Zed 1.0 | Hacker News

kept by eddie may 01

Zed 1.0 launches with mixed feedback: praised for performance but criticized for missing features, Linux issues, and lack of accessibility support.

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it
A programmer describes building and daily-driving his own text editor after dissatisfaction with existing options, finding joy in crafting a personally tailored tool.
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The Productivity Mirage / frantic.im
The author learned that programming productivity stems from problem focus and intuition, not from elaborate editor setups, after observing a prolific engineer using minimal tools.
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Software Is Made Between Commits — Zed's Blog
Zed is building DeltaDB, a version-control system that records every edit alongside the agent conversation that produced it, instead of relying on discrete commits.
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MCP Server | AppSignal
AppSignal's MCP server integrates with AI coding tools to deliver real-time performance insights, error tracking, and debugging support directly within developers' editors.
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What are you doing this week?
A developer finds that large coding agents like Opus 4.7 harm the programmer's mental model, preferring smaller models and old-style FIM autocompletion.
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