Zed is not a fully-fledged IDE at the time of writing this article, it is still in beta, and this article is an early preview of what it has to offer at this stage. Realistically, at the time, you…

Roberto Umbelino

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Zed is a new, open-source IDE that is faster than Sublime Text and provides powerful features out of the box. It is currently in beta and supports Mac devices, with support for Windows and Linux coming soon. Zed aims to compete with VSCode as the king of code editors.

Reviewing Zed: An IDE of the Future

In Short, the development of the Linux and Windows version has been months now, so no, personally i don’t think it’s the IDE of the future.

i can describe Zed IDE in one word “StillBorn”

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VSCode is almost perfect, but it has a crucial issue: it is slow.
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VsCode is slow??? Have you tried eclipse?

This is more of a VSCode clone, I think it’s a bit much to say that it’s a vscode killer. perhaps one more option to develop, faster and open source…
Who knows, maybe in the future there will be more resources… but here comes the double-edged sword, the more things, the less fast it becomes.

If I wouldn’t be to lazy to learn vim motions, I would probably use Neovim.