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The Creators of the Atom Code Editor Open-Source Zed, Their New Rust-Based High-Performance Editor (www.infoq.com)

submitted 6 months ago by LinearArray@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can code in Notepad in the same way you can eat off the floor with your hands. Using better tools is a nicer experience.

As for performance, when one of the world's most popular editor runs on Electron, it's not that hard to see why performance could be an issue when working on large projects on older hardware.
I've never personally had an issue with VSCode's performance, but I'm also fortunate enough to be in a position where I can afford a relatively modern machine. Many others have to make do with what they have, which is why Zed might appeal to them.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, I rock JetBrains for a lot of stuff. It's a pig on resources, but man does it have a great feature set.

[–] azertyfun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Electron has other drawbacks than performance as well.

The big one for me is that my workflow is based on vim, where you split tabs into buffers. There is no way to split a tab into windows in VSCode. Only windows into tabs, which is super dumb and annoying because related files are never shown together unless you click a bunch of tabs. Apparently the reasoning for this insane behavior is "yeah well electron is based on chromium so tough luck we can't do shit".

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

What do you mean by:

There is no way to split a tab into windows in VSCode.

Do you mean, drag a tab out of a window to create a new window? Because if so, you can do that in vscode.