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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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677 points meetpateltech | 6 comments | 03 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source | bottom
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extr ◴[03 Sep 25 15:57 UTC] No.45117263[source]▶
Zed is so great, I do wish they would focus just a little bit more on bringing the UI just a bit more up to parity with VS Code, I would switch full time.
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sirodoht ◴[03 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45117325[source]▶
What do you feel is missing from the UI?
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tmdh ◴[03 Sep 25 16:06 UTC] No.45117370[source]▶
I feel like the UI is not as smooth as VSCode. There is a slight lag when scrolling.
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1. Longhanks ◴[03 Sep 25 16:11 UTC] No.45117436[source]▶
Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust?

...and now they lose to a web app?

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2. seanssel ◴[03 Sep 25 16:13 UTC] No.45117487[source]▶
I have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe they're used to a smooth scroll animation in VS Code or something? Zed feels snappier/lighter in just about every way to me.
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3. sayrer ◴[03 Sep 25 16:16 UTC] No.45117524[source]▶
No kidding. It is /so/ fast. It has remote development like VS Code, and most of the features I use, so it's my main thing now. Claude Code was the only thing that made me wince, since I wondered if I was living in the dark ages. VS Code of course has many more extensions, but I don't use that many.
4. sapiogram ◴[03 Sep 25 16:16 UTC] No.45117533[source]▶
There's a reason everyone writes their GUI apps in Electron nowadays. Browser have spent 30 years figuring out fast rendering, it's hard to beat that, even with native code.
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