Positive Feedback ❤️

[JosephTLyons]

Everyone loves to read positive feedback; feel free to use this discussion as a place to jot down the things you enjoy about Zed. If you want to give permission to the Zed team to use your comment in promotional content (Zed Twitter, zed.dev, etc.), place a 🚀 reaction on your post.

[aadibajpai]

one thing that has really annoyed me in vs code or intellij is that accepting a code completion while the cursor is mid word will insert the whole suggestion there and ruin the whole idea of completion. To get a better idea of what I mean, see this:

Screen.Recording.2022-06-25.at.12.51.13.AM.mov

I love that zed is smarter and completes the word correctly.

[everdrone]

Maybe off topic but what did you use to record your screen?

[Markiewic]

To be fair, in IntelliJ you can press Tab instead of Enter, and then the word will be replaced, not inserted.

[d8vjork]

Maybe off topic but what did you use to record your screen?

Late off-topic reply: That video format is .mov so I'm I guess he was using the Cmd + Shift + 5 in MacOS (similar to Win + Alt + R but without screen cut options)

[Roba1993]

1. Most insane feature is the problem tab. When editing a failure in rust it changes the failure for all the same occurrences. This safes a lot of time and is super handy to work with.
2. The reformat of the code while saving is the most useful OOTB setting/feature I missed everywhere else

[Ornataweaver]

Hi dear Roba, I were born on 1993 as well. 😊
How can I access the problem tab?
Thank you.

[theherk]

@Ornataweaver The most simple way is ⌘ ⇧ M, but you can also run the command "Diagnostics: Deploy" or click on the ⊗ in the lower left.

[JosephTLyons]

I enjoy how responsive Zed is to every single keystroke - writing code and taking notes in Zed is ultra satisfying.

[gobijan]

Lovely. Feels really smooth. What font is it that you package with the editor? Looks awesome.

[l0go]

Lovely. Feels really smooth. What font is it that you package with the editor? Looks awesome.

Pretty sure it is a custom font called Zed Mono, it is basically just a custom configuration of Iosevka.

[Arinaska]

Looks better than losevka anyway.

[iamnbutler]

Lovely. Feels really smooth. What font is it that you package with the editor? Looks awesome.

I just made the zed-fonts repo public. You can grab them there.

Pretty sure it is a custom font called Zed Mono, it is basically just a custom configuration of Iosevka.

Correct! You can build your own variant of Iosevka here: https://typeof.net/Iosevka/customizer or by creating your own private-build-plans.toml.

[ghost]

Super great how you guys have opened up the issue list and are open to input and feedback! I can't wait for linux support and I can start using it. VScode and idea suite tools are memory hogs and extremely slow... can't wait for the responsiveness and light-weight experience that zed will deliver.

[fdionisi]

With Zed, writing code is an absolute pleasure. Its snappy interactions and lean UI help me focus on bringing ideas into reality. Having an editor that doesn't get in your way feels like having superpowers - it's like having a thin layer between my brain and the computer.

Discovering the journal was also mind-blowing; now, I have one reason less to move away from the editor, which massively helps battle context-switching.

I almost entirely switched from VSCode to Zed in the past few weeks. I can use Zed for everything, but I still rely on VSCode for a few nits:

• Terraform (and HCL) integration
• Deep git integration (i.e. GitLens)

[dandv]

I find the git UI in WebStorm far clearer than in VSCode, let alone Zed. Same for the debugger.

[lucastrvsn]

Even in the current state I'm really really REALLY happy using Zed. Everything is so lightweight and fast that I can't believe. I've turn the vim mode on and switch completely from neovim and VSCode. Thank you so much for this editor, I want to pay to use it!

[battisti]

Zed shows that performance does matter. Experiencing the responsiveness and low resource requirements is like realising how nice the silence is when somebody turns off the AC

[janxkoci]

Zed is the first editor with a serious chance of getting me off my SublimeText addiction 😅 and performance is the key reason! Atom had most of the features, but was way too slow to use for real. VSCodium was a touch better, but not enough to be considered for long - I got tired of it in less than a week.

While Sublime is still my main editor, Zed is improving rapidly and I will probably make it my default on one machine to keep a closer eye on its development.

[ijzerbroot]

Startup-speed and LSP's responsiveness are simply amazing and since I am a sucker for looks, I'd also like to give props for making it look and feel so polished already! (including the nice little touch with rounded selected area highlights). Love that it's not forcing me to open a "project" so I can just open random files.
Totally brilliant implementation of project-wide search with live-edit and a nice-and-fast (syntax-highlighted!) outline view. Truly sweet.

