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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. No. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756
    comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk · 2024-08-21 · in Zed AI
  2. Is it simple? https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756
    comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk · 2024-08-21 · in Zed AI
  3. …Zed on Windows. (The editor part at least, I haven't tried the collaborative functions). git clone https://github.com/zed-industries/zed cargo run --release
    comment by ghh · 2024-08-20 · in Zed AI
  4. I'm more in this camp: > Add build time options to disable ML/AI features https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756 Just give me a good editor.
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-08-20 · in Zed AI
  5. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/16349
    comment by thomascountz · 2024-08-19 · in Leaving Neovim for Zed
  6. …workarounds. Edit: As if on cue, another PR to seemingly default to sending data to zed.dev: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/16454 [0]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 [1]:…
    comment by thomascountz · 2024-08-19 · in Leaving Neovim for Zed
  7. no windows https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394
    comment by 38 · 2024-08-18 · in Leaving Neovim for Zed
  8. …that I think many people will immediately be struck by: - Zed does not yet support EditorConfig. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8534 - Zed does not yet support auto-detecting indentation in the current file.…
    comment by jchw · 2024-08-18 · in Leaving Neovim for Zed
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    I have 9 year old unsaved content in Sublime
    story by tosh · 2024-08-14 · 2 comments
  10. Zed is written in Rust: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed . It seems relatively straightforward to write an extension for it, but I've never personally tried (I suck at Rust). I will say that Lua is extremely easy to pick up, and as…
    comment by pantsforbirds · 2024-08-12 · in Ask HN: What code editors or IDEs are easily scriptable?
  11. …the server implementation too, but short of figuring out how to run that not that I'm aware of: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/colla...
    comment by gpm · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  12. …actually have bindings for each OS and built a Rust abstraction on top of that. That's pretty wild https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/gpui/...
    comment by apatheticonion · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  13. Unfortunately, they've switched out their Zed fonts for IBM Plex: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/13596
    comment by sphars · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  14. Tried the advice, but wasn't able to change behavior. Added a [comment]( https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/13552#issuecomm... ) to an existing issue
    comment by natemcintosh · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  15. There is some support to flatpak already, see https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by figomore · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  16. …some support to flatpak, but it's not distributed on flathub yet. You have to build by yourself https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by figomore · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  17. We have a flatpak build! It's not on flathub yet though :) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by mikaylamaki · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  18. …prepping this linux launch, we've started work on making this situation better. Follow along here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/14034
    comment by mikaylamaki · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
  19. …disable it, but you can't, as far as I can tell. There's this somewhat angry issue about it here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589 They might have a point but beyond whether or not they have a point regarding the fact…
    comment by jchw · 2024-07-10 · in Zed on Linux Is Here
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    Zed Has Linux Support
    story by aabiji · 2024-07-10 · 0 comments
  21. …if Zed wants to ship a binary package upstream that defaults to downloading things they can. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589
    comment by xpe · 2024-07-08 · in Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
  22. This was also documented here, nearly 1-year ago: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/6659 Where there is a VSCode theme importer for Zed. And what it does is silently install a Home Brew package and attempt to execute it on…
    comment by throwaway202407 · 2024-07-08 · in Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
  23. Thanks for this response. Zed is awesome, haven't been able to switch to it full-time due to [1] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5065 , but do appreciate what's being built. It's a new product, which is clearly seeing quick…
    comment by ishaanbahal · 2024-07-08 · in Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
  24. …extensions once we finish other projects. [0]: https://github.com/zed-industries/extensions [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/extensions [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/langu... [3]:…
    comment by as-cii · 2024-07-08 · in Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
  25. …still thinking about how to best implement the UX for extensions downloading LSPs and whatnot. [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomme...
    comment by pynappo · 2024-07-08 · in Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
  26. …in this space are greatly appreciated! I run Linux and Windows so I keep my eyes fixed on https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/12062#issuecommen... - - zed is a cross platform, gpu rendered, rust-based editor.. Jupyter support should…
    comment by phromo · 2024-07-07 · in Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS
  27. …(not sure why it's not prominently mentioned in in their docs though). The built-in ones are here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/extensions . There are others outside the main tree as well, all of which are accessible…
    comment by joncfoo · 2024-06-28 · in Pulsar – A Community-Led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor
  28. …each bounty[1]. Here's an example of Scott Chacon using Algora to sponsor a bounty in the Zed repo https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4440 . He posted about his experience on Twitter here: https://x.com/chacon/status/1770005036170…
    comment by ayewo · 2024-06-19 · in Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bounties?
