I have tried zed multiple times and always uninstalled it after a few days because of the ugly font rendering, slow response time (!), high memory usage (!!) and being very buggy in general. And don't even get me started on their AI-first shenanigans.
This is on Linux, maybe it works better on other platforms.
If you're using Windows (+ WSL) then yes, there's a hunch of memory issues currently. Apart from Windows I've never issues though, especially seeing as how intellij indexing takes >1 min and hogs my memory during that period.
The only reason I'm not switching is because Zed's vim bindings are aaalmost perfect. I did not like Vim Mode in VSC or intellij IDE's since it's another keymap I have to learn next to my nvim setup
Maybe this is a vim thing? What do emacs and vscode users feel about zed?
Tried it, it was the worse experience I had with an editor since I started my career… then I tried it again because maybe they figured it out… it’s still bad.
It’s good. Launches from anywhere from cli with just ‘zed .’ (No logs and artifacts that hold up the terminal). Multiple instances without worry (unlike PyCharm I used before).
It’s good to the point I keep checking to see if there is a “pro” plan, but there isn’t. They just have AI subscriptions.
Debugging is good. I'd love to see integrated test runners.
I also wish the collaboration was more relevant and fleshed out, but no one I know uses it anyway.
I have opened at all times at least 3-4 medium sized front-end projects and at least one large python project and never had memory issues.
There have been recent changes to the font rendering, it now looks good on my 1440p monitor - when I first tried, it was blurry and instantly gave me a headache. It does seem strange to me that *font rendering* of all things is what a text editor has trouble with. Precise font rendering should be table stakes here.
As for performance/memory usage, it's been top-notch for me on both Linux and macOS.
I had originally switched to try and get away from Microsoft's "only focus on AI features" trend in VSCode, but it seems like Zed has fallen into the same trap.
The macOS version is where they've invested the most optimizations for sure. None of the issues you've described occur on there. Fwiw, I've been daily driving the editor on my mac for about a year with almost no complaints.
I can't believe the latency of browser based editor is acceptable to people
Very fast but not enough features to use on a daily basis.
And they lack some extensions I love in VSCode such as Markdown All In One and GitLens. They have a big battle against the large ecosystem of VSCode extensions.
And then there's JetBrains which is on another level of refactoring/features.
It is slow, it's missing features and it is buggy.