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Zed has built in REPL for several languages, which does have image preview [0]

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/

Unfortunately, Jupyter notebooks can do a lot more than images. You can 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 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.

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