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After using Neovim as my daily driver for 2+ years, I might be switching to Zed from here on out 👀

Ask me anything

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Neovim enjoyer, "a gift to the culture" | Building at /thirdweb

I really hope they figure out another monetization method or something because ain’t nobody gonna use that shit lol

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This is such a good question 🔥I’ve actually given VS Code a chance not too long ago, and I think the primary difference between it and Zed is 1. Bloat and 2. Vim mode. VS Code is electron so it’s never going to get that efficient or fast, but on top of that it feels like there’s so much extra stuff in the view. I even took the time to get rid a lot of the UI through various settings, but even then it just felt off. Zed is so much more lightweight, with a lot of features you might need built in which is awesome, including a vim mode. With VSCode you have to install a third party extension for vim key bindings and it’s ok, but no where near as good as zed. That has made the transition pretty smooth imo, most of the movements and patterns I followed in neovim just work out of the box in zed. 

Neovim is special in that it has a massive ecosystem and is way more configurable, but at the cost of time to configure it, possible breaking changes, and easy to muck up.

Where does VS Code fall in this comparison for you (speed, defaults, extensibility, etc) vs Zed and maybe Neovim?

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I do sorta miss some plugins like Telescope or Harpoon, but tbh that’s probably it? 😬 I think the transition has been smooth simply because I don’t use that many plugins in the first place. What is nice is that the build in vim mode is excellent; a lot of core neovim functionality is accessible from the get-go. 

LSP support is decent. Easy to configure (way easier than neovim) however at a cost; they’re all built in vs the ability to pull whatever you want. However there are already lots of community plugins to add lsp and syntax highlighting for stuff like Astro or Solidity that might be on the outskirts. Other than that it configures extremely easily. All one big json file so not as nice as lua but gets the job done. 

Its most appealing feature to me is speed. It just runs so much better than neovim via alacritty which is already gpu accelerated I believe.

Anyth functionality/plugins youre missing from neovim? How's the lsp support / ease of configuring it?

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Heheh thanks!!🙏🏻 

Essentially a tool or piece of equipment you would use every day or every time for said job. For you that might be obsidian when it comes to writing :)

lol what does it mean to have a daily driver? 

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Primary speed. Have been working in larger code bases and neovim was struggling :/ Thankfully Zed has some great vim support for key maps and customization, transition has been pretty smooth

Was there a specific feature that convinced you to switch completely?

Nice!! Maybe try ⌘ + Alt + I? (I as in India)

I just tried it out, looks great, copilot is here, pretty similar to vs code, it's fast and fancy, but the only thing i can't find it's debugging tool or just running the golang app

Is it possible to integrate github copilot there? 👀