  29. …docs. (Some of them are source-available not free, I didn't keep track as I collected the URLs.) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed https://github.com/microsoft/vscode https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone…
    comment by yencabulator · 2024-05-29 · in Mobifree – An open-source mobile ecosystem
  30. …ightly-host.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/nightly... or github release, but only on *-pre tag like this https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.134.1-...
    comment by tuananh · 2024-05-10 · in Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
  31. you can build zed for linux, today :) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by iamnbutler · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  32. …mode UI framework[2]. [1]: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0001 (fist post on his blog!) [2]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/main/crates/gpui
    comment by forgotpwd16 · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  33. I'm curious why Zed chose Blade over wgpu/wgpu-hal. There's a bit of detail here: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015 But I'd be curious to read a longer writeup on the tradeoffs and how they came to their decision.
    comment by tylerekahn · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  34. …is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter [1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
    comment by genpfault · 2024-05-07 · in Linux When?
  35. Last I checked, text was very blurry, so it's unusable for me https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
    comment by WhereIsTheTruth · 2024-05-06 · in Preview Builds of the Zed Editor Now Available for Linux
  36. And a WIP PR even: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/11130
    comment by infogulch · 2024-04-30 · in Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
  37. There is an open issue about helix keybinds: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4642
    comment by ssernikk · 2024-04-29 · in Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree
  38. They're still WIP but build instructions are available for Linux and Windows: Building Zed for Linux: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev... Building Zed for Windows: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/…
    comment by infogulch · 2024-04-19 · in Extensible Language Support in Zed
  39. Its almost here. They've been making a lot of progress on windows and linux support: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits/main/?since=20...
    comment by pc_edwin · 2024-04-10 · in Zed Decoded: Async Rust
  40. I don't mean to reply-guy this thread, but it builds on Windows (and Linux) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/docs/src/dev...
    comment by simonerlic · 2024-04-09 · in Zed Decoded: Async Rust
  41. mac only: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394
    comment by 38 · 2024-04-09 · in Zed Decoded: Async Rust
  42. …local LLM within Zed's environment. For more details, you can refer to the GitHub issue directly: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4424#issuecomme...
    comment by sumanmichael · 2024-02-22 · in Local LLM Assistant in Zed Editor
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    Local LLM Assistant in Zed Editor
    story by sumanmichael · 2024-02-22 · 1 comment
  44. …it contains a TODO explaining that the code is unnecessarily quadratic and needs to be fixed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/12b12ba17a380e321... So if selecting all matches requires calling this function for each match then I…
    comment by asQuirreL · 2024-02-19 · in Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms
  45. …github ticket about Zed being ported to Linux, the TLDR is... they're currently working on it. : https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015 It's a small set of contributors so expect that it will be a while.
    comment by jasode · 2024-02-18 · in Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms
  46. Here’s the commit: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/6700
    comment by tiffanyh · 2024-02-18 · in Zed Editor: All Occurrences Search from 1s to 4ms
  47. Looks like the Notebook request has been open for over a year. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5273 So according to the Lindy effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect , it'll be more than a year before we see anything.
    comment by briandw · 2024-02-17 · in We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
  48. …can join this discussion to talk further about a11y in Zed: Accessibility (a11y) in Zed [links to: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/1297 ] And that link is useless, it goes to a Github issue about back and forward buttons.…
    comment by Jtsummers · 2024-02-17 · in We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
  49. …being developed. Here's a PR from 2 days ago that shows file-opening in Linux starting to work: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/7852 And so far Linux support has been a big community effort. I think more community member…
    comment by misternugget · 2024-02-17 · in We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
  50. …Edit: huh- i read that but the Cargo.toml does like Linux- maybe early Edit 2: Looks in progress https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7015
    comment by jasonjmcghee · 2024-02-08 · in Loungy: An Application Launcher Written with GPUI, the Zed GPU UI Framework