Zed

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Fable 5 (with Opus 5 as backup) on Zed with a $200 Max plan has been a sea change for me. Carefully alternating planning and auto modes, I manage all these projects at once using Zed's Threads Sidebar”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-08-14

• “I've also customized Zed's UI to optimize for reading and reviewing code”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “try Zed with GitHub Copilot. I've been using it this week with better results than I ever had with Cursor”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “completely threw out the accept/reject workflow since Codex is no longer directly integrated into zed anymore”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-01

• “Zed, however, works centrally on your git repo and tracks the worktrees so you can bounce around your work in a single window”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “an open Zed window can add latency to all my other apps even while idle in the background”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “an open Zed window can add latency to all my other apps even while idle in the background. Things like this are so maddening.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “Zed has some issues around Podman and SELinux with an open PR”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “Zed's Text Threads before they obnoxiously and inexplicably removed what, to me, was their most powerful and distinguishing feature”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “Zed if I'm really inclined to view any files. But basically it's my text file viewer because it's marginally faster than the modern Notepad”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “Zed is pretty good, though I saw some issues with their LSP Edits and found that connecting them to OpenCode through ACP worked better, still a cool editor”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “I was frustrated that Zed, the editor with the entire premise of being used for AI stuff like this, only supports putting permissions for specific paths in the user-wide settings file; project-level settings files exist, but for reasons I can't fathom, they explicitly don't support any of the permissions settings for agents.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “now preffer zed, which replaced my use of vscodium and sublimetext in 1 swoop”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “I tried vim mode in Zed — it's a joke. Immediately uninstalled”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “I can use Zed, or VSCode, and I'm 90% of the way there. Install (or configure) the Evil mode equivalent, and I'm happy.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-14

• “I got lost. Every IDE is different. I felt very restricted. This is not the problem of Zed (or any IDE) but this is how they are compared to hand-crafted Neovim installation. They just can't compare.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-30

• “With Zed all the high quality features are OOTB. For example, with Python they run some high quality linters out of the box, I don't even have to think about setting anything up, I don't even thing I have installed a single plugin for Zed outside of themes. It's a very batteries included text editor.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “Zed chews up a couple of gigs at most, and rarely uses much CPU”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “Zed makes 800 syscalls per second when completely idle and unfocused”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “Writing C in Zed is a wonderful experience. The LSPs surface errors in an manner that is very easy to view and edit.”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “Zed is my favorite by far, probably because of the latency. It is an intangible feeling that just clicked immediately for me.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “I gave others (VSCode and Zed) good weeks and months of configuring them to my liking and using them exlusively, and always returned to Sublime.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “really good success with LMStudio and GLM 4.7 Flash and the Zed editor which has a baked in integration with LMStudio. I am able to one-shot whole projects this way, and it seems to be constantly improving”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-03

• “switching to Zed editor and getting its agent stuff just seamlessly integrated”

  POSITIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-03-04

• “Zed Agent mode / Cursor agent mode / Claude code (early 2026): Finally something where I can like describe the architecture and requirements of a feature, let it code, review that code, give it written instructions on how to clean it up / refactor / missing tests, and iterate.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-27