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!

[istiuak-0]

I use it for performance, and it's lighter than VS Code, and its memory usage is better than VS Code. And I don't have to deal with Copilot crap.

[Fingel]

The font rendering on Linux just got SO MUCH BETTER! Thank you! It looks amazing, my eyes are so grateful.

[bulletmark]

The font rendering on Linux just got SO MUCH BETTER! Thank you! It looks amazing, my eyes are so grateful.

I was excited to read your comment so rushed to update my Zed preview (to 0.208.3) but don't see any difference? Font rendering still looks bad, e.g. nowhere near as good as VS Code. What am I missing?

[Fingel]

I have no idea, but the release notes for 207.3 do mention Linux font rendering: https://zed.dev/releases/stable/0.207.3

[LimingFang]

I used to use emacs/clion for c++ programming but recently i change to zed, it's very nice, i like the vim mode && tree-sitter and other feat as well.👍🏻

[sandhawalia]

Thanks for the great work Zed team. Its a pleasure to use your product everyday (sparks joy). The remote projects functionality was a standout release for me, comes handy for the AI/Robotics server heavy workflows.

[Whitfrost21]

I’m really enjoying Zed — it’s an awesome code editor with smooth AI integrations and Agent support.

The one area I’ve noticed could use some improvement is Git interaction. It works, but sometimes it doesn’t feel fully accurate or intuitive (for example, staging, commit previews, or handling multiple branches).

Overall, it’s a fantastic tool, but I’m curious if others feel the same or have tips for improving Git workflow in Zed.

[georgeamccarthy]

Zed is awesome!

[ValentinM27]

Fantastic job by the whole team, Zed is such a nice editor.

Been using it as my main editor for several month now, the simplicity of the UI yet with all the ensentials features. A complete experience, easy to configure and use !

[brandonchinn178]

I love that Zed has Sublime Text keymappings provided out of the box. I could never get into VSCode because it doesn't have all the Sublime Text actions I like. Plus, much snappier than I've experienced with VSCode! Started using it yesterday, have high hopes for continued use

[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.