The technology is nothing alike though. Atom is Electron and Javascript where Zed is Rust with its own custom UI toolkit.

And on the current version of Pulsar (the only real community fork of Atom seeing active development), startup time to point of the editor being usable is actually slightly faster than VSCode.

I think this editor is supposed to be super fast because of their GPU or whatever libraries. It's also supposed to be written in Rust.

So far there's no extensions and just on Mac. Maybe when those open up I'll take a closer look.

Fuck vs code, jetbrains all the way!

I have a full JetBrains sub paid out for five years. I have dropped JetBrains for VS Code because I got tired of switching editors for everything and dealing with a Java-centric setup when I tried to streamline. Their decision to drop community Rust support in favor of only paid more recently also doesn’t sit well with me, especially given the PyCharm setup.

I swore up and down I would never leave Sublime for JetBrains.

The right tool for the right job. I use both, depending on what task I have.

This goes for most things in tech - there's no one best language, there's only really a best language for any given job.

To be fair, there's a big difference.

VS Code is a text editor / IDE. Compared to something like Notepad++, it's super slow to open/load, it's UI feels laggy at times, and it's just overkill for opening a text file. Compared to specialized log viewers, it struggles with large files and is generally super slow.
But compared to "full" IDEs like IntelliJ, it's marginal in coding features, lacking important analysis and testing support, plus integrations with ~everything.

If you find yourself in the middle, like many JS developers do, not actually needing the biggest IDE but also needing more than just a text editor, it's a fine tool. As a Java Backend Dev, VS Code feels like a joke if applied to that, OTOH.

Everyone I know in Europe uses either Visual Studio or vscode.

I'm in Europe and VS Code is very popular, JetBrains stuff is around too tho. Both are bloated but VS Code is still way lighter.

Its just the swiss army knife of the editor world.

My hopes for a vscode replacement are on lapce.

Latin American. When VSCode was first released, immediately jumped from Atom. Never locked back.

For jvm stuff definitley yes. For other things I often prefer VS Code.

They are tracking support for other OSes, and I took a look at the Linux roadmap, and they've made some good headway from the last time I looked. I would use it for its UI performance. I don't like how everything these days use Electron. It also supports Language Server Protocol, so adding extensions for languages should be fairly simple for the community to do. The multiple collaboration seems cool too, although I think most devs would seldom use it.

Based on their FAQ, they are not shooting for widespread adoption yet. Extension support and multi-platform appears to be on the roadmap.

Fwiw, I like a lot of the ideas behind the editor, and long-term I might consider it a viable option for some of my work.

They're planning Linux support

The media coverage for this, half backed suplime clone, is just weird.

With the power of circlejerk

No kidding. One of the YouTubers I followed was really shilling Zed editor. He didn't seem to mention that it was Mac only.

Well, I guess it's back to neovim on kiTTY terminal for me.

Sometimes I swear Mac based developers think the world revolves around them.

They can implement lsp support, sshfs, and it already has multiple themes which would work for me after it gets ported to linux

And it has no name in this meme 👍

Only if they actually port it which is what they claim they will do but until then not at all