I absolutely love the idea of Zed, and I'm regularly giving it a go. Typing in Zed really feels better than VSCode. It's hard to describe, but impossible to discard once you've used it for a short while.
Unfortunately, there's a bunch of small things still holding me back. Proper file drag & drop for one, the ability to listen to audio files inside the editor, and even a bunch of extensions, in particular one that shows a spectrogram for an audio file.
Maybe my biggest gripe is that Python support is still better in VSCode. Clicking on definitions is faster and more reliable.
In vscode you can click on various assets, like images or audio files, and then view them right inside vscode. If you work with datasets, the ability to inspect them is crucial.
Yes ofc I can use Finder instead but in vscode I just cmd+p.
The reason it's faster is largely because it doesn't have all those little quality of life features and extension ecosystem. It's easyish to make software perform well if it doesn't do all that much. If you take base vscode, no extensions, and just do raw text editing, it's hard for me to tell the difference between vscode, zed, or any other editor.
When vscode was released, Sublime was faster - and it stayed faster. But that wasn't enough to stop the rise of vscode.
Unfortunately, there's a bunch of small things still holding me back. Proper file drag & drop for one, the ability to listen to audio files inside the editor, and even a bunch of extensions, in particular one that shows a spectrogram for an audio file.
Maybe my biggest gripe is that Python support is still better in VSCode. Clicking on definitions is faster and more reliable.