u/Interesting_Bill2817

Can anyone that has taken CSE 131 in the past share the lecture materials with me (podcasts or lecture slides)? Thanks.

Hello Guys,

I've been following Zed for a while and since their announcement of 1.0 I thought of giving it one more try. Here's how it went:

Some positives:

- Support for multiple AI agents and harnesses such as Cursor and Claude Code is amazing

- The UI is miles better than VSCode (VSCode gives off the Microsoft internal tool vibes which I'm not a huge fan of)

- Zed is incredibly fast

- Zed is much more customisable than VSCode

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- The Git integration is amazing as well

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Some negatives:

- The command palette is too barebones, I should be able to do everything from my command palette just with a fuzzy search

- My #1, actually #0, gripe with Zed has been it's poor remote server functionality and it seems like that hasn't been fixed at all.

- I can't quickly fuzzy search for all my remotes.

- Once I open a remote, pressing Cmd + o still asks for opening a local folder instead of remote folder which is a humongous productivity slump.

- Zed still saves the folders for all the remotes in the remotes category which is fine but it still has duplicates when you open the same remote folder again.

- The language server functionality is poor, I can't quickly cmd + shift + p to select a python interpreter, and working with multiple conda environments, that's a huge productivity slump.

- Zed still manages a huge number of settings through their config json file which is fine but all of them should be available from the command panel (cmd + shift + p) with fuzzy searching enabled.

- The breadcrumb follows the UI font size when it should really follow the buffer font size since the breadcrumb is code in monospaced font.

- Devcontainers

- Anti aliasing seems to poor compared to VSCode

Unfortunately, since I heavily use remote development, these are deal breakers for me. They seem like minor nitpicks but they come in the way of a productive flow rather than assisting my flow. VSCode (and Cursor for that matter) despite being uglier and bloated never comes in the way of being productive and has been one of the most reliable tools in my arsenal (even more than SSH has been!). I will still be on the lookout for future updates. Thanks.