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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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677 points meetpateltech | 2 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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1. freehorse ◴[04 Sep 25 06:26 UTC] No.45124185{3}[source]▶
As I said, I do notice when it is blurry, and in such a case it is a problem with anything that is rendered on that monitor not just zed. As I said, this does not happen "on any monitor" that is not hidpi. I use multiple operating systems on my day to day work, so I am not as brainwashed by apple as to not notice when such rendering issues arise.

I know some people have bad experiences with 1440p and macos for some reason, but I haven't had any such experience that I could not fix. So all these are not universal. Some people act as if any monitor below 200dpi will look terrible on macsos. This is definitely not the case.

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2. EnPissant ◴[04 Sep 25 09:06 UTC] No.45125186[source]▶
Other operating systems have three times the horizontal resolution when rendering fonts. It’s simply not possible to fix it on macOS because they removed subpixel rendering. It’s absolutely true that macOS fonts look substantially more blurry than fonts on other operating systems that implement subpixel rendering when you’re using a 1440p monitor.