There’s a fast new code editor in town 

Time to upgrade my monitor to utilize that sweet 120 FPS coding 😂.

YEEESSSSS!!! editor in 120 fps! exactly what i was missing all these years

The "we are here" at 1:13 Is somewhere near Fortaleza Canyon in Cambará do Sul southern Brazil for anyone wondering.

You had me until "A Mac only editor..." and sadly then the video was over. Well played sir.

Now the natural next step is to create another text editor in Zig

launches only on mac "Zed's dead baby"

Extensions will probably be based on wasm to allow maximum range of languages to be written in and not only rust. Remember them talking about it in some podcast

Atom via GitHub was also acquired by Microsoft when it purchased GitHub in 2018, six years ago. And, not surprisingly, Microsoft after first stating Atom development would continue, and it did, until it was halted by Microsoft in June 2022.

When I used Atom, it made Visual Studio seem fast. Hard to believe the same people made a fast editor

Zed is pretty great. The performance is way faster than vscode with almost instant diagnostics. Though it lacks features such as intuitive config menus, Extensions/Plugins support, Custom themes, Etc. But it does have support for most languages out of the box.

I've been using it as my main code editor for a little over a week now. It's pretty good. Still missing some pretty critical things for me, though, like seeing what exactly I've changed (compared to the latest commit).

This video was supposed to make me migrate to Zed but it actually made me discover Cursor and switch instantly from VSC, thanks for helping me think less and earn more in less time 👌

Another one of those neat looking code editors that will soon be forgotten

The performance and minimal design got me hooked. Would've definitely tried it if it was on windows.

I've tried it and it works really well. It's indeed very minimal. One of the things I really liked was the "onboarding" you get to pick a theme, setup a few things but most importantly choose keyboard shortcuts. You can do intelliJ, vscode and other shortcuts. So you'll feel right at home using the same shortcuts. Missing features for me: Git, seeing your git changes visually, a diff, staging unstaging etc the basic like vscode had. Seeing your current branc name Stuff like git blame file icon (there are file icons atm but they are again super minimal an a bit too minimal for me, I want some more color so I can easily see what kind of file it is.) If they would add at least the above features, I will probably switch from vscode.

The memes per second ratio on videos like these is outstanding.

But can it run vimscript?

it has the potential to be big. But there are too many bugs atm for me to actually replace my main editor

The fact that it's only available for mac outweighs all of its advantages. Hopefully, I'll remember to check it out once it becomes available for the platforms I use.

Interesting take on the evolution of text editors and the role of AI. Zed presents a lot of potential. However, I agree with the limitations you pointed out such as its availability only on Mac OS, and the lack of extensibility.

Damn, i watched the full video only to know there's no extensions and mac only. Well played, fireship!

They released Extension support right after you published this, ZED IDE is 🔥

Tried it out today and it's neat. Copilot integration is quick and note intuitive than my lunarcim setup. Shame some basic stuff is broke, like the eslint output window bot opening when you get an error, which is on every keystroke sometimes.

i like how in the performance metrics, sublime text is also a very close 2nd or even first makes me happy about using it :^)

Unsurprising that none of the performance metrics compare to Vim or Neovim since any other editor would get smoked by either of them

As a +15 year software engineer myself, I don't understand all this focus on speed. If your work productivity depends on a few milliseconds of difference in inserting characters into your editor, I really wouldn't want to be you. Good software devs are not measured by their code writing speed.

I hope they also have a feature where you can connect it to your own llm

With that image of the canyon in southern Brazil, you made me emotional for various reasons.

"Nothing lasts forever" Contemplate my perfect nvim setup

if it can view very large text files and has a hex editor, im sold

Been using Zed since it was a closed beta, I love how snappy it is. Full featured without the bloat, waiting for the Windows build!

I used it. Since I am working in Java, it doesn't have much support but it's lightning fast. And do use Warp terminal by same company

This is not the only video that meme's "VS Code Killer" but until they support Windows and Linux it definitely will never be a VS Code killer. I think a lot of people just quit looking when they hear it's Mac only. Good thing you mentioned it at the end, that was a 10x move on your part!!!

So when will the Helix-editor video dropping? Maybe not as loud of a fan base but a steady growing one. 28k github stars on the repo already.

I learned on Atom and loved teletype for working on school projects together.

The final image of this video is an amazing reference.

notepad++ remains my main editor, I've never really needed more

Meanwhile the latest Sublime Text has been released today (Dev build) and it’s running circles around Zed. Feature and speed wise.

when fireship uploads , i feel happy , i am watching his previous videos for getting knowledge

Zed is fast and pretty workable with typescript! Now I can dive in without waiting 10s or refusing in VScode. Our repo is large and I have to restart vscode frequently to just make it work

I like how the benchmarks omit Neovim

still gonna use emacs

Update: It looks like you can build it from source relatively easy for linux now... I still can't find anything about plugins, though.

I've always wanted to code at 3wpm at 120fps!

