Zed (Editor) Has Suddenly Become Terrible, IMHO

10 points

a year ago

The code editor, Zed (https://zed.dev) started out as the best thing since the heyday of Sublime Text. Over the past 3 months, it's become the worst piece of software I've ever used. I'm running a 2019 late MacBook Pro, so not the latest and greatest, but, we're talking about a code editor, not 3D modeling software. And, I don't use any LLM features.

Zed often consumes so much CPU that my fan runs on full blast. It freezes up, the editor features (like Python checking based on pylsp, etc.) often don't even work any more (hover over a red squiggly and the message is about something that was fixed 5 minutes prior). There are countless little bugs that I encounter, especially WRT the search features; bugs so bad that I have to end the app and start over.

How can a software be so good and so fast, with a tremendous UX, and then become hot garbage in a single quarter?

Were they bought or something? Does anyone know, did they maybe hire too many junior devs, etc.?

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