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Working with Zed for a week

Ben Selby on February 01, 2024

I took Zed for a spin this week, and this post covers what I noticed whilst using it as my day-to-day editor. I love it, and I'm probably going to...
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Vin Cooper

interesting observations! Thank you

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Alex Collins

Lack of a debugger is pretty annoying in Zed. Moreover the lack of ability to run code and tests is annoying feature that will hobble adoption.

You do now have access to agents (including Copilot Chat).

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Ben Selby

The Zed Debugger is now out there, and it's not that bad actually. I struggled with the different views for the different threads (In Django at least). A little painpoint, but better than no debugger at all!

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Alex Collins

I saw this too. I’ve not actually tried it yet, so perhaps its not as important to me as I thought!