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Posted by ahamez 1 hour ago

Zed DeltaDB(zed.dev)
153 points | 61 comments
yza 34 minutes ago|
Why develop this when the core editor is almost unusable? On Linux wayland, copypaste is broken, the file manager is laggy and snippets do not trigger before the heavy hint logic is done. This is just on top of my head, the list is long
JaggedJax 10 minutes ago||
I had to stop using Zed because of this issue (which persists despite being closed): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/38109

I can't use an editor where the file contents I'm being shown don't match the reality of the file. I guess this issue doesn't affect most people somehow, but in the age of CLI agents I'm not sure how more people aren't running into it.

I was really enjoying Zed for a short while before I ran into this fundamental issue.

mosburger 28 minutes ago|||
I use it as a daily driver with few if any problems, but I'm on macOS. Maybe their Linux support is particularly crappy?
f311a 13 minutes ago||
There are a lot of subtle bugs. I'm on macOS too, but perhaps my workflow is unusual? Every time I open it, I find small bugs. There are so many features that it's hard to maintain them, I guess.

For example, a lot of disable buttons do not actually disable stuff. They just hide it from the UI.

minraws 20 minutes ago|||
Just installed it, works on my kde and niri setups (I logged out and switched to each), copy paste works as well. File manager laggi-ness I didn't notice I don't use it, I use it mostly to type stuff out.

I have never used snippets so unsure about that too, going from command bar seemed to work.

I think it might be bad, but could also be it's not correctly configured maybe try asking codex/claude or something to check if it can fix/fine tune the config, if that doesn't work file issues?

I do suspect it might be working for me cause I got lucky I do see an open issue[1], but given Zed is used a bunch the lack of comments does suggest maybe it's not that wide spread either way not a good look.

[1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/47004

Maybe I got lucky?? Does it not auto update on linux maybe I am on an old build... Very suspicious.

dylanz 28 minutes ago|||
I started using Zed a couple weeks ago and immediately had issues with copy/paste/buffer on an M1 Mac. I tried a few suggested fixes and they didn't work.
Daunk 25 minutes ago|||
It still doesn't actually display a window my end until I press a keyboard key or move the mouse. So very often I sit and wait for it to open, only to realize I have to press a random key for it to unhide.

Terrible Linux support.

Petersipoi 28 minutes ago|||
> when the core editor is almost unusable

Shit, as someone who uses Zed everyday, I didn't realize what I am using is unusable.

Pavilion2095 30 minutes ago||
Because it's not broken, the issues you're describing are far from universal. Also, fixing them won't bring any money.
NoDodgeQuestion 1 hour ago||
Zed should focus on basics. When it focuses on basics Zed is good.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 failing to show newly created files and declining to provide a refresh button, instead adding a polling backend, breaks Zed on WSL.

Why a new version control system? Why not git, jj, or another existing system?

ibejoeb 34 minutes ago||
I agree with you that I wish they'd just nail the editor. I've been using it for years now and I really like it, but there are a few rough parts (settings and LSPs especially) that could probably be tuned up in no time if the focus was there.

Having said that, I love the idea of correlating the agent sessions to the changes. I'm glad someone is working on it.

manmal 55 minutes ago|||
Their ACP integration is good (finally), at least with Codex. For when I want to be near the code, I prefer it now over TUIs or the Codex app. It feels much more immediate that way. Sticking to the basics will kill them IMO. They have been pitching themselves as agent-native for a while btw.

And the workflow they are describing in the post sounds amazing, I‘ve been wishing for that. It‘s orthogonal to CVS, no? You can still make PRs. But, crucially, you can loop people in early on, when it matters the most.

latchkey 35 minutes ago||
> Their ACP integration is good (finally), at least with Codex.

you must not use it much. try pasting in an image, quitting zed and restarting (ie: upgrading the app). it shows you the base64 encoded data instead of just showing the image. heck, it doesn't even show you the image when you paste it in. it just shows the filename.

manmal 22 minutes ago||
I use it constantly but haven’t felt the need to paste an image yet. I guess I‘m using pi and the Codex app more for that.
latchkey 15 minutes ago||
sorry, i didn't mean a quantity of time, i meant depth of usage.
alfalfasprout 36 minutes ago||
Did you even read the post? The idea is to tie conversations to code. This is a more sophisticated version of something like doltdb, not a git replacement.
docheinestages 1 hour ago||
Sounds like a side-effect of being VC-backed. Like what the ex GitHub CEO went on to build (Entire). Unnecessary.
pknopf 1 hour ago||
A non-existent problem that nobody asked to solve...
lightbendover 10 minutes ago|
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lrae 12 minutes ago||
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492533 (June 11th, 225 comments)

Is it available now? Still seems to be a waitlist?

smy20011 16 minutes ago||
You can simulate this by having a jj repo with file system watches.
tetris11 20 minutes ago||
I had the great pleasure/misfortune of being forced to work with LaminDB, and I can tell you folks; data provenance isn't going away -- it will be used to train the very AI models snapping at our heels
g42gregory 1 hour ago||
Looks like a great feature/product/functionality. I hope that Zed editor will make it work with LLMs/agents that run in the terminal, not just the Zen Agent itself. Is it even possible? I use OMP.sh agent running in Zed terminal.
randomblock1 1 hour ago||
It supports anything with ACP. So it can actually run Codex and Claude Code, not just the Zed Agent.

Looks like omp supports ACP, so all you have to do is specify a Custom Agent in Zed and it should just work.

https://omp.sh/docs/acp

https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents

ok_dad 1 hour ago||
This is the killer Zed feature, IMO, that they support almost any agent via extensions. I deleted Cursor but still use the agent via Zed because it’s a lot nicer experience, Zed never had popups telling me Grok is half off. I also use OpenRouter and Zed.dev with it, that’s three providers out of dozens that it supports.
vehemenz 1 hour ago||
Exactly. The more competitive the space is, the more important it is that products purposefully support 3rd-party providers. Now that people are increasingly switching from Anthropic/OpenAI for inference reseellers and on-prem compute, transparency and portability will be the new values, not being slightly better than the next agent or model.
joemccall86 1 hour ago||
I use this every day — https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads
CharlesW 20 minutes ago|
So is this basically Beads + Dolt? This isn’t to diminish it, it’d be great if this ends up being a less “vibe code-y” alternative to those.
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