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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: 0s | 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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freehorse ◴[03 Sep 25 17:49 UTC] No.45118602[source]▶
While I do not doubt that there are people who experience this on some monitor/OS combinations, I have used zed on basic 1080p and 1440p 24" monitors with no issue. Sometimes I have general issues with some monitors in macos, which is usually due to some super-resolution/sharpness setting on the monitor itself that I need to adjust, but nothing specific to zed. All I say is that these issues are far from universal with non-hidpi monitors.
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EnPissant ◴[03 Sep 25 18:58 UTC] No.45119269[source]▶
You may not notice because macOS fonts look terrible (blurry) on any monitor that is not hidpi. Zed is just par for the course here.

Meanwhile on Linux and Windows, they still implement subpixel rendering so fonts look great on 1440p.

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ricardobeat ◴[03 Sep 25 19:20 UTC] No.45119504[source]▶
This discussion goes back twenty years, with Apple going for preserving the original typeface appearance over crispness. It depends what you value the most and is entirely subjective.
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1. EnPissant ◴[03 Sep 25 19:28 UTC] No.45119562[source]▶
There are 2 issues on Apple:

1) How much font hinting to apply. More hinting changes the shape to make glyphs line up better with pixels so that less antialiasing is required. macOS prefers very light hinting to preserve shapes at the cost of blurriness. This is what you are talking about.

2) Subpixel rendering. This effectively triples the horizontal resolution when rendering fonts, and does not affect the shape at all. Fonts look dramatically better on normal dpi displays when using it. macOS removed support for this many years ago. This is what I'm talking about.