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		mejthemage on Jan 25, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neo... Reading the article, I thought every positive mentioned is also in VS Code, but VS Code has a larger more mature community. What drew you to Zed over VS Code?

mirawelner on Jan 25, 2025 [–]

VSCode is currently more complete than Zed but Zed is more configurable. Also I suspect that Zed will improve rapidly and VSCode is mostly already plateaued due to Zed being new and open source and VSCode being old and made by Microsoft.

Also I’m not immune to hype I suppose

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