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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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677 points meetpateltech | 4 comments | 03 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ppeetteerr ◴[03 Sep 25 17:35 UTC] No.45118464[source]▶
I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with...

One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more accurate in Cursor).

I am glad to hear that Zed got a round of funding. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed This will go a long way to creating real competition to Cursor in the form of a quality IDE not built on VSCode

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cnqso ◴[03 Sep 25 18:09 UTC] No.45118799[source]▶
What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
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1. shreddit ◴[03 Sep 25 18:15 UTC] No.45118850[source]▶
Does it really? At the end of the day i need it to do my job. Ideal values don’t help me doing my job. So i choose the editor best suited and the features i need. And that’s not zed at the moment.
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2. mikepurvis ◴[03 Sep 25 18:31 UTC] No.45118997[source]▶
There's an analogue here with programming language iteration— Python, Ruby and friends showed what the semantics were that were needed, and then a decade or two later, Go and Rust took those semantics and put them in compiled, performance-oriented languages.

Electron has been a powerful tool for quickly iterating UIs and plugin architectures in VSCode, Brackets, Atom, etc, now the window is open for a modern editor to deliver that experience without the massive memory footprint and UI stalls.

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4. ics ◴[03 Sep 25 19:17 UTC] No.45119472[source]▶
I agree with the main point but I am on battery often and the difference between native vs. one or multiple Electron apps in "doing my job" is easily several hours lost to battery life or interruptions for charging. Not a huge deal, but it's not my ideals that make me frown at charge cycles occurring twice as often.