Zed sucks. Sorry, but editors without multi platform support by default just sucks. Late support = less unified experience. I don't think their future Linux and Windows builds will have same features and performance as macOS. Also without extensibility you cannot gain market share from your biggest competitor, VSCode. They just focused on some second order stuff but not actual features. I don't think the plugin support will be rich as VS Code unless they don't have multi platform support. Devs thougth their product will be popular with macOS only support. Congrats you created another "VS Code killer" that will be forgotten with in couple months.

This video should have started by listing the supported platforms.

I need a copilot but for writing PRs

You had me on "Hi mom", sorry for your loss but am happy you haven't forgot her. still the best easter eggs out there

I am in love with this IDE. It's so fast and lightweight.

The image of the "plateau" is from Fortaleza national park in southern Brazil.

good IDEs were long time ago, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C 2.0, Borland C++ 3.1 (build with Turbo Vision), later MS Visual Studio, Eclipse etc. ...

I legitimately like Zed. I recently found the Arc browser and almost accidentally switched to it. After years of using Safari (mostly for energy efficiency on my laptop), jumping into Arc felt very natural. I think it took maybe an hour of test driving to feel confident making a switch. I never looked back. Zed was exactly the same. Everything is clean, trim, snappy, and mostly does exactly what I need without fluff. I can't wait to see where it goes. I'd like to make a full switch, but the lack of extensions is preventing it so far. We'll get there, though.

It's like sublime text with a pre-installed AI package, running only on macos and without package control - am I missing something?

Seeing the Hi Mom made me remember, hope you are doing well @Fireship ...

Sublime Text still does more than what i need for a text editor. For actual coding Jetbrains can not be beat.

Nice Pulp Fiction reference there 👍 0:22

Talking about AGI and the threat of it, it the best way for them to keep attention

I wonder how/if it will affect the people writing accelerate code(like deep learning) and running it on GPU while zed is running

Can't wait when the Marsellus Editor comes out.

It's fantastically fast but I still have to keep VScode and JetBrains on standby for specific plugins and refactoring features. Zed has been my primary editor for a couple weeks now and I don't want to go back to the slugs

As of yesterday, 21st of February, they have officially released support for extensions.

"it's not a motorcycle baby, it's a chopper"

What mono font is used in the IDE, you can see it clearly around 3:05

Anyone used Brackets? It had(or still has) a built-in server. I don't remember any other editor doing this at that time.

“Not extensible”. Does that mean i cant have syntax highlitghing for things like prisma, graphql, etc? Or is that something else? In VS Code, i use “extensions” for syntaxt highlighting of different filetypes

This is old news it was out on Mac os last year I thought you were gonna make a video about Z being released on windows or lyrics that's 4 minutes of my life I'm never getting back thank you sir.

“Not extensible” should be the first statement in this video and probably the last.

Does these AI code assistants model your code and send that data back to the AI provider? Most of my code is on GitHub, but during the scan to better help with my code, is it sending a copy back for modeling?

I always look for the "Hi Mom" easter eggs. I love that your mom watches all of your videos.

Can you use whatever other model with an OpenAI-compatible API? Like using Oobabooga's text generation webui or Kobold?

I have build Zed for Windows and this thing took 13 min to compile what a fast compiler

Well, I run it on Linux Debian 12. Support is ongoing by great devs on their free time. For now It displays and most buttons crash the interface. Each day there is less bugs.

By the time its available on Linux and Windows, VS Code will already have the main features of Zed.

Keep it crazy, Jeff, keep it crazy. All the best, brother 💪

It support extension yesterday

Awesome, this IDE looks cool, ill check it out Mac only💀

i think we need a good visual code editor for frontend, recently i have tried Godot and i felt like what about a code editor just like Godot interface for React? maybe if i have time i will give it a try

Where can we see output in Zed code editor?

The helix editor is also cool

That outro music always kicks off a Barry White ear-worm. ("My first, my last, my everything...") - You're welcome. ;)

Except slow launching (like Rust compiling time) for me on Apple M1, rest is almost perfect. I like it. Would be nice to have auto theme selection based on system theme which is also automated base on day time.

jetbrains webstorm will forever be my special angel.

Well that's the push I needed, off to the Infantry we ride!

I feel you. Before Neovim, I thought the same.

will it be available n windows soon?

running it right now in arch linux

could you share with us how you write so entertaining scripts?

i love atom, i still use it sometimes for old times sake:)

The Tarantino ref bought me lmao

Not available on Windows? Should've put that at the beginning

Zed is DOA baby without plugins. Perhaps it can be compatible with VSCode as an option next to Rust plugins?

It would be nice to have finished Linux 🐧 or Windows 🪟 versions of Zed .

Look I dont know if im getting it, but someone explain me wtf frame rate to do with a code editer?

is it only for mac os?

Awesome content BOI!!

It killed my enthusiasm when he said that it's currently only available on Mac OS.

Lets go. AI Fireship voice in this video

Just tried it, it's amazing 10/10. Great design and finally I don't have 10k buttons and functions I don't need nor understand like in VS code.

i am using cursor ai IDE with ai features. i can use also vscode extension as well

My roommate loves Zed, but he uses Mac only, I use all three (Mac, Windows, and Linux) interchangeably and so I am going to continue to use VS code until Zed comes out on those platforms