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Compared to Sublime Text: RAM: 213 MB Zed 41 MB ST Storage: 406 MB Zed 52 MB ST Startup time: Zed is slower than ST (but only by a few milliseconds). A
by bdhtu 11mo ago
Compared to Sublime Text:
RAM:
213 MB Zed
41 MB ST
Storage:
406 MB Zed
52 MB ST
Startup time:
Zed is slower than ST (but only by a few milliseconds).
Also when you reopen ST it will remember how you've resized the window from last time whereas Zed won't.
- andrewl-hn 11mo agoProbably it helps that Sublime doesn't come with an AI agentic features, LSP, and a whole video-conferncing and screen-sharing client by default.
- CaptainOfCoit 11mo ago> and a whole video-conferncing and screen-sharing client by default Haha wait what? Are you confusing Zed (the text editor) with something else? Surely it doesn't ship with video conferencing???
- ahuth 11mo agoProbably referring to the collaboration tools. Zed has a bunch of stuff around remote pair programming with people.
- resonious 11mo agoI haven't seen video but it does have voice. And similarly I don't think it's screen-share, it's just editor state syncing, so live collaboration. Still quite a lot.
- joefitzgerald 11mo agoThere is a feature that lets you share your screen. It shows up for other participants in the collaboration session as a tab in the editor.
- trenchpilgrim 11mo agoIt has a voice chat system built in as part if the collaboration tools. Personally I think they should remove the voice chat...
- markus_zhang 11mo agoST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE. I wish there were something like VSCode that is very modular but written in native. But VSCode is good enough and it is my daily driver.
- pjmlp 11mo agoFor those on Windows, which is the topic at hand, UltraEdit and Notepad++. I disagree Zed is an IDE, it is quite far from InteliJ, Borland/Embarcadero, VS, XCode, Eclipse, Netbeans... If it is about adding enough plugins until it eventually becomes one, then any programmer's editor is an IDE.
- trenchpilgrim 11mo agoMy line is - if I can compile, run and debug my program through the editor UI instead of a terminal, it's an IDE.
- pjmlp 11mo agoAs I said, then any programmer editor is an IDE, including UltraEdit and Notepad++.
- trenchpilgrim 11mo agoNotepad++ has a debugger UI? One that goes beyond running a terminal inside a pane?
- pjmlp 11mo agoIt has plugins....and about 30 years of ecosystem history. Try to use Zed to debug Go code.
- trenchpilgrim 11mo agoI'm literally doing that right now. I can set breakpoints and graphically step through them in Go files.
- wseqyrku 11mo agoNo, that doesn't matter. I think you should be looking for how quickly it can get you a working environment for your favorite language not how long it takes to boot up once per reboot. If you want features the bits have to live somewhere. Look at it like a trade off, if you're just going to look at it, by all means, take a memory dump. But I find that a little bit hard to work with. For me, as long as it's better than alternatives it's good enough. Especially if it's not running JS.
- niutech 11mo agoRAM does matter, especially when you have web browser with multiple tabs opened at the same time. Sublime Text or Notepad++ are powerful, yet much more lightweight than Zed. Not to mention Vim/Emacs.