Why “zed” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
It is a complete choice, just like how open source is. Zed is doing the same thing. [0] The alternative is leetcode hards in person with rounds of in person interviews. [0] http…
by rvz · Sep 27, 2026
Guide coding is more forgiving because the diffs are small enough that you can just try something and veto it if it's not good. Qwen 3.6 a3b makes more mistakes than DeepSeek bu…
by apatheticonion · Sep 27, 2026
Was happy to see someone forked Zed into "Gram". It was very disappointing to see every code editor go the route of being more than a code editor or even full IDE. I can literal…
by SamInTheShell · Sep 27, 2026
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interf…
by sp1nningaway · Sep 25, 2026
Vim is great. But Zed is more like VSCode in usage. And more lightweight too. Not as lightweight as vim tho :)
by RonanSoleste · Sep 25, 2026
As Zed said, it was fastcgi. But yeah, Rails 1.x got a lot of hype before it had a functional application server.
by flomo · Sep 25, 2026
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