Other pain points:
- Format on save by default: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/29395
- VSCode Debugger UX seams to be much better
My-Zed branch with both the features: https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/zed/tree/my-zed
X years later and VS Code is the one with the biggest ecosystem and therefore also has the largest and most complex addons.
Zed is starting from scratch again, relying on developers to create extensions. However, I'll argue that because Zed is Rust based instead of web tech based like Code, it'll be harder to get as big an ecosystem as Code has. Same with IDEs, some of the biggest plugins have corporate backers who pay people to develop and maintain them.
I've grown attached to the git diff view, so I use it for reviewing PRs mostly (especially larger ones as github UI has been struggling with them as of late).
The rest of my code is written in Vim or by Claude.
It uses the Jupytext format [1], for Python at least. Which frankly, is much more friendly to VCS than notebooks.
I agree on the 'format on save' as undesirable default, but disabling that was as easy as flicking a switch.
[0]: https://zed.dev/docs/repl [1]: https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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 productive on my code instead of messing with my editor. I use both at the same time because Zed feels so much nicer, but so far, VSCode's features are quite a bit head.