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An AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombin
by jks 1y ago
An AI editor, a competitor to Cursor but written from scratch and not a VS Code fork. They recently announced a funding round from Sequoia. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961172
- athenot 1y agoEven without any AI stuff, it's a fantastic editor for its speed.
- azemetre 1y agoSomeone posted this in the other zed thread but it looks on par with VS Code in speed according to these results: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663 https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/112146684329230663
- nicce 1y agoDepends how you measure it. At least my battery lasts hour longer when using Zed and when comparing to VSCode. Also, the link is almost 1,5 years old.
- efilife 1y agoIt wasn't an AI editor for a long time
- fooqux 1y agoYup. Their big design goal seemed to just be "speed" for a majority of development. That's it.
- andrewmcwatters 1y agoI don't understand why people say X is a competitor to Cursor, which is built on Visual Studio Code, when GitHub Copilot came out first, and is... built on Visual Studio Code. It also didn't start out as a competitor to either.