[Daeraxa]

The speed is honestly amazing. I don't really use macOS and the only machine I have is really rather slow (2014 vintage mac mini). Atom or VSCodium take sometimes >30s to load, Zed pops up in less than 5.

[rbetts]

Just getting started with Zed. First impressions are that my other editors are crazy slow :-). The outline is a killer feature (and also surprisingly fast). Thanks!

[spaceybit]

It's still early days using Zed for me, but I love it so much!! You've got a fan in me 🚀

Things I like already

1. I don't risk grinding my laptop to a halt like I do with PyCharm and VS Code
2. It's so fast!! Literally. So fast. This Github form is feeling so slow after using Zed for a while 😅

[lucastrvsn]

Another feedback from me: the new release fixing the input method for international keyboards is amazing. Working fine for me with US-International layout, thank you for this!

[emilyhunt]

I opened the editor, and Python support just worked. I run into so many weird issues and bugs with VS Code's Python, and it's really refreshing to be reminded in 2025 that code editors can be fast, stable, and have loads of features. Thank you! c:

[dugrema]

I tried a few AI editors over the last few months, my main IDEs have been PyCharm and RustRover for a several years. But Zed is definitely the one for me when it comes to AI assistants.

I use llamacpp with gpt-oss 20B. At first I was having severe issues with the edit_file (edit mode) tool where edits would just fail (did not change anything). But now I use these llamacpp parameters with gpt-oss 20B UD Q6_K_XL from unsloth: --temp 0.3 --top-k 20 --top-p 0.8 --min-p 0 --jinja and medium reasoning (low is lazy and just gives up, high over complicates the design and often does the wrong thing).

Tool usage just works great now with Zed and Goose.

[rabsef-bicrym]

Zed is a perfect fit glove for me. It's hard to describe exactly what works so well for me. The best I can do to explain is that I came from VS Code and will never go back. All of the ills of VS Code seem resolved here, w/ no feature loss that I care about.

[Fingel]

Zed has allowed me to live my best crappy laptop life. Let me explain.

I have a desktop at home on which I do most of my coding. Since I write mostly Rust these days, it helps that it's pretty beefy.

My laptop on the other hand... is a Thinkpad T470s. It's nearly 10 years old, has a whopping 4 cores and 16gb of RAM. However, it has amazing battery life (shout-out to replaceable batteries!) is light as a feather, and feels great to use. I love bringing it around because I don't really need to worry about it. I love it! But to put it bluntly, this thing suffers just running VSCode as it is, much less Rust Analyzer and cargo.

Zed is lightweight enough to run on this laptop with no issues. And the remote editing allows me to connect to my desktop and do all the heavy lifting there. I was previously using tmux + neovim, but the input latency wasn't the greatest experience. Zed now provides the killer combo (along with tailscale of course). Whatever eager editing + syncing Zed is doing makes this feel magical, like I'm sitting at home editing code on my Desktop even though I'm on a machine that can barely run Chrome.

Amazing, thank you Zed team! I'm looking forward to squeezing another decade of life out of this Thinkpad!

[hrgdavor]

Hi, I really love ZED editor, it is so fast and efficient, and I use it for meta projects(where I do stuff like utility scripts for some projects maintenance) and real(coding) projects.

I would like to apologize for snarky comment on topic of vertical tabs

I am subscribed to this issue, to revisit zed editor once it is implemented.

Zed is so good, I can manage without vertical tabs.

... Then I found shortcut for: "search all tabs" to jump between open files and I may not even need vertical tabs after all..

[nikaro]

I love this v0.219.4 release! So much improvements in it. Thank you everyone who contributed to it! ❤️

[charlesdwright]

I JUST discovered the file address bar at the top of the editor (just under the tabs) that lets me click on the file and see/click to the objects inside.

This is a major thingy for me; something I suggested a while ago which was probably right in front of me even while I did so.

Wish I had time to learn about all the other existing features that I wish were there.

[youvegotmoxie]

Thanks to the entire Zed team for building this amazing product. I never thought something would pull me away from the Vim/Neovim ecosystem but you all really nailed the out-of-the-box Vim motions and keybinds. In a matter of a few hours (with the help of your amazing documentation) I was able to configure Zed mostly on par with a Neovim setup I've been tweaking for years.

The application is beautiful and super performant. Well done!

PS, please consider shipping merch to all of the USA, not just the lower 48 ❤️

[youvegotmoxie]

Update: the merch arrived in AK!

[nelsonr]

Congratulations on the release of 1.0!

[fuzenco]

Yes indeed.

[EriecTanijaya]

I really like the snappy feeling, the almost dont need to setup the extension etc, because most of it already provided by zed, hears feedback and have awesome community! Thank you for all the team member and contributors! Congrats for the 1.0 release!!

