Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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

What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app

Every single new HN thread should come with an automod post badmouthing Electron to save everyone time.

its a bad anti-pattern that trades developer convenience for performance, UX etc. Its fair to hate on it

With the advent of coding agents, I really hope we see devs move away - back to the traditional approach of using native frameworks/languages as now, you can write for 1 platform and easily task AI to handle other platforms.

Absolutely nothing new has been said about Electron since like 2015, it's boring as hell to downvote and scroll past.