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.
This will never happen and it's a bizarre, legacy fantasy, borne of a fixed imaginary ideal of what computing should
be. Programming will continue to move in the direction of ease-of-use and every time I see an out-of-topic reference to Electron in this forum I feel insane, like I'm fighting upstream. You will not see this - you will see more Electron apps, because that is the modern way of building cross-platform apps, and if you genuinely don't understand why that is I don't know how to explain it to you. You won't see another version of those because nobody is going to waste their time building cross-platform native apps
at a native layer to performatively impress posters on HN. You, and seemingly everybody else on HN, can continue to pretend that devex doesn't matter, but that's the difference I guess between caring about devex and shipping products.
It's not out of topic. We're discussing the Zed editor. Their whole marketing ploy is "we are not electron", "we are rust", "we are native", "we are not slow" alternative to VScode.
This is literally their whole distinguishing feature and people are switching because of it and just it.