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The Zed Debugger Is Here

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502 points SupremumLimit | 5 comments | 19 Jun 25 02:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.829s | source
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eddythompson80 ◴[19 Jun 25 06:24 UTC] No.44315995[source]▶
Ever since Linux support came out (2 years ago?), I go to check if they, finally, support “non-retina” “LoDPi” (a.k.a: a regular screen) yet, and sadly no :/
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1. senko ◴[19 Jun 25 08:07 UTC] No.44316504[source]▶
Using it daily on my 1920x1200 laptop screen in Linux and works just fine.
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2. sapiogram ◴[19 Jun 25 09:12 UTC] No.44316819[source]▶
Are you using dark mode? To me, text looks absolutely awful in light mode, but okay in dark mode. Still noticeably worse than any other editors, though.
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3. gkbrk ◴[19 Jun 25 09:19 UTC] No.44316850[source]▶
Zed developers themselves acknowledge the blurry font issue [1], so either you just don't notice blurry fonts or 1920x1200 on a small laptop screen is HiDPI-enough to kinda hide the blurriness.

My desktop monitor is 1920x1080. On my computer and display; Vim, Emacs and VSCode are all able to render their fonts crisply while Zed is a blurry mess.

[1]: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

4. senko ◴[19 Jun 25 09:34 UTC] No.44316940[source]▶
This may be it.

I use it in dark mode and I am considerably less picky about font rendering than many people commenting on such threads.

Combined, while I can see a difference if I look closely, it doesn't bother me.

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5. eddythompson80 ◴[19 Jun 25 22:30 UTC] No.44323127{3}[source]▶
Lucky you. It's very blurry. For me I open any other text editor next to it and immediately realize where that headache was coming from.