why do people like Zed?

it feels like using a computer without internet

Zed is starting to come online. They are shipping good stuff.

- AI Tab completion, powered by Zeta (their in house language model)
- Native git support
- Tasks - think templates to run terminal commands

I'm starting to see the primitives comes together. Competing with VS Code is not easy- and they're essentially rebuilding it all from scratch, outside the stranglehold of Microsoft.

And, they're building in public, using zed to build zed. They will soon be shipping:

- Agentic Editing https://zed.dev/ai/agent?x=50
- Support for Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Continued improvements to Zeta
- Debugger

𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 • building @buoy 🛟 • skeet.build • pfista.com

They need prioritise real editor features than bs ai crap. Debuggers, full git rebase and merge conflict managing.

They added git recently, and they have a debugger on the roadmap. I think they'll get there, they just need a bit more time to cook.

Then other editors like Cursor will have a hard time catching up.