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The Zed Debugger Is Here

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502 points SupremumLimit | 1 comments | 19 Jun 25 02:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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mort96 ◴[19 Jun 25 08:23 UTC] No.44316578[source]▶
I was interested in Zed, but lost all interest when they started integrating "AI". I'm tired of "AI" everywhere.

I'll just stick with Neovim until something better comes around. Which probably won't happen until after the "AI" bubble bursts.

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1. mort96 ◴[19 Jun 25 12:26 UTC] No.44317999[source]▶
To be honest, I'm happy with running neovim in a terminal emulator so I'm not that far away from just wanting tools that "do nothing new". But there have been monumental changes in my time as a programmer that I've liked: language servers have been huge and are an essential part of my programming experience now, as one example.

But I think you're under-estimating the value of just being a really good version of something that already exists. There was a potential path where Zed would've been more or less something like VSCode, but actually open source, with less jank, with a smaller footprint and better performance, with excellent out-of-the-box support for a selection of programming languages without needing extensions. That, to me, would have been revolutionary, not because it would've had a list of features that's larger than other offerings, but because it would've done everything better than existing software.

Besides, it's not like "AI" is some new thing that nobody has done before. Every single new text editor that's coming out seems to be selling itself as "AI-powered". Zed is now a follower in that crowded space.