Zed 1.0 - Hacker News

Posted by salkahfi 1 day ago

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ethin 1 day ago|

This editor sounds awesome, but it's sad they didn't make the UI accessible.

_badmike 20 hours ago||

Congrats on the launch. I have been using zed since 2026 exclusively. I moved from JetBrains and am genuinely happy. Missing the compare with clipboard though.

dev_l1x_be 23 hours ago||

Zed is the only editor I use on a daily basis and VIM. It is fast and renders nicely. I do not need to configure it much, few extra plugins but most of the things are working out of the box.

evilmonkey19 1 day ago||

Congrats to the Zed team! I really like your editor and it works surprisingly well, althought there are a few rough edges still with the python experience.

The debugger in Python FastAPI and mainly Django is not working as expected. Hopefully soon will be fixed.

shdh 8 hours ago||

The best thing about Zed is GPUI

fishgoesblub 1 day ago||

1.0 and still has the wrong colours when ran in Wayland and lacks bitmap font support.

sevenseacat 5 hours ago||

The colour issue also affects MacOS - every time I open VSCode it strikes me just how more vibrant the exact same colours are, rendering there.

toggio 1 day ago||

> 1.0 doesn't mean "done". It also doesn't mean "perfect"

Create issue in the Zed Github repository?

fishgoesblub 1 day ago||

Don't need to create an issue, both have had issues for them for 2 years.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/9057 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12629

swiftcoder 1 day ago||

Sort of a recurring theme, I find. They have 600+ issues that have been open for over a year, was hoping they'd drive down the backlog a bit before declaring victory

wldcordeiro 1 day ago||

Go look at any large project, they have 500+/1000+ issues and many are ancient. Chrome, Firefox, you name it. I wouldn't be surprised if many issues have even been solved or need new reproduction steps but there's a difficulty to triaging all the issues as well.

swiftcoder 4 hours ago||

> I wouldn't be surprised if many issues have even been solved or need new reproduction steps

All the ones I'm subscribed to are straight-up feature gaps versus competing IDEs. Though of course, there is significant selection bias to my subscriptions

wldcordeiro 2 hours ago||

Yeah I can see that. I probably wouldn't be subscribing to issues that weren't feature requests/gaps very often. Ones that are tied to bugs are the only others that come to mind that I'd subscribe to but just thinking about my own dev experience in various jobs and how even there our internal backlogs of issues would have unclosed, out of date stuff, I think some portion of issues in public projects would be too.

mfontani 1 day ago||

Why does signing up through Github require the "act on behalf" permission?

That seems risky.

__rito__ 23 hours ago||

It has replaced VS Code for my for my work and side projects.

I don't use AI tools in 90% of the projects.

It's snappy, fast, everything just works. I have the vim mode turned on while editing.

aranw 1 day ago||

I really like Zed but it's most recent big changes to Git integration and Parallel Agents has forced me to disable both of those features as the way they work just didn't suit me and my workflow

daniel_grady 1 day ago|

Congratulations to the Zed team! What a great project.

The newer layout that came along with the parallel agents feature is very nice; even without using parallel agents regularly, this is a breath of fresh air.

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