My first impressions of Zed after a spending a few years using Emacs and a short stint with Cursor.

Thanks to Zed for sponsoring! https://zed.dev/

Keyboard: Glove80 - https://bit.ly/3EKyn7X
Camera: Canon EOS R8 https://amzn.to/4gSpivt
Monitor: Dell U4914DW 49in https://amzn.to/3MJV1jx
Microphone: Sennheiser 416 https://amzn.to/3Fkti60
Microphone Interface: Focusrite Clarett+ 2Pre https://amzn.to/3J5dy7S
Tripod: JOBY GorillaPod 5K https://amzn.to/3JaPxMA
Mouse: Razer DeathAdder https://amzn.to/3J9fYCf
Computer: 2021 Macbook Pro https://amzn.to/3J7FXtW
Lens: Canon RF50mm F 1.2L USM https://amzn.to/3qeJrX6
Caffeine: High Brew Cold Brew Coffee https://amzn.to/3hXyx0q
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Building A Second Brain book: https://amzn.to/3cIShWf

Code to the Moon

A hands-on review of Zed IDE exploring its performance advantages, AI coding capabilities, and unique approach to agentic development. The editor is built in Rust for speed and memory efficiency, supports Vim motions, and implements the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) for integration with external coding agents like Claude Code and OpenCode. Key features include 120fps rendering, real-time collaboration tools, and flexible AI provider options including local inference with Ollama. The review compares Zed's architecture to Electron-based editors like VS Code and Cursor, noting the performance trade-offs and discussing the $10/month Zed Pro subscription value proposition.

Zed the IDE (Yes, I tried Cursor & Antigravity)

tech lead here. Now that you know I’m important please take my opinion super serious.

I really like this project a lot and I’d love to try it out thoroughly. The only reason I can’t do that right now is that they haven’t implemented devcontainers yet, which are essential for my development workflow.

tech lead here. It’s the only IDE that gets me all features I need at half way sublime text kinda speeds that’s still maintained.

Can we turn off the collaboration feature completely? i do not like them in my IDE
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