Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products).

I just hope I'm wrong about the medium term impact of the VC funding but rushing AI AI AI out seems to be a sign of that rather than fixing fundamental issues that remain such as the ugly font rendering.

Zed being OS is 100% what's keeping me from moving away. If anything happens you just fork it and accept it as-is

Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpulled.

VS Code is also open source but a lot of Microsoft's extensions for it are closed source. I hope Zed won't go the same path.

You basically have to choose from

- Zed: VC funded open source

- Sublime Text: indie closed source

None is ideal, but I guess we all know why.