[nicko-winner]

I've been a consistent WebStorm user for the past 10 years and have tried many other editors along the way. Zed’s excellent ACP support, fast edits, chat history, simple minimalist editor controls, built-in Git functionality including Git working trees, and solid WebStorm key-bindings out of the box made it easy for me to become productive right away. It’s been a month, and I haven’t missed any features yet. Way to be thoughtful about the development of this product.

[xpe]

I really like that Zed has done a nice job with Helix keybindings. Above and beyond!... also a sign the innards (love that word) are solid. Or... flexible. Whichever is better. :P

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. - Bruce Lee

[abramsci]

Zed is the 'sunrise' I believe so many were waiting after Atom 'sunset'

Philosophical discourse

Once upon a time there was a fresh and naive graduate student. At the time he had 10-year programming exposure but decided to pursue scientific discoveries. Early in his Ph.D. project he read about text editor named 'Atom' build on 'Electron' framework and was fascinated by the naming and underlying ideas overall. He started using this text editor and fell in love, because it was somehow clear that whoever made the tool - did it with passion and purpose.

Then, the magic of plugins grew even stronger!
Suddenly instead of running a bunch of bloated apps fighting for laptop limited resources, it was possible to do most of the research in a single well-designed workspace:

• reading a PDF article in the pane next to its BibTex citation;
• editing personal messy CUDA-kernels for data processing;
• launching self-developed C89 CLI-tools and Python 2.7 (with ugly pre-v3.x matplotlib) scripts;
• checking queue and sending jobs to SLURM via ssh;
• (CRUCIALLY) - writing Markdown notes and manuscript chapters in LaTeX.

It was truly lean general-purpose TEXT-editor, not just some fat IDE exclusive for fancy programming folk:)

Now it feels like a century ago - the workspace lived in harmony.
Then, everything changed when the fire ... Microsoft acquired GitHub...

The darkest hour is just before the sunrise

I heard about Zed about three years ago and didn't fully grasped WHO was behind the project (which was a huge mistake). In my postdoc environment I have to deal with Windows, so at that time I discarded the news about Zed development simply because of that. I had VS Copium for few years - mostly because forcing Vim on some of my less technical students would be a bit cruel IMAO. And with all AI-obsession in the recent months I was seriously thinking about moving to the countryside and installing TempleOS on my ancient laptop...

But then - about two months ago I decided to learn Rust via a practical little project. Then I realized that in these 3 years Zed moved so far and so well that I could install it both on my workplace PC and on my personal Steam Deck! Even cooler - I actually CAN BUILD it myself! It takes about 8-10 minutes (and ~15% of battery life) on the deck but then I really feel that it is optimized. I still didn't figured out why it compiles crates but hangs on linking phase at my workplace Windows machine but well - there is a scoop/winget way to just grab installer.

Now I'm at the point of basically tech-evangelistic recommending Zed to all my peers. And the point that got me so hooked is this first blog-post about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT). When I see the level of thinking and commitment to development this deep - I can be confident that Zed editor is here to stay. I'm quite certain that in a (half-) year - it would be 'go-to' choice of coding environment. What I like the most however, is this warm feeling of finally having an editor that respects and accommodates for a more diverse workflows than only programming.

A month ago I finished my first Rust crate (CLI tool) with LLM helping me learn the language syntax and concepts - but not write code for me since I wanted that muscle memory. It was such a pleasure to do so in Zed - I really seem to forget such feeling! Now I've dived into coding with the reignited passion because with Zed I can simply use local model to write some tests. There are so much noise about this and that "most sexy model of the week" but I don't have neither time nor credit card to care about this fuss:) For me it is perfectly fine to just have 'rubber duck' when drafting the architecture and later during implementation and both gemma4 and qwen3.6 has been working for me perfectly fine. But that's maybe just because I do a rather simple programming. However there are even more exciting pipelines I can imagine now related to scientific research and the craziest part that I can sense some of that original Atom DNA!

P.S. I see there are two more team members since 1.0 release - congratulations!!!
I myself hope to one day become someone who can contribute to Zed something worthy. Well, good thing is that except hope it seems to be possible to just start contributing right away:) So I figured - since I don't yet have Rust proficiency to tackle real issues - maybe sharing my experience in this general positive thread could at least give all a smile and a real example of how influential your work is!

[JosephTLyons]

Thank you for the wonderful story about your history with Atom and introduction / experience to Zed @abramsci. I'm going to share this with the team next week. ❤️

[mulderns]

Who ever restored the pixel perfect rendering for TerminusTTF, thank you! It's a life saver on 1080p displays.