Zed
12 recommend 2 criticize 10 moved to it 1 moved away
Why hackers recommend it
“I've also customized Zed's UI to optimize for reading and reviewing code”throw2ih020, 2026-07-10original comment ↗
“Zed + Terminal threads (love this!) + Remote machine”throwaway888abc, 2026-06-05original comment ↗
“We started using LLMs heavily at work this year and I switched from Vim to Zed to help with that.”vinc, 2026-05-26original comment ↗
“I've been very happy with Zed, and that was before it had as many features as it does now.”insane_dreamer, 2026-05-19original comment ↗
“I switched from VSCode to Zed, which has a helix mode built-in and it works very well.”16bitvoid, 2026-05-13original comment ↗
“it is faster for larger codebases and also have a interesting design”mathcartney, 2026-05-02original comment ↗
“I have been using zed since 2026 exclusively. I moved from JetBrains and am genuinely happy.”_badmike, 2026-04-29original comment ↗
“Congrats to the Zed team for building the best modern editor I have ever used.”giancarlostoro, 2026-04-29original comment ↗
“Yeah, I find Zed to be strictly the best experience for "I actually want a pleasant editor" experience.”staticassertion, 2026-02-13original comment ↗
“Very happy camper. So much faster. So much snappier.”KingOfCoders, 2026-02-13original comment ↗
“I also switched from VSCode to Zed”avanwyk, 2026-01-06original comment ↗
“But I love the thought put into Zed and it looks great (this is important to me).”tortilla, 2026-01-05original comment ↗
What hackers criticize
“The biggest problem I personally have with Zed design is it downloading it's own binaries for LSP servers instead of using ones already installed in the system.”mrsssnake, 2026-05-01original comment ↗
“but then put in the effort to learn Neovim (Lazyvim) properly”avanwyk, 2026-01-06original comment ↗
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- Zed → Neovim (1 hacker)
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- VS Code → Zed (5 hackers)
- Vim → Zed (2 hackers)
- JetBrains → Zed (1 hacker)
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