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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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677 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 1.105s | source
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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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sapiogram ◴[03 Sep 25 16:12 UTC] No.45117454[source]▶
Their font rendering looks awful on non-high dpi displays, and the devs don't seem to care at all. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992
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delta_p_delta_x ◴[03 Sep 25 16:28 UTC] No.45117671[source]▶
My guess: their shaders or text rendering don't account for sub-pixel anti-aliasing, which is critical to getting decent text rendering on low pixel density displays.

If they'd used Skia (which is what Electron and Chromium use), they would've got this for free. Instead they tried to reinvent the world and didn't realise how big the world was.

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AlexandrB ◴[03 Sep 25 18:24 UTC] No.45118939[source]▶
I love how we just reinvent the wheel again, and again, and again, and again...

MacOS native apps have had great sub-pixel rendering all along, but I guess since we have to develop everything in Electron now it's time to reimplement all the exiting functionality.

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1. c-hendricks ◴[03 Sep 25 19:11 UTC] No.45119423[source]▶
- As mentioned, macOS removed subpixel anti aliasing a while ago

- Zed is not an electron app

- In the linked issue you can see that this issue does not exist in Electron.