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• KDE is now my favorite desktop

  One thing I'm happy with in KDE is that the menu is still a thing. At least there is an option in many apps, such as the file manager, Dolphin to show the menu. Unlike Gnome which is very inconsistent about hamburger menus and open buttons, KDE just sticks to the old-fashioned menu bar. In this it is like MacOS, (although if you don't use a Mac you mightn't be aware of the universality of the main menu, because... - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• The Helix Text Editor

  You are looking for https://zed.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• Stop Treating Your Blade Files Like Trash Bins. Give Them Contracts And Structure

  This step does not require any code setup but requires installing plugin/extension in your IDE. I use VS Code for Laravel development. I found an excellent extension PHP Tools by DevSense for VS Code which I used to use in Visual Studio when working with .Net framework. This extension is available for Cursor, Zed ,Visual Studio and VS Code. But if you are using a different editor you need to find similar extension. - Source: dev.to / 21 days ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)

  Zed is a company for developers, by developers. All 3 of our founders have spent years in the trenches writing software and still do it almost every single day. We know the only way to build the world's best code editor is by equipping every single member of the team to do the best work of their career. We've raised $42M to support our ultimate vision, a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations... - Source: Hacker News / 30 days ago

• Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

  Watch the video on https://zed.dev/, apparently it's really good at quickly cycling through open documents at 120Hz while still seeing every individual tab. Probably something people asked for at some point. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

  Spiritual successor to Sublime Text. They’ve been doing a lot of AI stuff but originally just focused on speed. https://zed.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

  This is next and not Electron-based: https://zed.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• zs: One Command to Rule Your Zed Setup

  Every time I switched projects in Zed, I found myself:. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Positron – A next-generation data science IDE

  CodeMirror is amazing these days, super lightweight compared to Monaco, and pretty extensible: https://codemirror.net/ For something non-browser, I’m currently using Zed and it’s pretty good: https://zed.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• AI Coding Agents Are Removing Programming Language Barriers

  > In which world is Rust fantastic for writing desktop applications? Where are the mature Rust UI frameworks? Rust has come a remarkably long way [1] ! It's better than any language that isn't C/C++. We have bindings to all of the major UI toolkits, plus a lot of native toolkits. You can also use Electron/Tauri for Javascript, or Dioxus for something more performant. Egui is also really nice for dev tools. > What... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)

  Zed Industries | North America, South America, Europe REMOTE | https://zed.dev/ Zed is a company for developers, by developers. All 3 of our founders have spent years in the trenches writing software and still do it almost every single day. We know the only way to build the world's best code editor is by equipping every single member of the team to do the best work of their career. 1. Software Designer -... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• So, tech salaries stopped climbing now what? we are not hiring right now, the new normal.

  Zed the next-gen collaborative IDE. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Void: Open-Source Cursor Alternative

  > and there is no open source full IDE alternative (besides Void). And Zed: https://zed.dev Yesterday on the front page of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43912844. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• What's Happening in Developer Tools? (OpenAI Just Bought Windsurf for $3B)

  There are other AI agents and text editors out there, including Replit, Zed, and many others, but if you say AI text editor at the moment, most people will think of Cursor/Windsurf/VSCode. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)

  Zed is a company for developers, by developers. All 3 of our founders have spent years in the trenches writing software and still do it almost every single day. We know the only way to build the world's best code editor is by equipping every single member of the team to do the best work of their career. 1. AI Rust Engineer - https://zed.dev/jobs/ai-engineer. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

  Have you compared helix to zed (https://zed.dev/)? I want something VSCode-ish, could never really get used to vim myself. But definitely don't want something built on Electron, it's too bloated. Zed and Helix are both built in Rust without Electron, which is already promising. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• I Use Kate Editor

  TIL about Kate editor, but after 30 years of just using vi in a terminal (Unix, Mac, even Windows in cmd.exe) I switched to Zed editor (https://zed.dev). I had tried other editors in the past, but quickly fell back to vi/vim after a few hours or days, for various reasons. Been using Zed for a couple of months now and no plans to go back. It also uses LSPs, but whenever I connect to some (Linux) dev host from Zed... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Handle remote tool calling with Model Context Protocol

  MCP hosts MCP hosts handle communication between the servers and client, for example, in the form of a chat application or IDE. Popular hosts include Claude Desktop, Zed, and Sourcegraph Cody. See MCP: Example clients for the complete list of supported hosts/clients. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Exploring Zed: The Lightning-Fast Code Editor Built in Rust

  It is currently available for macOS and Linux, with Windows support on the roadmap. You can download it directly from zed.dev or install it via your package manager. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• What Does a Developer Advocate Do?

  And there a host of VC-funded startups focused on AI integration such as Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, and many more. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Best AI Code Editors in 2025

  Finally, an editor that isn't another VS Code fork! Zed is something different - a blazing fast editor built from the ground up in Rust, focused on raw performance and clean design. They were a bit late to the AI party, only launching their AI features in August 2024, and are still catching up with features that other editors have had for a while. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago