Post by Aslak Raanes

I periodically feel the urge to get away from VSCode, so I've played around with Zed lately. It is nice and fast, but it lacks extensions I need, and is a little awkward to use. Then there's Neovim. I've set up a lot of configs for it to get it to a place where it is quite usable, but it is so *very* different. I may just keep it for those times I need a remote session.

I've come to realise that at my age, switching IDE is a bigger commitment than switching jobs. 😅

#Code #VSCode #Zed #Neovim

After setting up Catppuccin Mocha for Zed, I did switch to the same theme in VSCode though. I think that may be as much change as I can handle.

After all, for a developer, there is no single thing you spend more time in your life looking at than your code editor. Even if I'm no longer primarily a developer, I still spend a lot of time in front of it.

@veronica I come from Emacs (which was fine for C, PHP and Python stuff 10+ years ago). Then had a longer flirt with Eclipse as I got into C++ before landing on vscodium. Both of them with Emacs "mode" enabled. The "Awesome Emacs" addon is definitely one of the best ones.

I do have Zed high up on the list to check out for real. But,yeah, it's really hard to switch... So much emotions attached to the editor ...

@dazo What bothers me the most with VSCode, aside from the whole Electron bloatware thing which is a rant for another time, is that they went from thorough monthly releases to weekly slopware releases, and almost exclusively focus on AI features, which I have anyway turned off.

Zed is also highly AI focused, but I like that it is easy to configure with local models if I ever wanted to. (I really dislike AI auto-complete. It's easily the most annoying feature ever added to IDEs.)