  27. Not quite yet ... https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/33580
    comment by e12e · 2025-07-16 · in Helix Editor 25.07
  28. Relevant GH issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756
    comment by Nezteb · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  29. Here's the PR for variable/expression watching: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/32743 I don't think there's an issue for data breakpoints, but you can make one for us
    comment by anthony-eid · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  30. Recently the Zed team added some tools to help with merge conflicts: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4964#issuecomme...
    comment by Nezteb · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  31. Zed is FOSS: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
    comment by haiku2077 · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  32. …Vim, Emacs and VSCode are all able to render their fonts crisply while Zed is a blurry mess. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
    comment by gkbrk · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  33. …code editor, but no one on the Zed team seems to use a non-retina screen. Github issue for context: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
    comment by sapiogram · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  34. …it instantly, unfortunately it relies upon this pr being merged (I think, would love more input): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/29145 It is finally at the review stage, I really hope it can get merged soon!
    comment by que-encrypt · 2025-06-19 · in The Zed Debugger Is Here
  35. In my case this was the culprit: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/13190 otherwise it worked great mostly.
    comment by aquariusDue · 2025-05-12 · in Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?
  36. I dunno, you tell me? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589
    comment by muppetman · 2025-05-09 · in Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
  37. …have blurry text rendering on some resolutions if they did. Issue has been open for over a year. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
  38. I believe this PR fixes the issue: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/30178 .
    comment by maxbrunsfeld · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  39. …project’s response or lack of it on these topics, I am worried about adopting zed in my workflows. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12325 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756
    comment by shantara · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  40. I had the same issue with my nvidia gpu but resolved it with the fix in this thread: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14088
    comment by spongebobstoes · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  41. …can have undo-tree (as a plugin iirc). Many devs use it. Vote/read-up here for the feature on Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17455 And here on VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20889
    comment by cies · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  42. …it seems like there should be a way to use that open model locally, or what's the point? [0]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15968 [1]: https://zed.dev/blog/edit-prediction
    comment by coder543 · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  43. …the issue has an example showing Zed next to VS Code, and you can see that Zed is much blurrier: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/5507503/9883d38...
    comment by AndrewDucker · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  44. There's a PR for that [0] ! Eager to see it in action. [0] : https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/29496
    comment by antx · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  45. …comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.
    comment by lordofgibbons · 2025-05-07 · in Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
  46. …is horrible to work with, tons of false positives. Parent poster - you might find this useful: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/24801
  47. …Debugging isn't in yet, but is actively being worked on and planned for public release before 1.0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5065 , there's an active channel in their Discord discussing the development of the feature.
  48. Would be nice to have a build of Zed with everything AI-related stripped out https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756
    comment by cuu508 · 2025-04-24 · in Zed's new $20/mo subscription
  49. …I largely work in Zed -- looks like it had semantic search for a while but is working on a redesign https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/9564
  50. …editor has integrates with pretty much every model provider, and comes with Claude 3.5 for free: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases